Ramona Ausubel’s, NO ONE IS HERE EXECEPT ALL OF US is a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. The award is given by the New York Public Library and honors the works of “dynamic, young, first time-authors” under the age of 35. The winner will be announced on May 20. Riverhead published the book February 2, 2012.

Gavin Corbett’s THIS IS THE WAY is shortlisted for Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2012-13. The award is the largest monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors, and the winner will be announced at the 2013 Listowel Writers’ Week on May 29. Faber and Faber published the book March 5, 2013.

April Bloomfield’s A GIRL AND HER PIG was awarded first place for a cookbook by The Book Industry Guild of New York at their 27th Annual awards show. Ecco published the book April 12, 2012.

Jasper Fforde’s THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER was awarded second place in young adult fiction by The Book Industry Guild of NY at their 27th Annual awards show. Harcourt Children’s Books published the book October 2, 2012.

Morton L. Janklow and Lynn Nesbit were presented with the New York City Literary Honors Award in the category of Literary Life by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on April 23, 2013.

Robert Caro’s THE PASSAGE OF POWER won The Los Angeles Times Book Award for a biography.

Ramona Ausubel is longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story award for her book A GUIDE TO BEING BORN. The award is the single biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories. Riverhead will publish the book May 2, 2013.

Ramona Ausubel is shortlisted for the 2013 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US. The award is given to an outstanding debut novel by a writer who has “invented their own compasses and created characters, plots, and voices to enliven the common hours… this writer has achieved something notable and enduring: art.” Riverhead published the book February 2, 2012.

Robert Caro was named as the winner of the 2013 Mark Lynton History Prize by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, for his book THE PASSAGE OF POWER: THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON. He will be presented with the award, along with other winners and finalists of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, on May 7, 2013 at a ceremony at Columbia University. Knopf published the book May 1, 2012.

Sunjeev Sahota has been named one of Granta’s 20 Best of Young British Novelists. The honor is given every 10 years by the London-based literary magazine, which describes the list as “the future of literature in Britain.” In a short introduction, Salman Rushdie praised Sahota’s work, saying “I read this piece without knowing its title or the writer’s name (both Top Secret at the time) but the talent couldn’t be redacted. There it is on every page, strong, fresh and true. I look forward to reading more.”