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Man Booker Short List Announced

The Harvest

Jim Crace's The Harvest and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland have both been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Man Booker Prize is awarded each year to "the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland" and comes with a £50,000 award. The winner will be announced on October 15th, 2013.

National Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Awards

Albert Murray

Random House authors E.L. Doctorow and Maya Angelou have been awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Book Foundation. Doctorow has received the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and Angelou has received the 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Both authors will receive their awards during the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 20th in New York City.

Albert Murray Dies at 97

Albert Murray

Essayist, critic and novelist Albert Murray passed away Monday in his Harlem home at the age of 97. Influential as a critic of "black separatism," Murray was also an accomplished novelist (The Spyglass Tree and The Magic Keys) and memoirist (South to a Very Old Place). Click here to read his full New York Times obituary.

John Hollander Passes Away at 83

John Hollander

Influential and prolific poet John Hollander passed away in Branford, Connecticut over the weekend at the age of 83. The author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, including his most recent collection A Draft of Light (2008), Hollander taught at Yale University, Connecticut College, and Hunter College. His full obituary can be read at the The New York Times.

2013 PEN Literary Award Winners

2013 PEN Literary Award Winners

The 2013 PEN Literary Award Winners have been announced and 3 Random House authors have won! Katherine Boo won the John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Leonard Mlodinow won the E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for Subliminal; Tom Reiss won the Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for The Black Count. The award winners and runners-up will be honored at the 2013 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on Monday, October 21, 2013, at CUNY Graduate Center's Proshansky Auditorium in New York City.

In Brief
The shortlist for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize has been announced and it includes William Dalrymple's Return of a King, Charles Moore's Margaret Thatcher, and Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Gabriele d'Annunzio. One of the most highly regarded prizes for non-fiction books the Samuel Johnson Prize "aims to reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of all non-fiction books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts." This year's winner will be announced November 4th at the annual prize dinner at RIBA. The winner of the prize will receive £20,000.
In a news conference, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced an agreement with the family of Henrietta Lacks that will restrict NIH-financed research on the HeLa genome. Two members of Lacks' family will serve on the HeLa Genome Council, marking the first time tissue donors have had a voice in the process and finally giving the Lacks family a say in how Henrietta's cells are used. To learn more about this landmark announcement for which author Rebecca Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has played such a large role, please read the following articles: The HeLa Genome: An Agreement on Privacy and Access from the NIH, Nature Magazine, and The New York Times.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the short list of books for their 2013 awards. Three Random House LLC titles are on the short list for The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Random House), Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (Random House), and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (Crown). In addition, The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science short list includes The Age of Insight by Eric R. Kandel (Random House). Each award carries a $10,000 prize. Winners will be announced on October 2nd and the authors will be honored at a gala dinner on December 5th in Washington, D.C.

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