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Children & Teen Book Awards

June 3, Boston Globe Horn Winners

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.

Two Honor books were also recognized in the categories of Fiction and Poetry, Nosnfiction and Picture Book. Full lists

May 1 -The Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction. The 2009 winning books have just been announced and they are as beautiful as ever. Full lists

UK Children's Carnegie Medal Shortlist

The UK's equivalent of the Newbery has issued it's 2009 Shortlists as has the UK equivalent of the Caldecott Medal, the UK Kate Greenaway Medal Illustrators

Astrid Lindgren Award Winner

The world's richest Children's Literature Prize, the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, has been awarded to the Tamer Institute For Community Education, promoters of reading active on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Astrid Lindgren Award Page

Golden Kite Winners

The Society Of Children Book Writers and Illustrators have announced their category winners for the 2008 calendar year- delicious as always- more Related Shortlist

Connecticut's Nutmeg Winners

Over 30,000 Connecticut children voted this year, so rest assured the winners have been thoroughly sructinized! Details | Award Tragic Comment

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Caldecott Winner

2009 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:

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

John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature 2009 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.

2009 King Illustrator Book winner, The Blacker the Berry, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, written by Joyce Carol Thomas and published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher.

2009 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award.

Shadra Strickland, illustrator of Bird, written by Zetta Elliott, is the Steptoe winner. The book is published by Lee & Low Books. Winners and Honor book details

Michael L. Printz Teen Winner

2009 Printz Award winner: Melina Marchetta, author of Jellicoe Road, The book is published by HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Winner and Honor book details | Comment: Printz Teen Award Winners- Quality Literature With Popular Appeal

The Pura Belpré Award

Winner 2009 Belpré Illustrator Award: Just in Case illustrated by Yuyi Morales, is the winner of the . It is a Neal Porter Book published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership. Winner and Honor book details

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

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

2009 Schneider Family Book Awards

Young children. Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum, written and illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker Middle-school award: Leslie Connor, for Waiting for Normal, Teen award : Jerk, California, written by Jonathan Friesen and published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Winner and Honor book details

Green Earth Book Award...Jane Addams Children's Book Awards......Boston Globe Horn Winners ....Sydney Taylor Winners.....Blue Ribbons for 2009.....Roald Dahl Funny Prize Winner ......Children's Book Council of Australia .... Koala Children's Choice
 

American Book Award News

 

Marilynne Robinson Wins Britain's Leading Prize for Women's Writing 'The Orange'

June 4, 2009- The 2009  Orange Prize, has been won by American  Marilynne Robinson for her novel Home , Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for her novel Gilead, revisits the setting and some of the characters from her previous work, creating in Home, described by the judges, as “a kind, wise, enriching novel, exquisitely crafted.”

International Man Booker Winner- Alice Munro

27th May - 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

Agatha Winners

May 2 - Popular writer, Louis Penny, was one of five category winners of the 2009 Agatha Mystery Book Awards given over the weekend of May 1-3 at the Malice Domestic 'Fan Fun' Conference in Washington D.C. Full lists.

Edgar Winners

April 30 -The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , the 'Edgars', are named after Edgar Allan Poe the legendary mystery writer. They are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year. Full Winners List

2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners

April, 2009 -Not too many surprises for those in the know with the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Literary Prize Winners and Finalists -just sublime quality as per usual.

The Fiction Pulitzer was won by Olive Kitteridge: Fictionolive kittidege , by Elizabeth Strout (Random House). The Biography or Autobiography Pulitzer was awarded to American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Doubleday). The General Nonfiction Pulitzer was won by, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday.

The other literary categories of interest to Book Awards Online were in History, won by The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Familyamazon link , by Annette Gordon-Reed and finally Poetry won by The Shadow of Sirius , by W. S. Merwin. Full Pulitzer lists plus cover art slideshow | Award Tragic comment - Spoof Pulitzer Putsch

LA Times Book Prizes

25th April -Marilynne Robinson has finally picked-up first prize winning the LA Times Fiction category for Home: A Novelhome. Full lists

Nebula Awards 2009 Winners

25th April, Ursula K. Le Guin has won the Novel Category for Powers (Annals of the Western Shore) power at the "Nebs". Full lists

2009 Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award Winners -

April, 2009, Established in 1935, 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. Full Winners List

Who Won What?

Philip K. Dick SF Award Winners -

British Book Awards. Obama & Meyer Winners

Cook Book of the Year Awards

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National Book Awards Winners
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Barrys
MaCavity
Shamus
“5 Under 35” Named by National Book Foundation 
Book Critic Circle Winners
Newbery Medal Winner
Pen Faulkner Winner
Pulitzer Winners
Agatha Mystery Winners
Bram Stoker Horror Winners
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Noble Prize for Literature
Dylan Thomas Prize Winner
British Book Award Winner
Australia-Asia Literary Award Winner
New Zealand Montana Book Award Winners
Canadian Giller Prize Winner
USA State Awards
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Montana Book Award Winner & Honor Books
Florida Book Award Winners
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Connecticut Winners
Colorado 2009 Finalists
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California Book Award Winners
NYC Winners
Ohiania Awards
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Michigan Notables

In brief ... Western Writers' Spur Award Winners......Sana Krasikov Wins 2009 Sami Rohr......Carol Joyce Oates, EL Doctorow & Evan S. Connell in Running for Booker International Prize........ National Book Critics Circle Award Winners ........ Christy Awards Finalists......Bram Stoker Horror Award Finalists..... Hugo Nominees....Edgars Nominees ..... 2009 George Washington Finalists

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