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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 Road
by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, `each other’s world entire’, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
You can read more about The Road at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
DRAMA: Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
A story of loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness-told through daily moments and emotional hurdles-as a family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old. With a critically acclaimed Broadway premiere, featuring Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly, Rabbit Hole has been hailed as an artistic breakthrough for the highly regarded David Lindsay-Abaire.
You can read more about Rabbit Hole at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
POETRY: Native Guard
by Natasha Trethewey
A daughter of the American South and a child of an interracial marriage that defied a law still on the books in 1966 Mississippi, Natasha Trethewey does not shy away from the difficult themes that plague the region’s past. At the spine of this collection is the forgotten story of the Louisiana Native Guards, one of the first black regiments called into service during the Civil War. The racial legacy of this war echoes through elegiac poems that honor Trethewey’s mother and tell of her own fraught childhood. A haunted and beguiling narrative, Native Guard is caught in the intersection of national and personal experience.
You can read more about Native Guard at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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2006 Lambda Literary Awards nominees announced
Date: February 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Close to 400 books have been nominated across the 25 categories of the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. The annual American award honours works with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender themes.
Full list of nominees can be seen at the Lambda Literary Foundation website. Finalists will be announced by March 1st, with winners known on Thursday, May 31.
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2006 Governor General’s Literary Awards announced
Date: November 23, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
This year’s winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced. The annual prize, awarded in altogether seven categories in both French and English, is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes.
This year, the fiction awards go to Peter Behrens and Andrée Laberge (fiction), John Pass and Hélène Dorion (poetry), and Daniel MacIvor and Évelyne de la Chenelière (drama). For more information about the individual works, see below.
The Law of Dreams
by Peter Behrens
The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man’s epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to “the Boston states,†Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along the way, he meets an unforgettable generation of boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful girls – all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect. …
You can read more about The Law of Dreams at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
La rivière du loup
by Andrée Laberge
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Stumbling in the Bloom
by John Pass
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You can read more about Stumbling in the Bloom at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Ravir : les lieux
by Hélène Dorion
Unfortunately, no description is available for this work.
You can read more about Ravir : les lieux at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
I Still Love You
by Daniel MacIvor
Five plays by Daniel MacIvor in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera.
You can read more about I Still Love You at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Désordre public
by Évelyne de la Chenelière
Unfortunately, no description is available for this work.
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2006 Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced
Date: September 6, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Winners of the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been annonced. The awards, established in 1985, are given by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia’s publishing industry.
The winners of this year’s awards are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Theft: A love Story by Peter Carey (Knopf/Random House)
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia)
The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter (University of Queensland Press)
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon by Stephen Sewell (Adelaide Festival)
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Theodora’s Gift by Ursula Dubosarsky (Penguin Books Australia)
The Prize for a First Book of History
Humain Remains by Helen MacDonald (Melbourne University Publishing)
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Is the Media Asleep? from Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? by David Marr (Black Inc)
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Noise by Matthew Saville (Retroactive Films)
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch (University of Queensland Press)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita by Penelope Green (Hachette Livre Australia)
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Information Idol: How Google is Making Us Stupid by Gideon Haigh (The Monthly)
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper (The Monthly)
The list of winners, as well as links to judges’ reports, can be found at the State Library of Victoria website
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2005 Patrick White Playwright’s Award Winner Announced
Date: May 29, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Wesley Enoch has won the 2005 Patrick White Playwright’s Award for his play The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table.
Filed under Australian literature, Drama, English literature, Winners
The 2006 Miles Franklin Award Shortlist Announced
Date: April 28, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The shortlist for the 2006 Miles Franklin Award for a “published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases” has been published and includes the works presented below. (The winner will be announced 22 June 2006. Click on the images below for more details from Amazon.com. Buying the titles through these links benefits this website.)
Carrie Tiffany: Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
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Roger McDonald: The Ballad of Desmond Kale
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Brian Castro: The Garden Book
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Kate Grenville: The Secret River
Brenda Walker: The Wing of Night
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The original longlist, announced March 16 2006, can be found here.
