Before you sign: virtual author visits
Practical advice and guidance from the SoA’s advisory team
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£100,000 ‘night of riches’ – announcing the 2019 Society of Authors’ Awards winners
A celebration of inclusivity and ‘the power of story’ as 70-year old debut novelist Anne Youngson joins Rathbones Folio Prize winning poet Raymond Antrobus, Romany writer Damian Le Bas and Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist Nadifa Mohamed in share of Society of Authors’ £100,000 ‘night of riches’.
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The EU Copyright Directive explained
As we reported last month, the Copyright Directive has finally been agreed by the EU.
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SoA highlights poetry and short fiction across social media
How do you make a living from poetry? How do short story writers make any money at all? We discussed all this and more in our week-long dedication to poetry and short fiction as part of celebrations around the 2019 Society of Authors’ Awards, taking place on Monday 17 June.
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Authors recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019
We are delighted that SoA Council members Sarah Waters and Joanna Trollope, and SoA member Theresa Breslin, have been recognised for their services to literature in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The Queen’s Birthday Honours List recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the UK. Joanna Trollope has been awarded a…
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SoA welcomes MPs’ recommendations on authors’ earnings
The Society of Authors has welcomed the findings of the All Party Writers Group’s inquiry into authors’ earnings.
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Tayari Jones wins 2019 Women’s Prize For Fiction
American author Tayari Jones has won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her fourth novel An American Marriage (Oneworld).
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Judith Kerr
We are saddened to hear of the death of Council member Judith Kerr, children’s author and illustrator, who died at the age of 95 on Wednesday 22 May.
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SoA prize recognising debut literary translation opens for entries
The 2019 TA First Translation Prize is now open for entries.
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Before you sign: bank account scammers
Practical advice and guidance from the SoA’s advisory team
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Debut novelist in her 80s shortlisted for Society of Authors’ Awards
International bestselling author Heather Morris, independent bookseller Samuel Fisher and 81-year old debut novelist Norma MacMaster shortlisted for £100,000 Society of Authors’ Awards night.
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Winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
The Society of Authors is delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson (Allen Lane).
