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Booktrust Teen Winner

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:01:32 +1100

Booktrust Teenage Prize The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Amanda Craig, chair of the judging panel commented that "it made the judges laugh, cry and debate its contents with passion; a striking mixture of thriller, science fiction and literary tour de force, it's influenced by writers as diverse as Laurence Sterne and Ursula le Guin, and should appeal to a wide readership."

note: Whoops. Missed this one in the peak literary award frenzy last week. Announced on the 18th November in London- KJP

Malouf Wins $110,000 Australia-Asia

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:38:00 +1100

A ''rich feast of original tales'' by distinguished Australian author David Malouf has won the inaugural $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award. Malouf won the prize, the region's richest literary award, for The Complete Stories, described by the judges as ''effectively a lifetime's mastery of the short story form''.

Writers’ Trust Awards Canada

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:02:28 +1100

Winnipeg writer Miriam Toews received the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans, a comic novel about a young woman and her niece and nephew on a motel-hopping road trip in search of the children’s father.Montreal writer Taras Grescoe won the $25,000 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize for Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, an account of the global crisis of fisheries and its implications, as well as a practical guide to sustainable consumption. Four other aithors were also recognised.

Winners Quebec Writers' Federation Awards- Hage Snares One

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:58:38 +1100

Rawi Hage's Cockroach has won the 2008 the QWF's Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Six other category winners received $2,000 each.

National Book Award Winners

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:09:22 +1100

New York- The 2008 Winners of the American National Book Awards have been announced in New York.

Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone was conceived as one vast mysterious novel. Now, his bold new rendering of the whole, Shadow Country is now the 2008 fiction winner of the National Book Award.

Other winners include Mark Doty (Poetry), Annette Gordon-Reed (Non-fiction) and Judy Blundell (Young People's Literature)

Gov-General Winners

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:50:21 +1100

One of Canada's leading awards, the Governor-General's Literary Awards has announced it's 2008 winners. Ten authors across five English and Five French language categories are now cdn$25,000 better off with a boost in book sales to come... Full list at source Canlit Awards

UK Costa Shortlists- Game On

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:27:04 +1100

One of Britian's leading literary awards, the Costa, has named twenty books across five categories for the 2008 prize

Complex Warwick Prize

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:36:36 +1100

The £50,000 Warwick Prize has launched it's inaugural long list with the theme of 'Complexity' and the books included certainly live up to the concept. It's a dazzling list.

Roald Dahl Funny Prize Winner

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:30:22 +1100

The winners of the inaugural UK Roald Dahl Funny Prize have been announced.

Dublin International Longlist

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:36:07 +1100

146 writers have been nominated from 157 libraries in 117 cities and 41 countries worldwide for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin. Worth 100,000 euros, it is the world's most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English and is a Dublin City Council initiative, in partnership with IMPAC.Full lists and nominating libraries

Giller Winner

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:10:51 +1100

One of Canada' s most prestigious literary awards, the CDN$50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize has been won by Joseph Boyden for his novel Through Black Spruce.

Winner: £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:27:34 +1100

A 29-year-old writer originally from Vietnam is the second winner of one of the world's biggest literary awards, the £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. Nam Le, who grew up in Australia, beat five rivals with his debut collection of short stories The Boat. The prize was presented at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea on Monday night, and he follows the first winner, Welsh writer Rachel Tresize, from Rhondda. Le is now based in New York, where he is Harvard Review fiction editor.

UK Blue Peter Shortlists

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:55:36 +1100

One of Britain's most enduring and popular children's TV shows, Blue Peter, has released it's 2008 Book Award shortlists- as delicious as ever. Nine books have been selected across three categories- it's now up to the Children's panels to decide the winners.

Winners Canadian Children's Book Award

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 07:22:14 +1100

It was raining book awards in Toronto on Thursday night at the Canadian Children’s Literature Awards. Winners were announced for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award t The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People the The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction and The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award,

AU$20,000 2008 'NIB'- Strong Shorts

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:55:13 +1100

Australia's au$20,000 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature has announced a strong short list of six for this years ' Nib' . Christopher Koch's psychological study of an espionage operative, The Memory Room, is one of six contenders for the main prize. . Details Literary Awards Australia.

John Llewelly Rhys Prize- Boyz Rule BritLit 2008 OK?

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:09:53 +1100

Days after the politically correct UK Guardian First Book Award issued an all-male short list,, the esteemed Llewelly Rhys has followed suit. Finalist include Booker winner Aravind Adiga's White Tiger. Full lists

UK Guardian First Book Award Shortlist

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 11:24:46 +1100

The prestigious UK 2008 Guardian newspapers First Novel Book Award Shortlists have been announced.

2008 Winners NSW & QLDS Children's Choice Book Awards

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:57:03 +1100

Bilby and Koala Literary Award Winners. J.K. Rowlings, Jackie French, Andy Griffiths, Deborah Niland and Emily Rodda are amongst the winners as the young readers let us all know who it is that they really like......

$110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Literary Award Shortlist and 2008 Winners of Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:50:33 +1100

30th Oct- In a busy day for the Western Australian Literary fraternity the seven category winners of the 2007 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced as well as the Shortlist for the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award .

Year of the Cockroach Continues as 2008 Governor General Shortlists Released

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:25:44 +1100

The epic, but prestigious, 2008Canadian Governor-General's Literary Award shortlist s have been released. It is starting to look like the year of the Cockroach with Rawi Hage's book, named after that most loathed of critters, dominating Canadian fiction award lists.

All-up some 70 authors have been named across 14 English and French speaking categories. It's big, but there again so is Canada and it's literary depth.... Full lists CandlitAwards.com

$110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award Longlist

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:11:33 +1100

The inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award Longlist has been revealed. Not much of any original Asian component in evidence. Twelve books have been named

Book Award Tragic Blog 'Failed. Four out of Ten for Dull Inaugural Australia-Asia Award'

Canada: Quebec and Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlists

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:55:27 +1100

The short lists for the Canadian Provinces of Quebec and Saskatchewan literary awards have been issued over the last few days. Details. Canlitawards.com

National Book Award Finalists 2008 - USA

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:29:33 +1100

The finalists for America's prestigious National Book Awards have been announced in Chicago. Twenty candidates have been nominated across four categories. Fiction. Non-Fiction. Poetry. Young Adults. Full lists Book Awards Online. Winners due 19th November.

Debut Novel 'White Tiger' Wins Booker

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:26:30 +1100

London 14th October The White Tiger, a debut novel by Aravind Adiga, and the bookies favourite, has won the 2008 Man Booker prize and with it the £50,000 prize. The novel is described as a ‘compelling, angry and darkly humorous’ novel about a man’s journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by one reviewer as an ‘unadorned portrait’ of India seen ‘from the bottom of the heap’.

A Torrent of Mystery Literary Award Winners

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:53:36 +1100

The World Mystery Conference, Boucheron, "Charmed to Death", held over the weekend -12 October, in Baltimore, has produced a torrent of Mystery Book Award winners.The Macavity, the Shamus, the Barry and Anthony Award judges all handed out the good oil ,spoiling mystery genre fans with choice.

The major winners were Laura Lippman, for her work What the Dead Know, and newcomer Tana French for In the Woods, Both authors went home with 3 trophies each and vastly increased book sale prospects.

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