Nanae Aoyama wins the Akutagawa Prize
Date: January 17, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Nanae Aoyama has won the 2007 (January) Akutagawa Prize for her novel Hitori Biyori. The price, which is arguably Japan’s most prestigious, is awarded twice a year for the best story published in a newspaper or magazine by a new or rising author. Histori Biyori is not yet available in English.
Also the Naoki Prize, given [...]
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Thomas Harris wins lifetime horror award
Date: January 16, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Thomas Harris, best known for his Hannibal Lecter novels that have been filmed as The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon has been given the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.
For more about Harris’s work, see Amazon.com and at Amazon.co.uk.
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Seamus Heaney Wins 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize
Date: January 16, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Seamus Heaney has won the ₤10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for his 2006 collection of poetry titled District and Circle. The collection is the Nobel Prize winner’s 12th book of poetry.
The T.S. Eliot Prize, organized in 1993, is given annually to the best collection of new verse published the UK or Ireland.
District and Circleby Seamus Heaney
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2006 Costa Book Awards category winners announced
Date: January 11, 2007 | Discussion: 1 Comment
Costa Book Awards (formerly known as the Whitbread Book Awards) have announced the category winners for 2006. The five books will now compete for the “book of the year” award that will be decided on the 7th of February. Costa Book Awards are given for both the works’ literary merit, as well as their popular [...]
