Awards and Prizes
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The Orange Prize for Fiction and New Writers 2010 shortlists
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Awards and Prizes
The Orange Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction (known as the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction from 2007 to 2008) is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom [...]
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Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Tinkers by Paul Harding
An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, [...]
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The 2010 Cork City – Frank O’Connor Short Story Award Longlist
The Munster Literature Centre is pleased to release the longlist for the 2010 Cork City – Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, now in its sixth year. The longlist is almost evenly split between women and men this year with 28 men and 26 women. The strength of the short story in the United States is [...]
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The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2010 Shortlist
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the UK’s only literary award for comic writing. Established in 2000 and named in honour of P G Wodehouse, past winners include Paul Torday in 2007 with Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Marina Lewycka with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 2005 and [...]
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The 2010 18th Wales Book of the Year longlist
Wales Book of the Year
Wales Book of the Year prizes are awarded annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors. Established in 1992, the awards are currently administered by the Academi, and supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh [...]
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The 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879 – 1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My [...]
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The Lost Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
Just to recap from my earlier blog (dated Feb 4, 2010) – back in 1971, the Booker Prize was revamped to honour the best novel of the year based on its year of publications. And so, many books published in 1970 were left without any opportunity of winning a Booker Prize… until this year.
The Lost Man [...]
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The Orange Prize longlist in full
1. Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You
England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which [...]
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The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced
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Back in 1971, the Booker Prize was revamped to honour the best novel of the year based on its year of publications. In doing so, many books published in 1970 were left out in the dark with no opportunity of winning a Booker Prize… until this year. The Lost Man Booker Prize is the brainchild [...]
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2009 Costa Award Overall Winner Announced
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Previously, on 6th Jan, we blogged who the five winners, by categories, of the Costa Award were. Here’s a quick recap :
Costa Novel Award: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibin
First Novel Award: Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
Biography Award: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
Poetry Award: A Scattering by Christopher Reid
Children’s Book Award: Chaos Walking [...]
