BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang has won the Los Angeles Times Book Awards prize for Young Adult Literature. This title has won so many prizes that we’ve lost count!
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More Kudos for David Thompson!
Australian restaurateur and author (THAI FOOD, THAI STREET FOOD, Penguin Australia) David Thompson’s Nahm restaurant in Bangkok was named as Asia’s best at the San Pellegrino Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014 awards yesterday! (Nahm was already on the list of the world’s 50 best restaurants.) David’s firrst book, THAI FOOD, won the 2003 James Beard Award…
BITTERBLUE hits bestsellers list in Israel!
Kristin Cashore’s third title, BITTERBLUE, after GRACELING and FIRE, has just been published in Israel by Kinneret Zmora Publishers, and it’s already on the bestsellers list! There’s an Israeli Facebook page for the Graceling trilogy: http://www.facebook.com/Sevenkingdoms. And here’s the address for Kristin’s blog in English: http://kristincashore.blogspot.fr/.
The ALA’s List of Thirty Top Titles of 2013 Counts Four from Our Clients!
“Book Links magazine announces the annual annotated Lasting Connections list, considered an essential resource for children’s librarians, school library media specialists and K–8 educators. The list spotlights the editors’ selections of the 30 best 2013 picture books, novels and informational titles for the K-8 classroom, all selected for their natural connections across the curriculum and…
More Kudos for Our Authors!
BINNY FOR SHORT by Hilary McKay is on the Carnegie Medal for Literature longlist for 2014. In 2002 SAFFY’S ANGEL won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award and was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, ALA Notable Book and a School Library Journal Best Book of 2002. Some quotes about Hilary McKay’s writing: “Entrancing” The…
Angoulême Comics Festival Selects Four of Our Authors!
Just back from the press conference for the Angoulême Festival de la Bande Dessinée 2014, France’s most prestigious comics festival. The four books by our authors to be featured at the festival (from 30 January to 2 February 2014) are: In the Sélection Officielle: ANNIE SULLIVAN & HELEN KELLER by Joseph Lambert (Ça et là / Cambourakis)….
Our Clients Are Classy Dressers!
First Second’s Editorial Director, Mark Siegel, with Gene Luen Yang, author of NBA Young People’s Literature finalist titles BOXERS & SAINTS, at the 2013 National Book Awards ceremony in New York last night. (Photo credit: Nancy Crampton for Publishers Weekly, 22/11/2013)
Mike Nicol in Paris
South African thriller writer Mike Nicol (LA DETTE published by Ombres Noires) is in Paris from 19 to 21 November 2013 for events on Tuesday the 19th and Thursday the 21st as part of the ongoing cultural exchange between France and South Africa.
OREGON HILL wins the 2013 Hammett Prize!
Less than two weeks after Permanent Press title DEAD ANYWAY won the 2013 Nero Award, another of their books, OREGON HILL by Howard Owen, has won the prestigious Hammett Prize for 2013. As Kirkus Reviews said of OREGON HILL: This is Southern literature as expected, with a touch of noir, and with a touch of Dennis Lehane’s Mystic…
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 