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2009 Booker Winner

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:27:56 +1100

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the £50,000 2009 Booker Prize.
Mantel, 57, is a seasoned novelist much championed by literary editors who has been shortlisted for the Orange prize and the Commonwealth prize for fiction. Her book was the hottest favorite in the 40-year history of the Man Booker Prize and edged out a strong field winning the secret ballot by three votes to two.

Booker Shortlist

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:18:42 +1000

J.M. Coetzee, AS Byatt and Sarah Waters have all made the cut for the 2009 Booker Prize in the strongest line-up for years. Winners 8th October.

Byatt, AS, The Children's Book - Coetzee, J M, Summertime -Mantel, Hilary, Wolf Hall, - Foulds, Adam, The Quickening Maze - ,Waters, Sarah, The Little Stranger, - Mawer, Simon, The Glass Room,

Plethora of Aussie Award Winners

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:06:35 +1000

Victorian Premiers, Ned Kelly, inaugural John Button and Sisters in Crime, Davitt's. Breathless we are. Must be spring Down Under.

Guardian First Book Longlist

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:16:32 +1000

Britain's eclectic Guardian First Book Award has released the 2009 longlist of debut authors. Super standard as always.

Ned Kelly Shorts

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:18:46 +1000

The Australia Crime Writers', Ned Kelly Awards, affectionately known as the 'Neddies' have issued their 2009 lists.
Peter Corris is in the running in the Fiction category with the latest Clive Hardy novel, Deep Water.

James Tait Black Winners

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:08:25 +1000

Britain's oldest literary prize has posted it's 2009 winners. Sebstain Barry's, The Secret Scripture won the fiction category. Michael Holroyd the Biography category with A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families

Children's Book Council of Australia Winners

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:57:42 +1000

Australia's peak children's book organisation, the CBCA, has issued it's 2009 winners.

Winner Younger Readers Perry Angel's Suitcase (Kingdom of Silk) - Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen Michael King Winner Early Childhood How to Heal a Broken Wing, Bob Graham. Winner Picture Book of the Year Collecting Colour, Kylie Dunstan Winner Eve Pownall Award for Information Book of the Year Alive in the Death Zone: Mount Everest Survival, Lincoln Hall. Winner Older Readers Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan .

UK Booktrusted Early Book Awards Shortlists

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:14:39 +1000

One of the world's leading book awards for young children. Prizes are given across three categories. The 2009 shortlists are out for: • the best book for babies under one year old • the best book for pre-school children, up to five years of age • an award for the best emerging illustrator.
Full details Literary Awards UK

Hugo Science Fiction

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:46:35 +1000

The Hugo Award is awarded by the current members of the World Science Fiction Convention. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman has won the 2009 Novel category

Full list of winners all categories

Victorian Premier's Shorts

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:19:00 +1000

Australia's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards have issued their 2009 shortlists across 11 categories with AUD $195,000 up for grabs.

Few surprises in the Fiction category with more interest elsewhere, particularly in a number of the unique award genres that are on offer .

Carnegie Greenway Winners

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:51:25 +1000

The UK's leading children book awards the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, have posted their 2009 winners.
Siobhan Dowd's, Bog Child took out the former and Catherine Rayner's Harris Finds His Feet the latter.

Aussie Book Industry Awards

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:02:20 +1000

The Australian equivalent of the Galaxy British Book Awards, the ABIAs, have made their 2009 choices. 18 category winners, representing the best of Australia's literary and publishing talent , have been duly rewarded. Commonwealth Prize winner, Christos Tsiolkas, won the main prize for The Slap. Full results Literary Awards Australia.

Scottish Book of the Year

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:53:19 +1000

James Kelman has achieved the Scottish Book Awards Grand Slam winning every local major on offer in 2009. His Kieron Smith, Boy, can now add the £25,000 Scottish Arts Council Scottish Book of the Year to the list. Excellent.
Now to win one outside the country?

Wales Book of the Year

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:32:20 +1000

Deborah Kay Davies has won the £10,000 Wales Book of the Year 2009 for her debut collection of short stories Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful published by Parthian. The two runners-up were each awarded £1,000: Gee Williams for Blood etc. (Parthian) and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch for Not in these Shoes (Picador). The winner of the Welsh-language award, who also received a £10,000 prize, was William Owen Roberts for his book Petrograd (Cyhoeddiadau Bardda)

Winner Miles Franklin Literary Prize - Tim Winton

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:00:24 +1000

Tim Winton has won Australia's leading literary prize Breath. Mr. W. wasn't at the gala presention as he doesn't do ceremonies. The cheque for AU$42,000 is in the mail. Should keep him in surfboard wax for a while.

Dublin International Winner

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:47:47 +1000

U.S. author Michael Thomas has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, collecting 100,000 euros in what is billed as the world’s richest prize for a single work of fiction. Thomas was honored at a reception at Dublin’s Mansion House for Man Gone Down, about a once-promising Harvard student who is now broke and trying to raise money to keep his family together.

ABIA Shorts- Australian Book Industry Awards

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:19:44 +1000

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have announced their shortlists for the 2009 Awards. The contenders across 18 award categories were chosen by the an academy of booksellers and publishers who voted online in April/May 2009. The cream of Australian authors and illustrators are contenders.

Boston Horn Globe Winners

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:34:29 +1000

The 2009 winners for one of the USA's most highly regarded literary awards for children and young adults literature have been posted.

New Zealand Book Award Finalists

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:57:17 +1000

New Zealand/Aetearoa's most prestigious literary award
, the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, have released their 2009 finalists across eleven categories.
There will be a change of sponsors next year with New Zealand Post taking on responsibility. Pernod Ricard New Zealand (formerly Montana Wines) is ending 13 years of sponsoring the awards at this year's ceremony in the Auckland War Memorial Museum on July 27. So, thanks to Montana for support given done and welcome NZ POST.

