Self-published author Sergio de la Pava ran away with a major prize from PEN America for his novel A NAKED SINGULARITY (now published by University of Chicago press). He joins fellow 2013 honorees Katharine Boo and Larry Kramer, among others.
5 days ago
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Do books not exist until they're published by an established house? I suppose movies work the same way...foreign movies don't exist until they're released in the USA. Then they can start winning American awards, too.
Well...it's a gray area. I don't know how the awardees defined it, but most of the big self-published successes that migrated over to publishers had to migrate before they got to be considered. How the industry protects its own?
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