Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for August 14, 2013.
Segrio De La Pava and Katherine Boo Among 2013 PEN Literary Award Winners
PEN American Center announced yesterday the winners of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards.
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which is awarded to the author of a debut novel or short story collection, was awarded to Sergio De La Pava for A Naked Singularity. The prize is worth $25,000. The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, worth $10,000, went to Katherine Boo for Behind the Beautiful …
2013 World Fantasy Award Finalists Include N.K. Jemisin, Graham Joyce, and Ursula K. Le Guin
The World Fantasy Award ballot for excellence in the field in 2012 was announced yesterday. In addition to two lifetime achievement award winners, the brilliant Susan Cooper and Tanith Lee, the ballot includes finalists in categories ranging from best anthology to best short story. The nominees in the novel, anthology, and short story category are as follows (you can find the full ballot here):
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YA Wednesday: From Russia with Love
One of our picks for the best YA books of August is a fantastic debut novel, Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Elizabeth Kiem. I have a fascination with the Soviet Union, love spy thrillers, and I'm a sucker for a good fish-out-of-water/coming-of-age story. So it's almost inevitable that I would love Kiem's well-written novel about a young woman whose privileged life in the Soviet …
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