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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.
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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 & [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Wed, October 7th, 2009
Mantel Wins Man Booker; Frazier wins Thurber
Posted by: Courtney
Hilary Mantel took home the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, the “prohibitive favorite” of the shortlist.
In completely different genre of literary prizes, Ian Frazier’s Lamentations of the Father won the Thurber Prize. You can view the shortlist here.
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Wed, September 30th, 2009
M.T. Anderson’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Gillian
There’s no question that the Printz Honor–winning Octavian Nothing duet presents readers with an intellectual challenge. In his National Book Award acceptance speech for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume One: The Pox Party, Anderson himself described the books as “a 900-page two volume historical epic for teens, written in [...]
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Thu, September 24th, 2009
Awards Round-Up
Posted by: Courtney
Over the last week quite a number of books received awards. Here’s the best of best:
The 2009 NAIBA Books of the Year Prize winners are:
Fiction
A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
Nonfiction
Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg
Trade Paperback Original
Buffalo Lockjaw, by Greg Ames
Picture Book
The Curious Garden, by Peter Brown
Children’s Literature
If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
Paul Auster (Invisible, [...]
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Thu, September 17th, 2009
Terry Pratchett’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Daniel
Terry Pratchett’s Nation is so exciting and funny that’s it’s almost too easy to forget the tragedy at its center. Young Mau is paddling back to his tiny island nation after spending a month alone as part of his manhood ritual. When he gets there he finds that everyone has been wiped out by a [...]
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