This category covers literary prizes that award poetry, rather than drama, novels or short stories.
To see all the latest literary awards news, see the front page of The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News.
Montana NZ Book Awards shortlists announced
Date: June 3, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards shortlists have been announced. The award recognizes the best writing by New Zealand citizens.
This year’s finalists are:
2007 FICTION FINALISTS:
The Cowboy Dog by Nigel Cox
The Fainter by Damien Wilkins
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
My Name Was Judas by C.K. Stead
Ocean Roads by James George
2007 BEST FIRST BOOK FICTION FINALISTS:
Davey Darling by Paul Shannon
Overdue New Releases by Matt Johnson
The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
2007 POETRY FINALISTS:
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame
One Shapely Thing by Dinah Hawken
The Year of the Bicycle by James Brown
2007 POETRY FIRST BOOK FINALISTS:
After the Dance by Michele Amas
Cup by Alison Wong
Secret Heart by Airini Beautrais
The full list of finalists, including those in the non-fiction categories, can be found at the Montana NZ Book Awards website.
Filed under Commonwealth literature, English literature, Fiction, Poetry, Shortlists
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 found at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Filed under American literature, English literature, Lifetime awards, Poetry, Winners
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.
Filed under English literature, Fiction, Novels, Poetry, Shortlists
Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners announced
Date: May 5, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners have been selected. The $1,000 award has been given out since 1980, and includes nine categories, of which four deal with fiction.
FICTION: A Woman in Jerusalem
by A.B. Yehoshua
A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of “gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee,” the bakery’s owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman’s life take shape-she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non-Jew on a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful-he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love. …
You can read more about A Woman in Jerusalem at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca
FIRST FICTION: White Ghost Girls
by Alice Greenway
Two sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes and ears. Immersed in the heat and colours of Hong Kong in the 1960s, theirs is a world of fishermen and insurgents, temple gods and ghosts, of blinding light and dark, dark waters. As Frankie’s behaviour becomes more and more outrageous, in her defiant attempt to win her parents’ attention, Kate retreats into a quiet desperation, unable to act to save the one soul for whom she would sacrifice everything - Frankie.
You can read more about White Ghost Girls at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca
MYSTERY/THRILLER: Echo Park
by Michael Connelly
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn’t crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch. …
You can read more about Echo Park at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca
POETRY: Ooga-Booga
by Frederick Seidel
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from “the most frightening American poet ever” (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).
You can read more about Ooga-Booga at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca
A full list of winners and finalists can be found at the Los Angeles Times Book Prize website.
Filed under American literature, English literature, Fiction, Novels, Poetry, Winners
James Fenton awarded Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
James Fenton has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2007. Established in 1933 by the British King Edward V, the award is given for a book of verse published by someone from the United Kingdom or a Commonwealth realm. Recommendations to the Queen are made by a committee of eminent scholars and authors chaired by the Poet Laureate.
Fenton’s work can be found at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for more information.
Filed under British literature, Poetry, Winners
Antonio Gamoneda receives the Cervantes Prize
Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda has been awarded Spain’s top literature award, the Cervantes Prize. The winner of the 90,000 euro lifetime achievement award is chosen annually by the Spanish Ministry of Culture from candidates nominated by the various Language Academies of Spanish speaking countries around the world.
Gamoneda, who had his first works published in the 1960s, is perhaps best known for his 1987 National Poetry Prize winning collection “Edad”, which collected the poet’s finest works so far. He is also known for his translations of foreign poets.
Only some of Gamoneda’s collections have been translated into English. See Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for more information.
