Diagram Prize 2012
One of my fave literary prizes. The Diagram Prize is awarded by The Bookseller magazine each year to the book with the oddest title. The prize began in 1978 as a way of alleviating boredom at the Frankfurt Book Fair with Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice its inaugural winner. The 2012 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Costa Book Awards 2011 Category Winners
The winners of the various categories in the Costa Book Awards were announced in the UK overnight. The winner in each category receives £5,000. From these category winners the Costa Book of the Year 2011 will be chosen, the winner receiving a further £30,000. The Costa Book of the Year 2011 will be announced on 24th January [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Costa Awards Shortlist
The Costa Book Awards recognise the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. They are unique in having five categories, the winner in each category winning £5,000. The winner of the overall Costa Book of the Year, which will be announced Tuesday 24th January 2012, and will get an additional £30,000. The Costa [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man Booker Prize winner announced
Three times shortlisted author Julian Barnes is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 for his novel, The Sense of an Ending. The Sense of an Ending is his first novel since 2005. His previously shortlisted novels are Arthur and George (2005), England, England (1998) and Flaubert’s Parrot(1984). Barnes has won several [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fairfield Library win in NSW Premier’s History Awards
Cabrogal to Fairfield City; a history of a multicultural community won the NSW Community and Regional History category in the NSW Premier’s History Awards last night at the presentation dinner which also marked the beginning of History Week. The judges said Cabrogal to Fairfield City is ”a magisterial history…. a study of the contribution and perceptions of all the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hot off the press from the UK – the six shortlisted novels for the 2011 Man Booker Prize are : Julian Barnes : The Sense of an Ending Carol Birch : Jamrach’s Menagerie Patrick DeWitt : The Sisters Brothers Esi Edugyan : Half Blood Blues Stephen Kelman : Pigeon English AD Miller : Snowdrops [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011
Regulars will know that this is one of my favourite literary prizes. The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is different from other contests because it rewards bad writing – in honour of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 novel Paul Clifford and its much-quoted opening, “It was a dark and stormy night”. Contestants are required to compose bad opening [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Man Booker Longlist
The thirteen books on the Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist were announced last night. The longlisted titles were chosen by a panel of five judges chaired by author and former Director-General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington from a whopping 138 books. The so-called ‘Man Booker Dozen’ include : one former Man Booker Prize winner (Alan [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Australian Book Industry Award Winners
Popular comedian-turned-author Anh Do has cleaned up at last night’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) presentation winning Book of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and Biography of the Year. In the latter category Anh Do shared first place with musician Paul Kelly. In his popular memoir, The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do describes his family’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlists
Federal Arts Minister, Simon Crean, has announced the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists. Mr Crean said being shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards is a great achievement for authors that will bring further public recognition of their writing. The judging panels were enormously impressed by the breadth of talent displayed in this year’s [...]
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