2006 Guardian First Book prize shortlist announced
Date: August 24, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The shortlist for the 2006 Guardian First Book prize, awarding new writing across fiction and non-fiction, has been announced. The list is:
Carrie Tiffany: Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (fiction)
Lorraine Adams: Harbor (fiction)
John Donne: The Reformed Soul (biography)
Henry Nicholls: Lonesome George: The Lives and Loves of a Conservation Icon (natural history)
Jason Roberts: A Sense of the [...]
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2006 Quill Awards voting list announced
Date: August 24, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 Quill Awards voting list has been announced. The Quills, first presented in 2005, are described by the award’s website as something that “pair a populist sensibility with Hollywood-style glitz and have become the first literary prizes to reflect the tastes of the group that matters most in publishing-readers”. The winners are selected through [...]
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Winner of the 2006 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize announced
Date: August 21, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Joyce Carol Oates has been awarded the 2006 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, which is awarded for a lifetime of work.
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Man Booker Prize 2006 longlist announced
Date: August 15, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 is as follows:
Carey, Peter Theft: A Love Story (Faber & Faber)
Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
Edric, Robert Gathering the Water (Doubleday)
Gordimer, Nadine Get a Life (Bloomsbury)
Grenville, Kate The Secret River (Canongate)
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down (Canongate)
Jacobson, Howard Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape)
Lasdun, James Seven [...]
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Claudio Magris awarded Austria’s annual state prize
Date: August 1, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The Italian scholar, writer and translator Claudio Magris has been awarded Austria’s state literary prize for European literature. Magris, who has also been seen as a possible future Nobel Laureate, is best known for his works Danubio (”The Danube”, 1986) and Microcosmi (”Microcosmos”, 1997).
Magris is currently a professor of Modern Literature at the University of [...]
