Kiriyama Book Prize nominees announced
Date: February 28, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Kiriyama Book Prize, a $30,000 prize that awards books “that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim and of South Asia”, has announced its annual nominations for best fiction. They are:
“The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai
“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” by Haruki Murakami
“Stick Out Your Tongue” by Ma Jian
“Certainty” by [...]
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Kirk Nesset wins the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Date: February 14, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Kirk Nesset has won the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, an American literary prize that awards English language short fiction that has been serialised in magazines or journals. Nesset, an associate professor of English and creative writing at Allegheny College in Meadville, won the $15,000 prize with his serialised novel Paradise Road, which will now [...]
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Eric McHenry wins the 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Date: February 14, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Eric McHenry’s Potscrubber Lullabies has won the 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a $10,000 companion prize to the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The Discovery Award recognizes first book poets.
You can purchase or read more about Postcrubber Lullabies at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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Rodney Jones wins the 2007 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Date: February 14, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Rodney Jones, a professor of English at Southern Illinois University, has won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The $100,000 American prize, presented to a poet with an established body of work but no great fame or success, is one of the most lucrative poetry awards in the world.
Jones’s latest collection is Salvation Blues, which gathers [...]
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2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize shortlists announced
Date: February 11, 2007 | Discussion: 1 Comment
The Commonwealth foundation has announced the regional shortlists for the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The annual fiction prize that rewards writing from the British Commonwealth is selected by first judging books from four different regional groups (Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, Europe and South Asia, South East Asia and South Pacific) with each including two [...]
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Stef Penney wins the 2006 Costa Book Award
Date: February 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The London-based writer Stef Penney has won the 2006 Costa Book Award for her debut novel The Tenderness of Wolves.
The £25,000 award, which was formerly known as the Whitbread Prize, is given to the best book from the five individual categories awarded earlier for best first book, best novel, best poetry and other non-fiction awards [...]
