Last weekend, I was shocked to find out that right around the corner (in Burlington, MA) the Shirley Jackson Awards were being presented (as part of a larger conference, Readercon) and I hadn’t heard about it! I hopped right over and attended, and was glad I did. The presenter of the awards, Nalo Hopkinson, was [...]
I was extremely lucky last week as I got to attend the Massachusetts Books Awards ceremony. All but one author was present to receive their awards, and I even got to meet John Pipkin and have him sign a copy of his excellent book Woodsburner. James Whitley did a reading and I wished I had [...]
As you may have heard, the Pulitzer Prizes were announced about a week ago. Some of this year’s literary winners are:
Fiction - Tinkers by Paul Harding
History - Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Biography - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by [...]
The 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award winner was announced yesterday, and it is Sherman Alexie’s War Dances! The other four finalists were: Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna, Lorraine M. Lopez for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stairs, and Colson Whitehead for Sag Harbor.
In children’s literature news, David Almond was [...]
The Morning News is running its annual Tournament of Books. They describe this contest as “literary awarding gone ferocious, March Madness-style.” Basically, they take 16 novels from the previous year and seed them into a competitive bracket, much like in sports challenges. A group of judges then pick their favorite from each head-to-head match over [...]
The World Fantasy Awards will be given out tomorrow. Their 2009 convention site/blog has a list of the nominees and a chance to watch the ceremony live, or you can follow the updates on Twitter.
The Guardian Book Award shortlist was announced on Thursday, and includes such books as The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey and The [...]
While we have recognized that fall is a busy book release time (especially this fall), what you might not realize is that it’s also a very busy time for book awards. It starts with the Man Booker Prize shortlist, which was released last week and includes such books as Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger, Hilary [...]
The James Tait Black literary prizes were presented in Edinburgh last Friday. The £10,000 awards were presented to Irish novelist Sebastian Barry for his novel The Secret Scripture, and to biographer Michael Holroyd, for his book on 19th century Shakespearean actors, A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their [...]
I admit I have been remiss in keeping you all up to date on book award winners, and I plan to start correcting that right now with this post on the recent Hugo Awards. The science fiction & fantasy awards were presented in Montreal over this past weekend, and there were some great winners worth [...]
National Book Award: 60 Years, 77 Winners
With the 60th annual National Book Awards just four months away, the National Book Foundation has started looking back at all 77 winners of the fiction prizes, and blogging about one book per day. They started this past Tuesday with the 1950 winner, Nelson Algren’s The Man With the [...]
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