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J.K. Rowling will make an in-person appearance at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 16 for an interview about The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown), her first title for adults. Rowling will be interviewed on stage by Ann Patchett and will take select audience questions. Rowling also will sign copies of her new book for each audience member.
Details about bookseller access to a live webcast of the event will be available from the publisher soon.
Tickets for the event are being sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, starting September 10. Prices range from $44 to $37.
The Center for Fiction [1] has announced the eight debut novels short-listed for its 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize [2]. They are:
The 2012 winner will be announced on December 11 at the Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner in New York City. The winner will receive a $10,000 cash award and the other short-listed authors will receive a $1,000 award.
Fifty ABA member booksellers across the country acted as first-tier readers for the prize, and The Center for Fiction is working with ABA on ways for stores to promote the eight shortlisted novels.
At its December 11 dinner, the Center for Fiction will also present the 2012 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fictionto Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of The New Yorker.
This year’s Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winners, as voted by the bookseller members of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association [3] (MIBA), are:
The awards will be presented on October 4 during the Heartland Fall Forum [4], the combined trade show of MIBA and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, in Minneapolis. The event is open to members who are registered to attend the show. Midwest author Michael Perry (Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and a Road to Roughneck Grace, Harper) will emcee the book awards reception.
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association’s (NAIBA) Books of the Year [5], announced this week, are:
The winners will accept their honors at an Awards Banquet on Saturday, September 29, during the NAIBA Fall Conference [6]at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia.
The Before Columbus Foundation [7] has announced the winners of the 33rd Annual American Book Awards [8], honoring outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions.
The awards will be presented on Sunday, October 7, at a ceremony, open to the public, on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.
The 2012 American Book Award winners are:
USA Today [9] provided a look at “10 highly anticipated movies this season” based on books, which range from classics such as Anna Karenina and Wuthering Heights to the final installment in the Twilight series.
The upcoming movies include:
Links:
[1] http://centerforfiction.org
[2] http://centerforfiction.org/awards/the-flaherty-dunnan-first-novel-prize/
[3] http://midwestbooksellers.org/book-awards/
[4] http://www.heartlandfallforum.org/
[5] http://www.newatlanticbooks.com/book_awards.html
[6] http://www.newatlanticbooks.com/fall_conference.html
[7] http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/
[8] http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABApress2012.pdf
[9] http://www.usatoday.com/USCP/PNI/Features/2012-08-19-PNI0819ae-books-movies_ST_U.htm