Hugo Award nominees announced
Date: March 30, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The World Science Fiction Convention has named its nominees for the 2007 Hugo Award, which honours the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year. The full list of nominees is available at the SciFi Wire website.
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Prometheus nominees announced
Date: March 29, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Nominees for the 2007 Prometheus Award, which annually honours libertarian science fiction, have been announced.
The nominees for this year’s main award are:
Empire by Orson Scott Card
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson
The Prometheus Classic Hall of Fame recognizes classic pro-freedom freedom writing, with this year’s [...]
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British Book Awards winners announced
Date: March 29, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
British Book Awards, which call themselves “the glitziest event in the UK book trade industry’s calendar”, have revealed their 2007 winners. The awards, also known as The Nibbies, are organized by Publishing News and given annually. The awards are chosen by public vote.
This year’s winners in the fiction categories were:
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2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction longlist announced
Date: March 19, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 20 books making up the longlist for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction have been named. They are:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun
Clare Allan for Poppy Shakespeare
Rachel Cusk for Arlington Park
Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss
Patricia Ferguson for Peripheral Vision
Margaret Forster for Over
Nell Freudenberger for The Dissident
Rebecca Gowers for [...]
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2007 Miles Franklin Award longlist announced
Date: March 19, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Longlist for the 2007 Miles Franklin Award has been announced. The eight novels selected are:
Beyond the Break by Sandra Hall
Careless by Deborah Robertson
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
Silent Parts by John Charalambous
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
The Unexpected Elements of Love by Kate Legge
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
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Elizabeth Alexander wins Jackson Poetry Prize
Date: March 19, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Elizabeth Alexander, an author of four books of poems, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize which is awarded for a published American poet who has not yet received any major national acclaim.
Alexander, who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, is a professor of African-American studies at [...]
