Barnes & Noble Inc. announced the the winners of the 14th annual Discover Great New Writers Awards for fiction and nonfiction. The brief story collection
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain (Ecco) won the fiction award. The nonfction award went to The Last Season by Eric Blehm(HarperCollins). Each writer was awarded a cash prize of $10,000, and a full year of additional marketing and advertising support.
Second place was awarded to Turkish writer O. Z. Livaneli’s novel, Bliss (St. Martin’s Press) for fiction and to Daniel Mendelsohn?s memoir, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins), for nonfiction. Each second place winner received $5,000. Sam Savage’s first novel, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife (Coffee House Press), and Marilyn Johnson’s exploration of
The judges for the fiction awards were Mohsin Hamid, the author of the novel Moth Smoke, and an upcoming second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Lily King, the author of The English Teacher, whose first novel, The Pleasing Hour, won the Discover Award in 1999; and Marcus Stevens, the author of the novels The Curve of the World and Useful Girl.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Posted in Book Publishing News
Permalink | Recent Headlines | Our News Feeds
Original post by ReadersRead.com Book Blog
