Author to speak about publishing

Author to speak about publishing

NORTH CANTON

Douglas MacDougall of Massillon, retired businessman and worldwide traveler, will speak on “How to Get Published” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Community Branch of the Stark County District Library, 11955 Market Ave. N.

The speaker is the author of a series of “What If” novels depicting the significance of great men and their roles in shaping history. His historical novels relate to the premise that history could have been quite different if only for minor alterations of the true facts.

PEN/Faulkner Award

NEW YORK

Sherman Alexie has won the PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction for his short-story collection “War Dances.”

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced that Alexie will receive $15,000 for the prize. His collection touches on everything from parenthood to the Sept. 11 attacks. The prize was established in 1981.

Translation awards

NEW YORK

An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.

Gail Hareven’s novel “The Confessions of Noa Weber” won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction. It was written in Hebrew and translated by Dalya Bilu for Melville House Press.

The poetry prize went to Elena Fanailova’s “The Russian Version.” It was translated by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler and published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

The awards were founded three years ago by Three Percent, a resource for translated works that is based at the University of Rochester. They have no cash prize.

Bancroft Prize

NEW YORK

Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of Columbia University’s prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.

Winners were Linda Gordon for “Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits”; Woody Holton for “Abigail Adams”; and Margaret D. Jacobs for “White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940.” Each will receive $10,000.

Vindicator staff/wire reports