National Book Award Winners Announced

2007 Hugo Award Winners

2007 Man Booker Prize Longlist

• Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)
• Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
• What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street)
• Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)
• Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)
• Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
• Winnie & Wolf by A.N.Wilson (Hutchinson)

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Writers Write, Inc. Launches Fantasy and Science Fiction Blog

Writers Write, Inc. has added a new blog to its blog network called FantasySFBlog.com. Fantasy/SF Blog is a daily blog covering what's new and interesting in the worlds of fantasy, SF, and horror, including books, movies, TV and gaming.

Recent posts include:

2007 Quill Award Nominees

The 2007 Quill Awards will be presented on October 22, 2007, during a gala ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, in New York City. Produced by Al Roker Entertainment, Inc., the one-hour Quill Awards television special will be carried by the NBC Universal Television Stations and syndicated through NBC Universal Television Distribution to local markets nationwide on Saturday, October 27, 2007. For the second year, the Quills awards event will be streamed live via a link from MSNBC.com, www.quills.msnbc.com.

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Edgar Award Winners Announced

The Edgar Award winners have been announced. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the "Edgars") are named after Mystery Writers of America's patron saint, Edgar Allan Poe, and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre. You can see a list of this year's nominees here. Here is a list of this year's winners.

Award News Roundup 2-11-07

2007 Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners

2006 World Fantasy Award Winners

2006 International Horror Guild Award Winners Named

Winners of Scream Awards 2006 Announced

2006 National Book Award Finalists Named

Among the Finalists is Gene Luen Yang, a Chinese-American comic artist, whose graphic novel, American Born Chinese, is a Finalist in the category of Young People's Literature, and Mark Z. Danielewski, a Fiction Finalist, whose novel Only Revolutions is told in parallel free verse and breaks with conventions of traditional storytelling. In the Non-Fiction category, Taylor Branch is nominated for On Canaan's Edge, his third volume about Martin Luther King, Jr. Two nominated works in this category-Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower and Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City-focus on 9/11 and Iraq, respectively. Two Fiction finalists-Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and Jess Walter's The Zero, use 9/11 as a point of departure, as well.

Several of this year's Finalists have been Finalists in previous years including Richard Powers (a Finalist in 1993), Taylor Branch (a Finalist in 1989), Louise Gluck (a Finalist in 1992 and 1999), and M.T. Anderson (a Finalist in 2002).

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Kiran Desai Wins Man Booker Prize

The Guardian reports (thx Book Blog) that Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton). She is youngest women to win the prize, which includes 50,000 cash prize.

At her first attempt Desai, 35, not only became the youngest woman to win but achieved a victory which repeatedly eluded her mother. The esteemed Indian novelist Anita Desai - to whom The Inheritance of Loss is dedicated - has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker.

On hearing the result Desai said: "The debt I owe to my mother is so profound that I feel the book is hers as much as mine. It was written in her company and in her wisdom and kindness."

This year's head judge, Hermione Lee, left no doubt that it was "the strength of the book's humanity" which gave it the edge after a long and passionate debate among the judges. "It is a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness," Professor Lee said. "Her mother will be proud of her."

You can read more about Kiran Desai here on the Man Booker Prize website.


Posted on October 16, 2006
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2006 Quill Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2006 Quill Awards have been announced. You can see some photo highlights from the awards presentation ceremony here. A list of all the winners is included below.

2006 Hugo Award Winners Announced

Best Novel: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Best Novella: "Inside Job" by Connie Willis (Asimov's January 2005)

Best Novelette: "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2005)

Best Short Story: "Tk'tk'tk" by David D. Levine (Asimov's March 2005) Available as an audio podcast download

Best Related Book: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop by Kate Wilhelm (Small Beer Press)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Serenity Written & Directed, Joss Whedon. (Universal Pictures/Mutant Enemy, Inc.)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who "The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances" Written, Steven Moffat. Directed, James Hawes. (BBC Wales/BBC1)

Best Professional Editor: David G. Hartwell (Tor Books; Year's Best SF)

Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola

Best Semiprozine: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi

Best Fanzine: Plokta edited, Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott

Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford

Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu

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The 2006 Quills Open for Voting

The Quills are back again this year. The Quills launched last year as a partnership between Reed Business Information and NBC. The annual awards allow people to vote online in 20 different categories. This year, MSNBC.com is hosting the voting. You can vote here until September 30th. Winners will be announced on October 10th. A list of last year's winners can be found here.


