Archive for July, 2006

2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards winners announced

Date: July 28, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments

The winners of the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The list of names in the various fiction-related fields is:

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2006 Dylan Thomas Prize longlist announced

Date: July 22, 2006 | Discussion: 1 Comment

The longlist for the 2006 Dylan Thomas Prize was announced yesterday. The list is:

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2006 Forward Poetry Prize shortlist announced

Date: July 15, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments

Shortlist for the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize, the UK’s most valuable annual poetry award, has been announced. It is composed of the following names:

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2006 Akutagawa Prize winner announced

Date: July 14, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments

Winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, was announced yesterday. The award was given to Takami Ito for his novel “Hachigatsu no Rojo ni Suteru” (Throwing Stuff Away on a Road in August).

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Winner of the 2006 Wales Book of the Year award announced

Date: July 13, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments

The 2006 Wales Book of the year, Britain’s only bilingual literary prize, has been awarded to Robert Minhinnick’s To Babel and Back (in the English language category), and to the journalist Rhys Evans for his work Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad (in the Welsh language category).

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Winner of the 2006 Caine Prize for African Writing announced

Date: July 11, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments

The 2006 Caine Prize has been awarded to South Africa’s Mary Watson for her short story ‘Jungfrau’.

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