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InternationalClive James has been shortlisted for the prestigious UK Costa Book Awards for his book of verse, Angels Over Elsinore.Booker Prize winner, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, is in contention in the Novel Category. In all 20 books listed across 5 categories. More | Award Tragic Blog comment 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 Wolf Hall Wins Booker Oct 7 - Hilary Mantel'sWolf Hall has won the UK £50,000 2009 Booker Prize.More | Other shortlisted
Canada - Giller Prize Winner- Nov 10 - Linden MacIntyre, ha, won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Bishop’s Man. Governor General’s Literary Awards (GG's) Shorts Full list Winners 2009 QWF Literary Awardshas won two Quebec Writers' Federation prizes for his non-fiction Bach book, The Cello Suites.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 listPulitzer 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 British Fantasy Awards Winners - Peer-voted award that recognises the best works in Science Fantasy genre More 2009 £10,000 James Tait Black Winner first awarded in 1919. More 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.. MoreWinners Ngä Kupu Ora 2009 - Massey University's celebration of excellence in Māori publishing. Mau Moko: The World of Mäori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku was one of the winners. More |
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Global gateway to 250+Australian, American, British, Canadian, New Zealand Book Awards & Bestsellers. Literary Award Winners. Shortlists. Longlists. Historic Results Australia - NationalPoet's Prose Wins 'The NIB' - 25th Nov, Poet Robert Gray's lyrical family memoir, The Land I Came Through Last , has won this year prize in front of a strong shortlistKnown 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 2009 Australian Children's Choice Award Winners-The last of the Children's Choice Winners for the year are now in including the now 'classic ' Are We There Yet by Alison Lester. Well, are we? - Cool (ACT ) | Bilbys (QLDS) | Koala (NSW) | WAYBRA (WA) | YABBA (VIC +) - 2009 Prime Minster's Literary Award Winners - The Boat Comes in for Nam Le -Again The winner of the 2009 PM's Fiction award is Nam Le (right) for his book of short stories The Boat. Two books and three authors shared the Non-Fiction award. Evelyn Juers for House of Exile:The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann; and Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds for Drawing the Global Colour Line. Details 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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