2008 National Book Awards Winners
Here's the winners of the 2008 National Book Awards (via Readers Read).
- Fiction: Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)
- Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Poetry: Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins)
- Young People's Literature: Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic)
Posted on November 23, 2008
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Hugo Award Finalists Announced
The nominations for this year's Hugo awards are in. Here are the finalists for book of the year.The complete list of nominees is located here. (via Book Blog)The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate)
Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog Oct. 2006-Jan./Feb. 2007)
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor)
Halting State by Charles Stross (Ace)
Posted on March 28, 2008
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2007 Bram Stoker Award Nominees
The nominees for the annual Bram Stoker Awards have been announced by the Horror Writers Association. The winners will be announced at the 2008 World Horror Convention. Here's the list of Best Novel and Best First Novel nominees. You can the see the full nominee list here.NOVEL:
FIRST NOVEL:
Posted on February 19, 2008
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National Book Award Winners Announced
The winners of the National Book Awards have been announced. Here is a list of this year's winners.You can see a list of all the finalists here on the official National Book Award website.
Posted on November 16, 2007
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2006 World Fantasy Award Winners
The winners of the 2006 World Fantasy Awards have been announced.John Crowley and Stephen Fabian won Lifetime achievement awards. You can see a full list with all the nominees here.
Posted on November 13, 2006
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2006 National Book Award Finalists Named
The 20 finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards have been announced. The Awards are presented annually by the National Book Foundation.
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.This year's winners will be announced on November 15th. You can see a list of the winners from last year here.
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).
Posted on November 3, 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.
A RITA list that includes all the runner-ups can be found here on the RWA's website.
Posted on August 15, 2006
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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.
The awards were originally known as the Gold Medallion Awards.
Posted on July 25, 2006
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Locus Award Winners Announced
The Locus Award winners were recently announced at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle. The winners are voted on by readers of Locus magazine. Here is a list of the winners:
Posted on July 10, 2006
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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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Trillium Book Award Winners Announced
The Trillium Book Award winners have been announced. Camilla Gibb won in the book category for Sweetness in the Belly according to a Jam Books story.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.
The Trillium Book Award is a Canadian book award established by the Ontario government in 1987.
Posted on May 15, 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:
Posted on April 3, 2006
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Book Sense Award Winners Announced
The Book Sense Book of the Year award winners have been announced. The winners are voted on by owners and staff of American Booksellers Association member bookstores.
The ABA says that the winners will be feted at ABA's annual Celebration of Bookselling at BookExpo America on Friday, May 19, in Washington, D.C.
Posted on March 17, 2006
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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.
The National Book Foundation website has acceptance speeches and photographs for each of the winners. ReadersRead.com also has more on the winners.
Posted on November 20, 2005
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National Book Award Finalists Announced
The National Book Award finalists have been announced. The four winners, one in each category, will be announced at the National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony in Manhattan on November 16. The dinner will be hosted by Garrison Keillor. Each winner receives $10,000 plus a bronze statue and each Finalist receives a bronze medal and a $1,000 cash award. Here is a list of the finalists:Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Young People's Literature
Posted on October 16, 2005
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