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Berkley Author Julie Hyzy Wins Two Awards at the 2009 Boucheron
Berkley Prime Crime author Julie Hyzy has won two awards for her book, State of the Onion: A White House Chef Mystery: the Anthony Award and the Barry Award in the Best Paperback Original category. Both awards were presented this past weekend in Indianapolis at Bouchercon, the largest annual meeting in the world for mystery lovers.
The Barry Awards are named for one of the most beloved ambassadors of mystery fiction, Barry Garner, and are voted on the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures. The Anthony Awards are named for Anthony Boucher, one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America, and are among the most prestigious awards in the world of mystery writers.
Julie Hyzy’s new White House Chef Mystery, Eggsecutive Orders will be out in January 2010 and features the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Penguin Press’ Karl Jacoby Wins Albert J. Beveridge Book Award
Penguin Press author Karl Jacoby has been selected by the American Historical Association as the winner of this year’s Albert J. Beveridge Book Award for his book, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History. The Beveridge Award honors U.S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge (Indiana, 1899 - 1911), a longtime member of the Association and an active supporter of history as both a lawyer and a senator. It is given annually for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present.
Jacoby will be honored at the American History Association’s annual conference on January 8th in San Diego.
Dutton's Harlan Coben Named Favorite Crime Genre Author at the 2009 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards
Dutton’s Harlan Coben was named this week as Britain's ITV3 viewers' favorite crime genre author as part of the 2009 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, sponsored in conjunction with the Crime Writers Association. Coben was chosen out of a pool of five authors by viewers who voted via a six-week long online poll. The awards, which were held this past Wednesday in London, are the longest established literary awards in the UK, and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement. This year, the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2009 will be televised on ITV3 in the UK on Tuesday, October 27th.
Penguin Author Randa Jarrar Named One of Beirut39’s “39 under 40”
Randa Jarrar, author of A Map of Home (Penguin), has been named one of ‘Beirut39’ Project’s “39 under 40,” it was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week. Beirut39 is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the most interesting Arab writers under the age of 40 as a part of the Beirut World Capital festivities 2009/10. Beirut39 follows on from the extremely successful Bogotá39, which the Hay Festival launched in Bogotá in 2007 and which identified many of the outstanding upcoming Latin American talents, including Riverhead’s Junot Díaz and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
Beirut39 will celebrate the best 39 Arab writers under 40 in Beirut in a festival to be held April 15-18th of next year. An anthology featuring the authors' work will be published simultaneously in English and Arabic by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.
To read more about the project, click here.
Learn more about author Randa Jarrar by reading our interview with her and checking out her blog posts on the Penguin Blog.
