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The 50th Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Anna Burns for the novel Milkman (Faber & Faber). Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast and lives in East Sussex, drew on the experience of Northern Ireland during the Troubles to write…
Eden Robinson has been awarded the Copper Cylinder Award, a prize given annually for Canadian literature of the fantastic, selected by members of the Sunburst Award Society for books published during the previous year. Additionally, the 2018 Copper Cylinder Young Adult Award…
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has been awarded the Golden Man Booker Award. From the Man Booker news site: The winner of this special one-off award for the Man Booker Prize’s 50th anniversary celebrations was chosen by the public. All 51…
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, has voted to remove author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from the award the previously carried it. The award will now be known as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award,…
The shortlists for the seven distinct literary prizes that make up the BC Book Prizes were announced today, delivering the names of the finalists vying for recognition in seven categories at the 34th Annual BC Book Prizes. The BC Book Prizes were…
The longlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, has been announced. The 13 novel list represents translated fiction from around the world. “The longlist introduces a wealth of talent, a variety…
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. Paul Auster, Emily Fridlund, Mohsin Hamid, Fiona Mozley, George Saunders and Ali Smith were announced as the six shortlisted authors. The Man Booker is the leading English language prize for fiction….
In a less than celebratory moment in America, Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist, Sag Harbor) has won the National Book Award for his 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad which, in its announcement, the New York Times called “a hallucinatory novel about the horrors…
Philosophy Now has named Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon books as an effective weapon against stupidity. It is the first time the award has been bestowed on an author of books for children. From The Guardian: Given in the past…
On November 18th, bestselling author and literary activist James Patterson (Along Came A Spider, Women’s Murder Club) will be presented with The National Book Foundation’s 2015 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. From the National Book Foundation: For…