Welcome to American Book Awards. Winners, shortlists and historic results from over eighty US National and State-based literary
awards, with links to over 50 more. We do our best to stay current but are covering nearly 250 international book awards worldwide so sometimes we fall short of the mark! Web links to official sites provided in all cases.
National Book Award 2009
Nov 19 - A novel about life in New York City in the 1970s and a biography of U.S. tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the winnersat the United States 60th annualNational Book.
Colum McCann (left) won the fiction award with Let the Great World Spin published by Random House, while The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles and published by Alfred A. Knopf, won the nonfiction award.
"From 10 ordinary lives he crafts an indelibly hallucinatory portrait of a decaying New York City," the judges said of Irish-born McCann.
Stiles traced Vanderbilt's life from his birth in New York to the creation of his transport empire and family dynasty.
Phillip Hoose won the Young People's Literature award for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The book tells the true story of Colvin, who was a teenager in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama -- nine months before Rosa Parks took the same stand. But instead of being celebrated as Parks was, Colvin was jailed.
"Because of this woman, our lives have changed," said Hoose, as he accepted his award with Colvin by his side
The National Book Award for Poetry was awarded to Keith Waldrop for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, published by University of California Press.
Past National Book Award winners include John Updike, Philip Roth and Ralph Ellison. In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for prizes.
The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation
Oct 12- The American Book Awards, established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation, recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. Everyone's a winner baby, that much is true...... 2009 list
Herta Müller wins 2009 Nobel Prize & $1.4 million
Oct 9- Herta Muller, a German writer born in 1953 in a village in Western Romania, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. MoreMan Booker Prize Winner
7 Oct- London - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the 2009 Booker Prize.| Award Tragic Commentary
Pulitizer Winners
The Fiction Pulitzer was won by Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
History category was won by The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hugos have been given every year since 1955 for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The Graveyard Book
Marilynne Robinson Wins Britain's Leading Prize for Women's Writing 'The Orange'
The 2009 Orange Prize, has been won by American Marilynne Robinson for her novel Home
Man Booker International prize
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) .
Agatha Winners
May 2 - Popular writer, Louis Penny, was one of five category winners of the 2009 Agatha Mystery Book Awards . Full lists.
Edgar Winners
April 30 -The Edgars , the 'Edgars', are named after Edgar Allan Poe the legendary mystery writer. They are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Full Winners List
| LA Times Prizes
-Marilynne Robinson has finally picked-up first prize winning the LA Times Fiction category for Home: A Novel
Nebula 2009 Winners
25th April, Ursula K. Le Guin has won the Novel Category for Powers (Annals of the Western Shore)
2009 Anisfeld-Wolf Winners - dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture. Full Winners List
Children & Teen Book Awards
Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins), The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House) and Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (Clarion) are this year's winners at one of America's leading literary prizes. Full lists
for Children's and Young Adult Literature is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction. Full lists
Golden Kite Winners
The Society Of Children Book Writers and Illustrators - more Related Shortlist
Connecticut's Nutmeg Winners
Over 30,000 Connecticut children voted this year
Caldecott Winner
Beth Krommes , illustrator of the House in the Night written by Susan Marie Swanson and published by Houghton Mifflin Company, is the 2009 Caldecott Medal Winner. Winning and three Honor book details
2009 Newbery Medal Winner
Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book, illustrated by Dave McKean and published by HarperCollins Children's Books, is the 2009 Newbery Medal winner. Winner and four Honor book details
Coretta Scott-King 2009 Winners
Winner: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, is the King Author Book winner. |
King Illustrator Book winner, The Blacker the Berry, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, written by Joyce Carol Thomas.
Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird, written by Zetta Elliott
Michael L. Printz Teen Winner
2009 Printz Award winner: Melina Marchetta, author of Jellicoe Road
The Pura Belpré
Winner 2009 Belpré Illustrator Award: Just in Case illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Never far from a winner's podium, Mo Willims has won the 2009 Giesel with Are You Ready to Play Outside? Winner and Honor book details
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