McCarthy wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
Date: August 29, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The American Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy has been awarded the 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for his novel The Road.
The annual £10,000 James Tait Black Prize is the oldest literary prize in the UK, and among the most prestigious awards given for literature written in the English Language.
The Roadby Cormac [...]
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World Fantasy Award nominations
Date: August 14, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Nominees for the 2007 World Fantasy Award have been announced. A full list of nominees can be found at the World Fantasy Award website.
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Booker longlist announced
Date: August 8, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Longlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize has been revealed. From the 13 authors on the list, only one (Ian McEwan) has been nominated for the award before. Furthermore, four first-time novelists have also made the list.
This year’s longlist is:
Nicola Barker: Darkmans
Edward Docx: Self Help
Tan Twan Eng: The Gift Of Rain
Anne Enright: The Gathering
Mohsin Hamid: [...]
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Wallace Stevens Award announced
Date: August 8, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The American Academy of Poets has selected Charles Simic as the recipient of the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award. The $100,000 poetry prize has been awarded since 1994, and recognizes “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry” in the English language.
The Yugoslavian-born Simic’s poetry first appeared in publication after his family’s move to the [...]
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Montana NZ winners announced
Date: August 2, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Winners of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The awards, given annually to the best writing in New Zealand, were this year dominated by Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip, which won the Medal (main prize), and was selected as the fiction winner by both the panel as well as the readers. [...]
