2006 Costa Book Awards shortlist announced
Date: November 28, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 Costa Book Awards shortlist has been announced. The award, previously known as Whitbread Awards, is one of the most prestigious awards in the United Kingdom, and is given to a work that is both of high literary merit, as well as a good read.
The awards are given in five categories: Best novel, Best [...]
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2006 Governor General’s Literary Awards announced
Date: November 23, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
This year’s winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced. The annual prize, awarded in altogether seven categories in both French and English, is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes.
This year, the fiction awards go to Peter Behrens and Andrée Laberge (fiction), John Pass and Hélène Dorion (poetry), and Daniel MacIvor [...]
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2006 National Book Awards winners announced
Date: November 16, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 National Book Awards winners have been announced. This year, the Fiction prize goes to Richard Powers for his The Echo Maker, while Nathaniel Mackey is awarded the Poetry prize for his poetry collection Splay Anthem. National Book Awards are awarded annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the country.
The [...]
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2006 Patrick White Award announced
Date: November 11, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The recipient of the 2006 Patrick White Award has been announced. The annual prize, which was established in 1973 by the Australian novelist Patrick White with the money he received for his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, is given to a writer who has not received adequate recognition despite of his or her long [...]
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2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner announced
Date: November 9, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize has been given to Vincent Lam for his debut work Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. This is the first time that the prestigious Canadian literary prize, given annually to the best Canadian novel or short story fiction collection published in English, is given for a first-time work.
The jury described Lam’s work [...]
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2006 Prix Renaudot winner announced
Date: November 6, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The winner of the 2006 Prix Renaudot, one of France’s top literary prizes, has been announced. The prize was given to Alain Mabanckou for his novel Memoires de porc-epic (”Memoires of a Porcupine”).
Mémoires de porc-épicby Alain Mabanckou
The novel is currently not available in English, but the French version can be ordered from Amazon.fr.
