Complete Commonwealth Regional Winners
The regional winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize were
announced, with the overall winners to be selected on May 18:
Africa
Best Book: Karen King-Aribisala, The Hangman's Game
Best First Book: Sade Adeniran, Imagine This
Canada and
Caribbean
Best Book: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
Best First Book: CS Richardson, The End of the Alphabet
Europe and South
Asia
Best Book: Indra Sinha, Animal's People
Best First Book: Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age
South East Asia
and South Pacific
Best Book: Steven Carroll, The Time We Have Taken
Best First Book: Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings
Personnel News
Suzanne O'Neill will join Crown as a senior editor at the end of March,
reporting to editorial director Kris Kiser. She has been at Atria for
eight years.
At Penguin Classics in the UK, Alexis Kirschbaum joins the unit next
week as senior commissioning editor, reporting to Adam Freudenheim,
Penguin Classics and Reference publisher. Kirschbaum was at Peter Lang
Publishers.
Riggio Still Buying
Another week, another nearly $48 million of Barnes & Stock for
chairman Len Riggio, who filed with the SEC to note purchases of
another 420,000 shares on Monday through Wednesday.
Schwartz to Close One of Five Stores
Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops is closing one of their two Milwaukee
stores, based in the Bay View neighborhood. President and
owner Carol Grossmeyer tells the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, "It was a
difficult decision. It is sad. We're all sad. But it's the right
decision at the same time. Sales were on a downward trend."
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