Awards Round Up
Posted by: Courtney Jones
Things have really been heating up on the literary awards circuit. Here’s the latest in finalists news:
Ladies and Gentlemen, start placing your bets. Right now the odds are in favor of David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet to take the The Man Booker on Oct. 12. Get good look at Mitchell’s long list competitors on the Man Booker Prize website.
Finalists for the Crime Writers’ Association Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, affectionately knows as the “Daggers,” have been announced. Winners will be revealed Oct. 8th.
Last, but certainly not least, three finalists have been named for the Thurber Prize for American Humor:
Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo, by Jancee Dunn
How I Became a Famous Novelist, by Steve Hely
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, by Rhoda Janzen
And now, on to the winners:
R. J. Ellory won a handmade, engraved Theakstons Old Peculier (mini) beer barrel for his novel A Simple Act of Violence on July 22nd at the the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Sure there was a £3,000 prize for Crime Novel of the year, but we all know the real reason he’ll have boasting privileges at the pub.
Here’s a smattering of winners from the International Thriller Writers Awards:
Best Hard Cover Novel
The Neighbor, by Lisa Gardner
Best Paperback Original Novel
The Coldest Mile, by Tom Piccirilli
Best First Novel
Running from the Devil, by Jamie Freveletti
Best Short Story
A Stab in the Heart, by Twist Phelan
For a complete list of winners and nominees visit the International Thriller Writers website.
Ashley Bryan (All Things Bright and Beautiful, 2010) won the 2011 Regina Medal from the Catholic Library Association for a lifetime of achievement. He will receive his medal at a ceremony on April 27th, 2011 in New Orleans.
September 9th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
[...] For those of you with money on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, this news will be unpleasant. The Man Booker shortlist has been announced, and David Mitchell’s novel doesn’t make an appearance. Here are the final contenders: Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey [...]