Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2010 Shortlist

29 Australian titles that have made it onto the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists. For the first time, Young Adult Fiction and Children’s Fiction categories have been added to the awards which are worth $100,000 to each of the category winners. Full Lists

Australian Christian Book of the Year Shortlist

The Australian Christian Book of the Year Award is given annually to an original book written by an Australian citizen normally resident in Australia and published by an Australian publisher. The award recognises and encourages excellence in Australian Christian writing. 2010 Shortlist

The Kibble Literary Award Winner

The Dobbie Literary Award

Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlists- The local book industry's moment in the sun as they celebrate the best in Australian literature. It's huge and the selections are generally a predictor to what will turn-up in State based awards later in the year. More | Blog Comment

2010 NSW Premiers' Literary Award Winners

National Biography Award 2010 Winner

Clare writer and Flinders University Professor Brian Matthews has won the National Biography Award for, Manning Clark A Life.

The $20,000 National Biography Award is administered by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of the award’s benefactors, Geoffrey Cains and Michael Crouch AO. Other shortlisted

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature- The winners of this biennial award are delicious with the superb Tales from Outer Suburbia,by Shaun Tan taking out the $10,000 Premier's award. Full winners list.

Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlists - Stunning, gorgeous, delicious, wonderful, beautiful, relevant, local, ..... more superlatives please mother. The CBCA shortlists present the very cream of Australian children's book writers and illustrators, their judges are world class. This year the books are mouth wateringly attractive, a must for every parent, teaches, librarians, child, grandmother. Love em'. More

Winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2010 is Kristina Olsson, for her book The China Garden (UQP). "Without feeling the need to resolve every absence or mystery, Olsson gently suggests that it is always possible to make new things out of the past, however fractured or painful.” from the judges' reading report. More

Poet's Prose Wins 'The NIB' - Poet Robert Gray's lyrical family memoir, The Land I Came Through Last , has won this year prize in front of a strong shortlist

Known affectionately as the 'The Nib' , The $20,000 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature,acknowledges excellence in research by Australian authors writing literary works of all genres. The award is sponsored by Copyright Agency Limited’s (CAL) Cultural Fund. More | Commentary Award Tragic Blog

NSW History Award 2009 Winners- Australian History Prize ($15,000) Winner : Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (Robin Gerster, Scribe) Prize ($15,000)General History Prize ($15,000) Winner: The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Warwick Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Press)

NSW Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000) Winner: Up on the Hill: A History of St Patrick’s College, Goulburn (David Bollen, UNSW Press) Young People’s History Prize ($15,000) Winner: * Captain Cook’s Apprentice (Anthony Hill, Penguin)

Australian Vogel - Lisa Lang’s Utopian Man and Kristel Thornell’s Night Street shared top honours. Both manuscripts will be published by Allen & Unwin. More

Neddies' 2009 - 30 Aug- The Ned Kelly Crime Awards.Tall Man won again. A tie in the Best Fiction category with just three contenders- Pikers Details

Tall Man by Chloe Hopper Wins $20,000 John Button Prize- for her book The Tall Man -- Death and Life on Palm Island , about the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island. Book details + shortlists

Sisters in Crime Davitt Award Winners - Tall Man won the Non-fiction . A Beautiful Place To Die, the debut novel by Sydney-based filmmaker turned crime writer, Malla Nunn, best Adult Fiction. Details

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International Book Award News

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music; marking the 94th edition of the annual American awards. More

The USA National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 active book reviewers. Each year they present awards for the best book in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism. 2009 Winners (awarded in 2010)

Winner Best Translated Book Award Gail Hareven for The Confessions of Noa Weber , translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu and published by Melville House Press. More

Costa Book of the Year

Winner: * A Scattering by Christopher Reid (more...)

Judges: "A life-affirming collection, full of urgency and feeling."

Publisher: Arete Books

Lucinda Gane, Christopher Reid's wife, died in October 2005. A Scattering is his tribute to her and consists of four poetic sequences, the first written during her final illness, and the other three at intervals after her death.

Such is the anticipated rush for the book that our supplier, Fishpond, does not have a single coy available ( as of 28th Jan). Try Amazon UK if desperate. More details + shortlisted

USA National Book Circle Critics Nominees

Australian Tale Wins UK John Llwellyn Rhys Literary Prize - 1st Dec- Evie Wyld (left) has won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize with her debut effort. The bookseller won £5000 for After The Fire, A still Voice . More | Award Tragic Blog

international

Dec 10 - UK Daggers- Crime Writers' Association Awards - All the 2009 Daggers have now been awarded. The Gold Dagger Award was won by former Franciscan friar. Apparently he left the order to become a barrister and then a writer - identity resolved. He won the prestigious prize for, A Whispered Name: A Father Anselm Novel, Book 3 (Father Anselm Novels). All the Dagger winners

- Guardian First Book Award Winner- An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah, Faber (short story) - s. more

Wolf Hall Wins Booker Oct 7 - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the UK £50,000 2009 Booker Prize .More | Other shortlisted

