Literary Awards

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• Women Take Top UK Story Awards

  
  EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection — Authority: 536
  2009 was the year of “the sudden and splendid blossoming of the short story,” declared the Guardian, observing that women have picked up three major UK prizes this year. Two of the three have been published in the U.S.Why would women’s work stand out in this short form, when women are less often awarded ...
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• Herta Müller. No. 12.8.2009. 155.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 120
  Herta Müller Nobel Prize in Literature. 2009. Works in English The Passport / translated by Martin Chalmers. – London : Serpent’s Tail, 1989. – Translation of Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt The Land of Green Plums / translated by Michael Hofmann. – New York : Metropolitan Books, 1996. – ...
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• Literary Winners

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 129
  Have to some catching up to do with letting you know about recent winners of literary prizes. Petina Gappah has won the 2009 Guardian First Book Award for her short story collection An Elegy for Easterly . Claire Armistead, chair of the judges, praised the books as a: ...humane and disarmingly funny mosaic of ...
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• Just Girls for Short Story Prize

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 129
  The BBC announced an all-female line-up for its National Short Story Prize : Naomi Aldermans Other Peoples Gods Kate Clanchys The Not-Dead and The Saved Sara Maitlands Moss Witch Jane Rogerss Hitting Trees with Sticks Lionel Shrivers Exchange Rates Each story will be broadcast, starting December ...
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• Audio Interview with 2009 GG Award Winner Kate Pullinger, conducted by Nigel Beale.

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  (last night at Art Matters)Kate Pullinger is a novelist who also writes for film and various digital platforms. Born in Cranbrook British Columbia she went to high school on Vancouver Island,#160;dropped out of McGill University, worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon, traveled, and eventually settled in ...
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• Costa Shortlists

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 129
  The shortlists for the various categories of the Costa Prize have been announced, and heres the full list : Costa First Novel Award The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath John the Revelator by Peter Murphy Beauty by Raphael Selbourne The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw ...
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• Herta Müller. No. 11.24.2009. 150.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 120
  Nobel Prize in Literature 2009. Herta Müller at the complete review is here. “Her aspiration to purity, moral included, is like an inner sword, it’s as if she had a a sword instead of a spine, as in one of Kafka’s dreams. (…) The writings of Herta Müller are indeed the product of an intense obsession, ...
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• Nonfiction for Older (Kid) Readers

  
  Chicken Spaghetti — Authority: 479
  The Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction category of the Cybils awards is so hot that its smokin. 2009 has been a very good year for childrens nonfiction. Two of the five finalists for the National Book Award in Young Peoples Literature were nonfiction titles:  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice  and Charles ...
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• “This is the Function of Books.”–Colum McCann. No. 11.22.2009. 147.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 120
  “This is the function of books — we learn how to live even if we weren’t there. Fiction gives us access to a very real history. Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.” “ This is the Function of Books. “–Colum McCann. Let the Great ...
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• Another Year of Bad Sex

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 129
  Maybe Neil Gaiman got it succinctly right on Twitter a few hours ago : J ust read the Guardian Bad Sex Award contenders ... I may never write a sex scene ever again. O Roth. O Banville. Argh. Yes, its that time of year again when literary lust because fodder for fun. The Guardian has extracts from all the ...
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• Colum McCann Takes NBA Fiction Prize

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 129
  The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York ...
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• Winners of 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards Announced: Children’s Lit, YA Rules!

  
  Julie Burtinshaw — Authority: 99
  Montreal, November 17, 2009 – The names of winners of the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced today by the Canada Council for the Arts. The seven English and seven French awards are given to authors, illustrators and translators and in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, non‑fiction, ...
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