Awards: BolognaRagazzi Winners; Plutarch Longlist

Winners were named for the BolognaRagazzi Award, which showcases "the best books for children and young adults published around the world, acknowledging in particular the quality of their graphic-editorial design, innovation and balance, along with their ability to create a dialogue with young readers." Check out the winners and special mentions here.

A total of 2,349 titles were submitted by 644 publishers from 59 countries and regions around the world. Organizers said the figures "confirm an increase in the number of entries again this year, with books from Bangladesh, Cyprus, Macedonia, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and Venezuela arriving on the juries' tables for the first time."

The BolognaRagazzi Award honors titles in fiction, nonfiction, opera prima (first-time authors), comics and the special category dedicated this year to photography. The jury also awards the New Horizons prize to a work "that stands out for the innovativeness of its publishing product."

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The longlist for the 10th annual Plutarch Award, sponsored by the Biographers International Organization and the only award for biography judged exclusively by biographers. See the list here.

Deirdre David, chair of the committee, said that the books on the longlist "showcase a diversity of subjects, intrepid scholarship, and an admirable illumination of both cultural and political achievement in an historical context. They also offer examples of the skills that enhance the art and craft of biography: how to work around black holes in a subject's life and how to present a fresh portrait of a well-known figure in addition to bringing forth relatively unknown subjects to vivid life. The longlist [books] provide splendid evidence of how to write movingly and creatively about vastly different personalities representing many fields of accomplishment. We are pleased to present biographies about a poet, a novelist, a choreographer, a portrait painter, a civil rights lawyer, an iconic U.S. president, a revolutionary, a U.S. senator, an FBI G-man, and a misunderstood British monarch."

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