Posted on August 28, 2006
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2006 Thriller Awards Announced

The 2006 Thriller Awards, known as the Thrillers, were announced at ThrillerFest. The awards debuted this year. They are a new annual award that will be provided by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). Here is a list of this year's winners.

Man Booker Prize Long List Selected

Their books were whittled down from around 112 entries. Some 95 novels were submitted by publishers and 17 were called in by the panel of judges - the poet and novelist Simon Armitage, the novelist Candia McWilliam, the critic Anthony Quinn and the actress Fiona Shaw, chaired by the biographer and academic Hermione Lee.

They struggled to make their choice, locking themselves away for more than six hours before they decided. The final two or three names had caused the delay, as the judges found themselves arguing the case for their favourite choices.

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Nominees Announced for 2006 Scream Awards

SpikeTV has opened up nominations for their annual Scream Awards. The awards feature categories for comics, movies and tv in the horror, fantasy and sf gernres. Some of the categories include best horror movie, best fantasy movie, best sequel, scream queen, most vile villain, best flesh scene and most schoking comic book twist. There does not appear to be a category for novels. You can vote for the winners here until October 6,th. The awards show will air oin SpikeTV on October 10th. Horror.com also has a list of the nominations for each category.


Posted on August 17, 2006
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2006 Rita Award Winners Announced

The 2006 RITA award winners for romantic fiction have been announced by the Romance Writers Association. Here is the list of winners.

Eisner Awards Announced at Comic-Con

With three awards, writer Alan Moore was the most lauded creator at the 18th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held on Friday July 21 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Moore was named Best Writer, his latest graphic novel, Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, took Best Graphic Album—New honors, and Absolute Watchmen, the deluxe hardbound slipcased edition of his landmark 1986 book with Dave Gibbons, won for Best Archival Collection—Comic Books. On hand to accept his trophies was his fiancé and collaborator Melinda Gebbie.

Other creators to receive multiple awards were Kyle Baker (Best Reality-Based Work for Nat Turner, and Best Writer/Artist—Humor for Plastic Man and The Bakers), Grant Morrison (Best New Series for All Star Superman, Best Limited Series for Seven Soldiers), Chris Ware (Best Coloring for Acme Novelty Library #16, Best Publication Design for Acme Novelty Library Report to Shareholders), and John Cassaday (Best Penciller/Inker for Astonishing X-Men, which also won Best Continuing Series).

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2006 Christian Book Award Winners Announced

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) announced the winners for the 2006 Christian Book Awards during the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) convention. The 2006 Christian Book of the Year is the Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Here is a list of the winners.

Locus Award Winners Announced

Bram Stoker Winners Announced

Zadie Smith Wins Orange Prize

The 30-year-old London-born author took the £30,000 prize, celebrating female writing, at her third attempt.

Her previous two novels, White Teeth and The Autograph Man, were shortlisted in 2001 and 2003 respectively but failed to win.

Ali Smith's The Accidental - nominated for last year's Man Booker - and Nicole Krauss's The History of Love were among the six books vying for the title.

Australian Carrie Tiffany was the only first-time novelist shortlisted, for her book Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living.

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Whitbread Book Awards Become Costa Book Awards

The Whitbreak Book Awards have become the Costa Book Awards. The awards have been taken over by Costa Coffee, a UK coffee chain. The book awards will still have five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Children's Book and Poetry. The awards will offer a grand prize that includes a cash prize of £30,000.


Posted on June 2, 2006
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The Quill Awards Will Return This Year

The Quill Awards will be returning in 2006. The photograph on the right is what this year's Quill Award will look like. Consumer voting for the 2006 Quill Awards will take place beginning in August. Here are the categories for this year's Quill Awards.

Trillium Book Award Winners Announced

The book, about a Muslim nurse who flees to England from Ethiopia, has already been feted with a Giller nomination.

Gibb said she was delighted to receive the latest accolade - which comes more than 12 months after the book's initial release by Doubleday Canada.

"A book continues to have a life and be part of a bigger dialogue and it's nice that a year after its original publication it's still part of the conversation," she said.

Gibb, who has just spend the year as writer in residence at the University of Toronto, is planning to spend the summer working on a new novel.

Nebula Award Winners Announced

2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Orange Prize for Fiction Shotlist Announced

M. M. Buckner Wins Philip K. Dick Award

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Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot Announced

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the finalists for the Bram Stoker awards. The winners will be announced at the HWA annual conference, in Newark, N.J., on June 17. Here are the finalists in the best novel category.