Scottish Book of the Year - Dec 1- A biography of Robert Burns, The Bard by Robert Crawford, has won the £10,000 prize at the 2009 Saltire Society Literary Awards. More

Herta Müller wins 2009 Nobel Prize Oct - Herta Muller (right) , a German writer born in 1953 in a village in Western Romania, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. More

2009 £10,000 James Tait Black Winner first awarded in 1919. More

USA- Nov 19- National Book Award Winners> American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation- Oct 12- recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.... 2009 list

Pulitzer Prize Winners - The Fiction Pulitzer was won by Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (Random House). The Biography or Autobiography Pulitzer was awarded to American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham . The General Nonfiction Pulitzer was won by, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon

History category was won by The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed and finally Poetry won by The Shadow of Sirius , by W. S. Merwin. Details

Winners of 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards

Nov 18 - For the first time in the history of the Awards one book has won in both categories of children’s literature (text and illustration): Harvey by author Hervé Bouchard and illustrator Janice Nadeau. Full lists

Giller Prize Winner- Nov 10 - Linden MacIntyre, a veteran broadcast journalist best known for his investigative reporting, won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize Tuesday evening for hisnovel The Bishop’s Man

MacIntyre earns CDN$50,000 for winning the Giller Prize.

The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Fall by Colin McAdam
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

Across the Tasman New Zealand-

Montana Winners Emily Perkins for, Novel About My Wife. JillTrevelyan won the non-fiction award for Rita Angus: An Artist's Life. Kate de Goldi's, The 10pm Question, picked-up the Readers Choice.. More

Winners Ngä Kupu Ora 2009 - MasseyUniversity's celebration of excellence in Māori publishing.Moko: The World of Mäori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku was one of the winners. More

NZ Society of Authors Winners - A story about a high-school sex scandal that jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power, The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton won Best First Book .

Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press) won hte Poetry prize and Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand) the Non-fiction. More

Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners The Best Novel -Adult Category Russell Kirkpatrick, with Dark Heart (Path of Revenge in 2008). Newcomer, Helen Lowe, Best Novel - YA Category for , Thornspell. Details

Inaugural The Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize Winner

The Awa Book of New Zealand Science edited by Rebecca Priestley- Full lists

 

Children & Teen Award News

Best of American Children's Literature

- A huge day in the world of American Children and Teen Book Awards as a multiplicity of literary prizes are  announced during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting. Full lists

The winners of the 2009 Children's Peace Literature Award are:

Audrey Goes to Town and Winter of Grace were selected from seven short-listed books and from more than 100 entries of books for children published between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2009. More

2009 Australian Children's Choice Winners-The last of the Children'sChoice Winners for the year are now in including the classic Are We There Yet by Alison Lester (NSW Koalas). Well, are we? - Cool (ACT ) | Bilbys (QLDS) | Koala (NSW) | WAYBRA (WA) | YABBA (VIC +) -

Childrens Book Council of Australia 2009 Winners- Stunning as always

2009 NZ Post Children's Winners - Kate De Goldi's, The 10PM Question, NZ Post Book of the Year and YA Award. The Were-Nana written by Melinda Szymanik, illustrated by Sarah Nelisiwe Anderson the Children's Choice Award. Seven winners Details.

Librarians Make Their Choice- LIANZA (Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) Children’s Book Awards celebrate New Zealand writers and illustrators. Esther Glen Award (Fiction) | Russell Clarke Award (Illustration) | Elsie Locke (Nonfiction | Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori

Margaret Mahy Wins America's Boston Globe Horn swith Bubble Trouble

UK Booktrust Early Year Winners Three categories honoured; Baby Book Award; Pre-School Award; Best Emerging Illustrator. More

Winner 2009 UK Carnegie Medal SIOBHAN DOWD,Bog Child
(Age range: 12+)

This is a beautifully written and controlled novel, strong on dialogue but with some beautiful descriptive phrases as well. More

2009 Winner The Booktrust Teenage Prize - Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book This chillingly fantastical tale is Gaiman’s first full-length novel since his internationally bestselling and highly acclaimed Coraline. Bod is alive…but his friends are not. Raised by ghosts, werewolves and other ethereal graveyard inhabitants, how will Bod reconcile the world of the living and the dead? More

2009 Canadian Governor-General Literary Awards Children’s Literature - Winner
Caroline Pignat, Ottawa, Greener Grass: The Famine Years. follows the disintegration of the Byrne family during Ireland’s Great Famine of 1847, when landlords ruled without mercy, children could be taken away to prison, and thousands were left to starve. A timeless story of courage, family loyalty and the resilience of the human spirit.

Hervé Bouchard, Saguenay (Quebec), Harvey. (Les Éditions de la Pastèque; distributed by Socadis) Hervé Bouchard makes us feel the confusion and helplessness of a little boy faced with the death of his father. His surprising and extremely sensitive writing is deeply moving. Through a series of poetically powerful metaphors, he allows us the freedom to explore the multiple layers of his story.

Children’s Literature – Illustration
Jirina Marton, Colborne (Ontario), Bella’s Tree, text by Janet Russell.
(Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)