Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winners announced
Date: May 30, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 overall winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize have been announced. The £10,000 award for the overall Best Book and the £5,000 for the Best First Book were chosen from the eight regional winners selected earlier this year.
This year’s winners are:
BEST BOOK: Mister Pipby Lloyd Jones
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where [...]
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Lucille Clifton wins Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Date: May 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The poet Lucille Clifton has been given the $100,000 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize lifetime achievement award, which is among the most prestigious American literary honours. Clifton has published 11 books of poetry, as well as numerous children’s books and a prose novel. She has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize.
Clifton’s work can be [...]
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Yu Nagashima wins Oe award
Date: May 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Yu Nagashima’s short story collection “Yukon-chan no chikamichi” (”Yuko’s Shortcut”) has won the first Oe Award, named after the Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe. The collection will now be translated into English, following the literary award’s aims to promote Japanese literature overseas.
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2007 Edgar nominees announced
Date: May 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 Edgar Awards nominees by the Mystery Writers of America have been announced. See here for a full list.
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José Eduardo Agualusa wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Date: May 5, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa has won the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, an annual £5,000 prize awarding fiction published in English translation in the UK. The prize awards both the author and the translator of the work.
The Book of Chameleonsby José Eduardo Agualusa
This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies [...]
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Caine Prize shortlist announced
Date: May 5, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Shortlist for the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced. Three of the five authors shortlisted for this £10,000 prize are Nigerian. Winners will be known on Monday, 9th of July.
This year’s nominated authors are:
Uwem Akpan (Nigeria) for “My Parents Bedroom” (published in The New Yorker, June 12, 2006)
Monica Arac de Nyeko (Uganda) [...]
