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The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award is awarded by the Authors' Club to the most promising first novel of the year, written by a British author and published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. [1]
Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK; Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
First book awards are literary prizes given to novelists for their debut novel or non-fiction writers for their first full length work. These awards are important for new writers to establish themselves in literary markets and gaining critical attention.
Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld FRSL (born 16 June 1980) is an Anglo-Australian author. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2009, and her second novel, All the Birds, Singing, won the Encore Award in 2013 and the Miles Franklin Award in 2014.
Catherine Webb (born 1986) is a British author. Under the pseudonym Kate Griffin , she writes fantasy novels for adults. [ 1 ] As Claire North , she writes science fiction and novels based upon the work of Homer .
The first president of the Authors' Club was the novelist George Meredith; [3] he was followed by Thomas Hardy; [4] who was in turn succeeded by J. M. Barrie. [5] Subsequent presidents included the architectural historian Sir Banister Fletcher , the Anglo-Irish writer, dramatist and poet Lord Dunsany , Compton Mackenzie — author of Whisky ...
Jane Adams (born 1960 in Leicester) is a British writer of psychological thrillers, and has published more than thirty novels. [1]Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995 and received an Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.