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Some Happenings in the Book World

Saturday, April 21, 2007    1 comment

We are pleased to report that The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) took the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. To see the full list of the 2007 Pulitzer winners (you mean there are other books besides fiction?) please visit: http://www.pulitzer.org/

This past week, the shortlist for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was announced. Here they are:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth EstateRachel Cusk Arlington Park) Faber and FaberKiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Chatto & Windus)
Jane Harris The Observations (Faber and Faber)
Anne Tyler Digging to America (Chatto & Windus)

Winners will be announced in London, June 6th

Book Festivals:

The 12th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is upcoming (April 27th) For more info visit: http://www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes/

For those of you in PA, the Philadelphia Book Festival starts tomorrow ( Saturday & Sunday, April 21-22) for more information visit: http://www.philadelphiabookfestival.org/index.htm

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1 comment:

  1. C.J. Darlington12:52 PM, April 21, 2007

    Thanks so much for mentioning the Philly book festival. I didn't know about it! I'm two hours from there and am now planning on going tomorrow to hear Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark. I heard them speak together once before, and it was a hoot!

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