Bog Child wins Carnegie Medal; Locus Winners Announced
Posted by: Courtney
Last week, the UK’s Carnegie Medal for Literature (not to be confused with that other Carnegie Medal) was awarded posthumously to Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer three months after Bog Child was completed. With only three novels under her belt and a fourth on the way, Solace of the Road (to be released Oct. 2009), The London Eye Mystery (2008) and A Swift Pure Cry (2007), Dowd was relatively new to world of children’s lit, leaving many to grieve the loss of an author just getting started. However it’s clear that illness did not stand in the way of her impeccable writing. Librarian Joy Court, chair of the judging panel said the following of Dowd:
“To be able to write like that when she was going through what she was going through is just astonishing – the sheer beauty of the language, the descriptions of the environment; she has such an amazing sense of place.” (”Carnegie medal posthumously awarded to Siobhan Dowd,” by Alison Flood, the Guardian)
In other news, the Locus Award for Science Fiction winners were announced today:
Science fiction novel
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
Fantasy novel
Lavinia, by Ursula K. Le Guin
First novel
Singularity’s Ring, by Paul Melko
Young adult book
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Novella
Pretty Monsters, by Kelly Link
Novelette
Pump Six, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Short Story
“Exhalation” (Eclipse Two), by Ted Chiang
Anthology
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Collection
Pump Six and Other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Non-Fiction/Art Book
Coraline: The Graphic Novel, by Neil Gaiman; adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
