Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Date: April 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 winners of America’s most prestigious literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, have been announced. This year’s winners in the $10,000 fiction categories, which award works “preferably dealing with American life”, are:
FICTION: The Roadby Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, [...]
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners announced
Date: April 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The US-based Cleveland Foundation has announced the winners of the 72nd Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which were created in 1935 to recognize outstanding works that contribute to society’s understanding of racism and foster an appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.
There are two winners in the 2007 fiction category:
Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi [...]
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National Short Story Prize shortlist announced
Date: April 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 National Short Story Prize shortlist has been announced. The Brittish prize, which is the largest in the world for a single short story, gives £15,000 for the winning story, £3,000 for the runner-up, and £500 for the other three stories on the shortlist. The award is open to UK nationals or residents who [...]
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Man Booker International shortlist announced
Date: April 12, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Shortlist for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, a biennial prize awarding living authors published in English, has been announced. The listed authors are:
Chinua Achebe
Margaret Atwood
John Banville
Peter Carey
Don DeLillo
Carlos Fuentes
Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan
Harry Mulisch
Alice Munro
Michael Ondaatje
Amos Oz
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
Michael Tournier
Winner of the £60,000 prize will be announced in June. The first Man Booker International Prize, which [...]
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Griffin Poetry Prize announces Canadian and International shortlists
Date: April 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The Griffin Trust has announced the 2007 shortlists for both their Canadian and International poetry prices. The $100,000 (Canadian) poetry prize is among the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world and is awarded annually for the best books of poetry published in English in the previous year.
CANADIAN SHORTLIST
Airstream Land Yachtby Ken Babstock
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International IMPAC Literary Award shortlist announced
Date: April 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Shortlist for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which at 100,000€ is the world’s most lucrative prize for a single work of fiction published in or translated into English, has been announced. The list of eight novels, selected from 169 novels nominated by libraries from around the world, is:
Arthur and Georgeby Julian Barnes
Praised as [...]
