As the year progresses the frequency of award announcements pick up. This month we find out the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US and the Folio Prize in the UK. It is also the month that the first ever The James Herbert Award for Horror Writing is handed out, and for some light entertainment keep an eye out for the winner of the Diagram Oddest Book Title of the Year.
As usual there is no shortage of festivals and fairs around the world. From Oxford to Liepzig and Beijing to Dubai, literature is being celebrated.
This month’s biggest publishing news is surely the publication of The Buried Giant, the new book by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is 10 years since the publication of Never Let Me Go, so fans are naturally thrilled to finally get their hands on another work by this master storyteller. Meanwhile curiosity abounds about Ishiguro’s apparent move into the realm of fantasy, in a novel complete with ogres and dragons.
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Literary Awards
- 4 March 2015: Scottish children’s book award winners announced
- 4 March 2015: The Story Prize winner announced
- 5 March 2015: Whiting Writers’ Awards Winners announced
- 5 March 2015: Blue Peter Award winner announced
- 23 March 2015: Folio Prize winner awarded
- 12 March 2015: National Book Critics Circle Awards winners awarded
- 19 March 2015: Bookseller YA Book Prize awarded (for the first time)
- 27 March 2015: Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year winner announced
- 25 March 2015: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate announced
- March 2015: The James Herbert Award for Horror Writing winner announced
Fairs & Festivals
- 1 – 31 March 2015: Essex Book Festival
- 3-7 March 2015: Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
- 5-8 March 2015: StAnza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival
- 5-15 March 2015: Huddersfield Literature Festival
- 9-20 March 2015: Hong Kong International Young Readers Festival
- 11-21 March 2015: lit.COLOGNE
- 12-15 March 2015: Liepzig Book Fair
- 13-15 March 2015: King’s Lynn Fiction Festival
- 13-29 March 2015: The Bookworm International Literary Festival (Beijing)
- 18-22 March 2015: Kosmopolis. The Amplified Literature Fest
- 19-20 March 2015: Daunt Books Festival (London)
- 25-29 March 2015: Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
- 20-23 March 2015: Paris Book Fair
- 21-29 March 2015: Oxford Literary Festival
- 20 Mar-2 Apr 2015: Bologna Children’s Book Fair
- 28-30 March 2015: Irrawaddy Literary Festival
- 28 March-8 April 2014: Bangkok International Book Fair
Books Published
- 3 March 2015: The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- 3 March 2015: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
- 3 March 2015: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 3March 2015: Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
- 5 March 2015: The Well by Catherine Chanter
- 5 March 2015: Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- 5 March 2015: The Faithful Couple by A.D. Miller
- 5 March 2015: Aquarium by David Vann
- 10 March 2015: The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
- 10 March 2015: Soil by Jamie Kornegay
- 10 March 2015: The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
- 10 March 2015: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- 12 March 2015: The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer
- 12 March 2015: Before the Fire by Sarah Butler
- 12 March 2015: The Kindness by Polly Samson
- 17 March 2015: The Poser by Jacob Rubin
- 17 March 2015: The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
- 23 March 2015: The Animals by Christian Kiefer:
- 24 March 2015: The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
- 26 March 2015: A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
- 26 March 2015: The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
- 31 March 2015: The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle
- 31 March 2015: At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
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