2006 National Book Awards Finalists Announced (Fiction)
Date: October 11, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2006 fiction prize. They are:
Only Revolutionsby Mark Z. Danielewski,
From Mark Z Danielewski, author of the cult bestseller “House of Leaves”, comes the astonishing “Only Revolutions”, a shoot-from-the-hip American road novel about Sam and Hailey – two wayward and wild kids who magically career across the [...]
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2006 Man Booker Prize Winner Announced
Date: October 10, 2006 | Discussion: 1 Comment
Kiran Desai has been awarded the 2006 Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and best known literary awards. The annual prize, first given in 1969, awards £50,000 to the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
The winning work, The Inheritance of Loss, is [...]
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2006 Forward Poetry Prize Winners Announced
Date: October 5, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The British poet Robin Robertson has been awarded the Forward Prize for Poetry for his collection Swithering. Forward Prize is United Kingdom’s most valuable annual poetry competition (£10,000), and this is Robertson’s second time of winning: in 1997, he also won the Best First Collection Prize with A Painted Field.
This year’s winner of the Best [...]
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2006 Giller Prize Shortlist Announced
Date: October 4, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Shortlist for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize has been announced. The winner of the $40,000 award, annually given to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story published in English, will be announced on November 7.
The works shortlisted are:
De Niro’s Gameby Rawi Hage
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