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Karen Russell Wins the NYPL Young Lions Award

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell has been awarded the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award for her novel Swamplandia!. Congratulation, too, to Teju Cole, author of Open City, who had been named one of the five finalists. Now in its twelfth year, the Young Lions Award "recognizes the work of young authors and celebrates their accomplishments publicly, making a difference in their lives as they continue to build their careers" and comes with a $10,000 prize.

Presidential Medal's of Freedom

Toni Morrison

Last week the White House announced that Toni Morrison (author of Beloved and the recently published, Home) and Shimon Peres (Israeli president and author of the biography, Ben-Gurion) will be two of the thirteen people to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Presented to "individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors," this is the nation's highest civilian honor. Presentations will be made to this year's recipients at the White House later this spring.

Clarence Darrow Awarded LA Times Book Prize

Clarence Darrow

John A. Farrell's Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Prizes were announced last Friday, April 20th at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, Farrell's book is the definitive biography of America's legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.

Swamplandia! Named Pulitzer Finalist

Swamplandia

Karen Russell was named as one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In a surprising, but not unprecedented turn of events, the panel decided not to award the Pulitzer to any of this year's finalists. Russell's Swamplandia!, a lush and bravely imagined debut that follows thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree and Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades, has been previously long-listed for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction.

The Buddha in the Attic Wins 2012 PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction

Buddha in the Attic

Please join us in congratulating Julie Otsuka for her selection as the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner. Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic was chosen from among 350 works published in the United States last year and she will be honored at an award ceremony held on May 5th, 2012 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Please click here for a list of our previous PEN/Faulkner Award winners.

In Brief
Aharon Appelfeld has been awarded the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel Blooms of Darkness. The award "is presented to the year's best fiction in translation, and gives £5,000 to the winning author and £5,000 to their translator." Jeffrey M. Green translated Blooms of Darkness as well as another of Appelfeld's novels, Until the Dawn's Light.
Ernest Callenbach, the author of Ectopia, passed away in April at his home in Berkeley California at the age of 83. Originally published in 1975, Callenbach's Utopian novel details the rise of a peaceful and environmentally conscious society that arises in the Pacific Northwest near the end of the twentieth century. His New York Time obituary can be read here.
Robert Reich's newest work, an enhanced eBook original, Beyond Outrage, is now available for download (please note: eBooks cannot be downloaded as examination copies at this time). Reich's three-part extended interview on The Daily Show can be seen here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3.

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