Creepers by David Morrell

Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob

Keepers by Gary Braunbeck

November Mourns by Tom Piccirilli

A complete list of the finalists can be found here on the HWA's website. (Via -> Book Blog -> Sci Fi Wire)


Posted on April 12, 2006
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Dough Named 2006 Cookbook of the Year

Richard Bertinet's Dough: Simple Contemporary Bread (Kyle Cathie Ltd.) has won the 2006 Cookbook of the Year at the annual IACP Cookbook Awards. JournalNow.com explains how Dough won over the judges.

The nominees for the awards ceremony, held during the association's annual conference, featured such well-known names as Martha Stewart; Joan Nathan, an expert on Jewish cooking; and Suzanne Goin, the highly praised chef of Lucques restaurant in Los Angeles.

But it was Dough: Simple Contemporary Bread, written by newcomer Richard Bertinet and published by the small Kyle Cathie Ltd., that won the 2006 Cookbook of the Year.

Dough also won the Julia Child Award for an author's first book.

Professional baker Bertinet's book shows how five basic dough recipes can be used to make many kinds of bread. It apparently won over judges with its emphasis on a basic approach to make breadmaking doable for today's time-pressed cooks.

A complete list of all the 2006 Cookbook Award winners can be found here on the IACP website.


Posted on April 10, 2006
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British Book Award Winners Announced

The winners of the British Book Awards have been announced.

Once again, the British Book Awards has arrived with a colourful and eclectic mix of winners, with many the 2006 Nibbie holders reflecting the startling diversity apparent on UK bookshelves. Kate Mosse has stormed through to take Richard & Judy's Best Read, and alongside her are luminaries such as Alan Bennett, JK Rowling and John le Carr, who for once in his life approved of the movie adaption of one of his books with The Constant Gardener. Sports-wise, the rise of cricket through England's victory in the Ashes is celebrated with Freddie Flintoff's Nibbie for Sports Book of the Year.

Here is a list of the winners:

Hugo Nominees Announced

First-time Hugo nominees this year are John Scalzi, Cory Doctorow, Peter S. Beagle, Dominic Green, Margo Lanagan, Gary Westfahl, Gary K. Wolfe, Mike Ashley, Sheila Williams, Stephan Martiniere, and John Hertz.

This year's special category for Best Interactive Video Game appeared on the nominating ballot but was cancelled due to "lack of interest" -- presumably too few nominations in the category to tabulate meaningful results for a final ballot.

Two of this year's Best Novel nominees have previously won Hugos, Charles Stross (last year for novella "The Concrete Jungle") and George R.R. Martin (4 wins, most recently for novella "Blood of the Dragon" in 1997). Ken MacLeod and Robert Charles Wilson have 2 and 4 previous nominations respectively.

Book Sense Award Winners Announced

National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced

Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners Announced

Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced

Ali Smith Wins Whitbread Award

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John Stewart Wins Thurber Prize for Humor

Jon Stewart's book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. The two other finalists for the Thurber Prize were The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers by Andy Borowitz and Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas. The award is given annually by the Thurber House and Museum.


Posted on November 28, 2005
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Nebula Award Author Emeritus and Grand Master Announced

SFWA President, Robin Wayne Bailey, has announced the Grand Master and Author Emeritus to be honored at the Nebula Award Weekend in Tempe Arizona. William F. Nolan, the author of 150 stories and 75 books including Logan's Run, will be the 2006 Author Emeritus. Prolific sience fiction author Harlan Ellison, the winner of numerous writing awards including nine Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards, has been named as the Grand Master for 2006. The 2006 Nebula Awards Weekend will be May 4-7 at the Tempe Mission Palms in Tempe Arizona.


Posted on November 24, 2005
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National Book Award Winners Announced

The 2005 National Book Award winners have been announced. The winners were announced at the National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony in Manhattan on November 16. The dinner was hosted by Garrison Keillor. Each winner received $10,000 plus a bronze statue. Here is a list of the winners.

World Fantasy Award Winners Announced

David Bergen Wins Giller Prize

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International Horror Guild Award Winners Announced

The International Horror Guild Awards for books published in 2004 have been anounced. The awards were announced during a presentation at the World Fantasy Convention on Thursday evening, November 3, 2005 in the Capitol Ballroom of the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI. The awards are given each year by the IHG, a guild created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy.

National Book Award Finalists Announced

Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

The academy's citation said: "Pinter restored theatre to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles."

His spare style, full of threatening silences, has given rise to the adjective "Pinteresque".

The author of more than 30 plays, Pinter also writes prose.

His screenplays for film and television, include the 1981 movie The French Lieutenant's Woman based on John Fowles' novel.