2006 Miles Franklin Award winner announced
Date: June 23, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The winner of the 2006 Miles Franklin Award has been announced. The award is usually considered as the most prestigious literary award in the Australian literary calendar.
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The South African 2006 Sunday Times Literary Award winners announced
Date: June 20, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 Sunday Times (South Africa) Literary Award in fiction has been given to Andrew Brown for his novel Coldsleep Lullaby.
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Winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award announced
Date: June 14, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Colm Tóibín has been awarded the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Master. The work, Tóibín’s fifth, is a fictionalised portrait of Henry James.
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Naomi Alderman wins 2006 Orange Award for New Writers
Date: June 7, 2006 | Discussion: 2 Comments
Naomi Alderman has been announced as the winner of the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers for her book Disobedience.
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The 2006 James Tait Black Memorial prize winner announced
Date: June 7, 2006 | Discussion: 2 Comments
The winner of Scotland’s most prestigious and UK’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial prize, has been announced.
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Zadie Smith awarded 2006 Orange Prize for fiction
Date: June 6, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 Orange Prize for fiction has been given to Zadie Smith for her novel On Beauty. It is the first time Smith has won the award, but not her first time to be nominated: both of her previous novels, White Teeth (2001) and The Autograph Man (2003) having been shortlisted before. On Beauty was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year.