NZ Librarians Choice Shortlists

Sat, 30 May 2009 17:06:13 +1000

From stories exploring the lives and ideals of family and communities to the reminiscence of roly-poly pudding the finalists of the LIANZA (Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) Children’s Book Awards are a true celebration of New Zealand writers and illustrators. The family of awards consists of the Esther Glen Award (Fiction), the Russell Clarke Award (Illustration), the Elsie Locke (Nonfiction) and the Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori). The 2009 shortlist have now been released. Full details Book Awards New Zealand Aetearoa

George Washington Prize

Sat, 30 May 2009 09:12:28 +1000

Historian and author Annette Gordon-Reed has won a literary Triple Crown with her remarkable The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, her 798-page exploration of Thomas Jefferson and the family of slaves with whom he became intimately involved. The book has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for History and, yesterday, the $50,000 USD George Washington Book Prize, given annually to the "most important new book about America's founding era." Winning book details and finalists

Booker International Winner

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:30:15 +1000

Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has emerged victorious from a clash of the world's literary giants to win the £60,000 ($96,000USD) Man Booker International prize.

The 77-year-old writer, whose win places her still higher on her ascent to what fellow Canadian Margaret Atwood last year described as an elevation to "international literary sainthood", was picked from line-up including Americans, Evan S. Connell, E.L. Doctorow and Joyce Carol Oates. Alas, not this time Other international contenders included Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, Australia's Peter Carey and the UK's contender, the Booker prize-winning Scottish author James Kelman.

Winner's biography and booklist at Book Awards Online

Desmond Eliot Shorts

Wed, 27 May 2009 08:45:15 +1000

Only in Britain do we bet on the outcome of Literary Awards, those of us who read award listed books are the bookies ideal demographic it seems. Meanwhile, the shortlist of three for the newish Desmond Eliot (for a thought provoking page turner with pizzazz type of award) has the Bookmakers, William Hill, in a bit of a quandary, so tight is the field. The contenders are: Blackmoor by Edward Hogan - 5/4 Favourite. A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi - 7/4 The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn - 2/1 All authors and judges will no doubt have to give urine samples for drug testing. The books, by the way, are all of a fine pedigree. Go you good things. Full book details at Literary Awards UK

NZ Post Children's Winners

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:42:10 +1000

New Zealand/Aetearoa's most prestigious Children and Teen Book Award has released it's winners for 2009 as emerging authors and illustrators battled it out with long-time writing heroes in the nation’s most prestigious children’s book award. Already a bestseller, Kate De Goldi's, The 10PM Question, took out the NZ Post Book of the Year and Young Adult Award. The Were-Nana written by Melinda Szymanik, illustrated by Sarah Nelisiwe Anderson won the Children's Choice Award.
All in all there seven winners and one honour book were recognised at the awards ceremony held at Auckland Museum. Most category winners received $7, 500 with the best first book and the children's choice award receiving $2000 each. Full resultsBook Awards New Zealand

NSW Premier's Winners

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:37:01 +1000

Nam Le's already multi-award winning, The Boat, has won the 2009 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award. Steve Tolz's, A Fraction of the Whole, previously shortlisted for the Booker, won the inaugural People's Choice for Fiction chosen from the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction shortlist. The judges of the Stead and the People of NSW have different tastes it seems with Joan London's, The Good Parents, winning the $40,000 prize. All in all 12 category prizes were awarded including the biennial Translation award. Full results Literary Awards Australia

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winners

Thu, 21 May 2009 12:45:46 +1000

Christos Tsiolkas has won the Best Book prize at the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Awards. Tsiolkas won for his work The Slap, a tale about middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behaviour. Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif won the Best First Award for A Case of Exploding Mangoes, which takes a spin on why a Hercules C130 aircraft crashed on August 17, 1988, killing Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq. The awards, marking the best fictional works from throughout the Commonwealth, were announced at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.

Agatha Winners

Mon, 4 May 2009 12:10:27 +1000

One mystery book fans, the 2009 Agatha winners are now out.

Best Novel The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny for St. Martin’s Press. Best Children’s/Young Adult The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein for Random House. Best Short Story, 'The Night Things Changed', by Dana Cameron for Penguin Group Best Non-Fiction How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past by Kathy Lynn Emerson for Perseverance Press Best First Novel Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just Myst ery by G.M. Malliet for Midnight Ink.

Comment Award Tragic Blog| Agatha summary page Book Awards Online

2009 Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction Award Winner

Fri, 1 May 2009 18:13:05 +1000

A, literary science fiction novel set in the near future in which an old woman, close to death, contemplates her life, Ian R MacLeod's Song of Time(PS Publishing), has won this year's Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction

Winners Ainisfield-Wolf Book Award

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:08:51 +1000

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are an American literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture. The 2009 winners have now been issued.

Details and commentary Award Tragic Blog| and Book Awards Online

Pulitzer, Orange, Miles

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:03:32 +1000

The winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, the short lists for the women only UKOrange Prize for Fiction and Australia's leading fiction award, the Miles Franklin Literary Award shorts have all been published.

UK Muslim Writers Shortlists

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:36:26 +1000

Strong shortlists for both the Fiction and Nonfiction categories have been issued for the 3rd year of the Muslim Writers Award which is certainly gaining quality and momentum. Full lists Literary Awards UK |Award Tragic Blog

Scottish Arts Council Category Winners

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:23:28 +1000

The four category winnners have been declared. One book will go onto win Scottish Book of the Year. We wonder if it will be the fiction winner, the all-conquering Kieron Smith, Boy, by James Kelman. Bets anyone? Full list Literary Awards UK | Comment Award Tragic Blog