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2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

April 16, 2007 admin 0

• Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy• General Non-fiction: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright• Biography: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate• History: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff• Poetry: Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway• Drama: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire A complete rundown of prize-winners (both books and news media) […]

Philip Roth Named Winner of First Saul Bellow Award

April 2, 2007 admin 0

Philip Roth has been named the winner of the first ever PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, “a $40,000 prize named for the late Nobel laureate and one of Roth’s closest friends and literary heroes,” says AP. The new award was created in cooperation with the Bellow estate and was made possible by a grant from author and philanthropist Evelyn Stefansson Nef. The PEN/Saul Bellow Award will be awarded every two years. Roth […]

Don’t Judge a Blook by Its … er… Cover

March 14, 2007 admin 1

Where many writers — yours truly included — keep personal blogs in part to let readers of their books sneak a peek inside the author’s skull, increasingly things are working the other way around: where the ramblings inside a human skull are given air on a blog that eventually — and one way or another — ends up being available in book form. Author Cory Doctorow even thinks that writing that begins in blog form […]

Hunting for an Envelope

March 12, 2007 admin 0

While trying to find an explanation of the Planeta Award for Pedro Blas Gonzalez’s review of The Albanian Affairs, I came across the list of literary awards on Wikipedia. Now I’m not going to get into a discussion on the usefulness — or otherwise — of this resource. This isn’t the time or the place. No debating, for instance, the merits of an unsupervised collective contributing to a megalithic resource that is international — and […]

Kiriyama Shortlist Announced

February 27, 2007 admin 0

The shortlist for the 2007 Kiriyama Prize has been announced. One winner each from fiction and non-fiction will be selected to share the $30,000 prize. In 2007, shortlisted writers hail from Canada, China, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Though eligible writers can be from anywhere in the world, books that are considered for the prize must be available in English and published in the United States or Canada. The goal of […]

Three Authors Awarded Order of Canada

February 22, 2007 admin 0

Authors Howard Engel, Barbara Gowdy and Frances Itani are among the 55 new members to the Order of Canada which, according to CBC Arts, “was established in 1967 to honour Canadians whose extraordinary achievements or outstanding service in various fields have made a difference across the country.” Says the CBC: The latest inductees will receive their insignia from the Governor General at a Rideau Hall ceremony later this year. Any Canadian may be nominated for […]