Australian Winners

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 collection of short stories The Boat.

Two works 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

Poet'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 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

• 2009 Northern Territory Literary Awards Winners -
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• As Big as the State Itself- Queensland Premier's
• 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards -

2009 Miles Franklin Winner

Breath - WINNER By Tim Winton

When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. More

2009 Barbara Jefferis Winner

The Spare Room by Helen Garner, Text

"The Spare Room" offers a powerful, witty, and taut story about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the other called to care for her- more

Australian Book Industry Literary Fiction and Commonwealth Writers' Award Winner

Winner: The Slap, written by Christos Tsiolkas, published by Allen & Unwin 

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced

 

Children & Teen Award News

Bes of American Children's Literature

Jan 21- 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)

 

Book Awards of the World

Global gateway to 250+Australian, American, British, Canadian, New Zealand . Winners shortlists, results from all of the world's leading literary prizes.

International

2009 Costa Book of the Year

Winner: * A Scattering by JAN 28TH, 2010 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

Dec 4 - 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

 

Featured Author-

Sonya Hartnett was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1968. Her first book, Trouble All the Way (1984), was published when she was just fifteen years old, and since then she has written many more books of fiction.

Her novels have been published traditionally as young adult fiction, but her writing often crosses the divide and is also enjoyed by adults.

Her novels include: Wilful Blue (1994), also produced as a play and performed at the Victorian Arts Centre; Sleeping Dogs(1995); Black Foxes (1996), which traces the extraordinary life of Lord Tyrone Sully; and Thursday's Child (2002). Set in the Great Depression, this novel follows the young Harper Flute, as she watches her family's struggle to survive. It won the 2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. What the Birds See (2003), also published in the UK, but published first in Australia as Of A Boy (2000 republished as a Popular Penguin in 2009), tells the story of nine-year-old Adrian, who struggles to understand the disappearance of three local children.

In Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf (2004), Satchel O'Rye and Chelsea Piper, marooned in an Australian backwater with the world passing them by, find their own survival becomes inextricably intwined with that of an animal they believe to be the last-ever Tasmanian wolf.

In both 2000 and 2003, Sonya Hartnett was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelists of the Year. The Silver Donkey and Surrender  were published in 2004 and 2005 respectively,the latter shortlisted for a 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region Best Book).

Her novel the The Ghost's Child, was shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book) and won the 2008 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Older Readers Category.

In the same year, she was awarded the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The award is worth five million Swedish crowns (US$550,000)and is the world’s largest for children’s and youth literature, and the second-largest literature prize in the world.

Sonya Hartnet's latest book, Butterfly, is a novel about the bonds of family, about growing up in suburbia and about the terrifying vulnerability of early adolescence. It is about the costs of interfering in the lives of others, the consequences of being hurt and, ultimately, it is about how we must all eventually leave childhood behind.

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