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Thu, November 19th, 2009
McCann, Stiles, Hoose, and Waldrop win National Book Award
Posted by: Courtney

The NBAs managed to avoid major controversy in the Young People’s Lit category, choosing  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose as the winner over David Small’s Stitches. Awards were presented last night at a black tie dinner.
The other winners were:
Fiction
Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann 
Nonfiction
The First Tycoon: The Epic [...]


Wed, November 18th, 2009
Melina Marchetta’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Daniel

Mysterious, complicated, and running on at least two parallel narrative tracks, Jellicoe Road, to say the least, is not for everyone. That’s the main reason why the announcement of the book as the winner of the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award (administered by ALA Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by Booklist) was such [...]


Wed, November 11th, 2009
MacIntyer Wins Giller; “Funny” Winners Announced
Posted by: Courtney

The Bishop’s Man won Linden MacIntyre the $50,000 Giller prize. The other short-listed nominees were:
Fall, by Colin McAdam
The Disappeared, by Kim Echlin
The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels
In other news, the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize went to Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky, by Philip Ardagh and Mr. Pusskins Best in Show, by [...]


Mon, November 9th, 2009
Margo Lanagan’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Ian

 
Given some of the more intense scenes and themes in Margo Lanagan’s dark, boundary-pushing, and extravagantly written Tender Morsels, it wasn’t outrageous to expect something a little scandalous in her acceptance speech at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA Young Adult Services Association and sponsored by Booklist). Instead, Lanagan went for the reverse shocker and offered [...]


Wed, November 4th, 2009
2009 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced
Posted by: Courtney

Here are the highlights:
Life Achievement
Ellen Asher and Jane Yolen
Novel
The Shadow Year, by Jeffrey Ford
 
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
 
Novella
“If Angels Fight,” by Richard Bowes
 
Short Story
“26 Monkeys, also the Abyss,” by Kij Johnson
Anthology
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia
Collection
The Drowned Life, by Jeffrey Ford
Artist
Shaun Tan
The full list of winners can be found here.


Wed, October 28th, 2009
Macavity Award Winners Named
Posted by: Courtney

Five books were named Macavity Award winners by the Mystery Readers International organization: 
Best Mystery Novel
Where Memories Lie, by Deborah Crombie
Best First Mystery
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Best Nonfiction/Critical
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study, by Frankie Y. Bailey
Best Mystery Short Story
“The Night Things Changed,” by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane & [...]


Mon, October 26th, 2009
Awards Round-Up
Posted by: Courtney

Several awards-related news items were announced within that last week. Here’s the latest:
The 2009 Guardian Children’s Prize went to Exposure, Mal Peet’s update of Othello.
At the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, winners were announced in eight categories for the 2009 Anthony Awards:
Best Novel
The Brass Verdict, by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by [...]


Tue, October 20th, 2009
E. Lockhart’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Gillian

Author E. Lockhart isn’t afraid of a good argument, as she made clear in her acceptance speech for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by Booklist).  Readers have had wildly different responses to the book’s title character, a prep-school sophomore [...]


Thu, October 15th, 2009
Controversy! Is Something Rotten in the NBA?
Posted by: Ian

As you might know from reading 10 inches below this post (or, if for some reason you gets infos from somewhere else other than our little Likely Stories, you already know from anywhere else), the National Book Award nominations were announced yesterday. And while the NBAs are no stranger to odd picks, especially in the [...]


Wed, October 14th, 2009
National Book Award Finalists Announced
Posted by: Courtney

Man, where did the year go? Awards season is gearing up again. The National Book Award finalists were announced today:
Fiction
American Salvage, by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips

Far North, by Marcel Theroux
Nonfiction
Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook, by David [...]





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