This category covers literary prizes that award short stories, rather than drama, poetry or novels.
To see all the latest literary awards news, see the front page of The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News.
Julian Gough wins the National Short Story Prize
Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Julian Gough has won the £15,000 British National Short Story Prize with his piece ‘The Orphan and the Mob’. The story, which the judges praised for the “comedy, energy and originality of both plot and voice set[ting] him ahead of the other contenders”, is available for online reading at the Prospect website.
David Almond was named runner-up with his ‘Slog’s Dad’.
Filed under British literature, English literature, Fiction, Short stories, Winners
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 are 18 or older. The story must not be more than 8000 words. The prize is funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.
This year’s shortlist, from which the winner will be announced on Monday 23 April, is:
‘Slog’s Dad’ by David Almond
‘The Morena’ by Jonathan Falla
‘The Orphan and the Mob’ by Julian Gough
‘How to Get Away with Suicide’ by Jackie Kay
‘Weddings and Beheadings’ by Hanif Kureishi
Filed under British literature, English literature, Fiction, Short stories, Shortlists
Haruki Murakami wins the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for Fiction
Date: April 2, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Haruki Murakami has been awarded the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories entitled Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. The $30,000 prize that was established in 1996 annually recognizes fiction that promotes greater understanding of and among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple’s relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite crab while on holiday; a man follows instructions on the back of a postcard to apply for a job, but an unknown password stands between him and his mysterious employer. In each one of these stories, Murakami sidesteps the real and sprints for the surreal. Everyday events are transcended, leaving the reader dazzled by this master of his craft. “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is Murakami’s most eclectic collection of stories to date, spanning five years of his writing. An introduction explains the diversity of the author’s choice. …
You can read more about Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Filed under Asian literature, Fiction, Short stories, Winners
Hugo Award nominees announced
Date: March 30, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The World Science Fiction Convention has named its nominees for the 2007 Hugo Award, which honours the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year. The full list of nominees is available at the SciFi Wire website.
Filed under English literature, Fiction, Novels, Science fiction and fantasy, Short stories, Shortlists
Prometheus nominees announced
Date: March 29, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Nominees for the 2007 Prometheus Award, which annually honours libertarian science fiction, have been announced.
The nominees for this year’s main award are:
Empire by Orson Scott Card
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson
The Prometheus Classic Hall of Fame recognizes classic pro-freedom freedom writing, with this year’s nominees being:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
“As Easy as A.B.C.” by Rudyard Kipling
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“True Names,” by Vernor Vinge
Winners will be revealed at the end of August this year.
Filed under American literature, British literature, English literature, Fiction, Novels, Science fiction and fantasy, Short stories, Shortlists
Early March Roundup
Date: March 11, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
I am unfortunately extremely pressed on time these days, so this post will be somewhat unusual in that I am going to provide you with direct links to the latest winner and nominee lists. Hopefully, normality will return in April.
- Winterset shortlist has been announced
- Los Angeles Times awards nominations have been announced
- National Book Critics have announced their winners
- Independent foreign fiction prize has announced its nominations
- Wales Book of the Year long list has been announced
- First regional Commonwealth Prize winners have been announced
- British Book Awards have announced their shortlist
- Kenneth J. Harvey has won the Writers’ Trust Award for fiction
- Rehman Raahi has been awarded the Jnanpith Award
