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 [...]
Stephen King took home two Bram Stoker Awards this past weekend, one for his novel Duma Key and the other for his fiction collection Just After Sunset. The awards honored an excellent collection of horror writers, including Lisa Mannetti for her debut novel The Gentling Box. Check their site for a complete list of winners [...]
The 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced on June 2, 2009. Presented annually since 1967, these awards honor excellence in children’s and young adult literature and are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book.
The 2009 winners are:
Fiction and Poetry - Nation by Terry Pratchett. A young adult novel about two [...]
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced their Audie Award winners Friday night in New York. 28 titles in 31 categories were chosen. Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (read by the author himself) picked up two awards - Audiobook of the Year and Children’s Title for Ages 8-10. L.A. Meyer’s Curse of the Blue Tattoo took [...]
Some recent book awards caught my attention and I thought I’d highlight them here. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep up with the book awards news from here on out. If you know of any book awards that we miss, please post them!
The first one I noticed was that the Eric Hoffer Book Award was [...]
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