Desmond Elliott Prize 2008-2013

from Desmond Elliott Prize and wikipedia, accessed 7/5/2013

The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for the best debut novel written in English and published in the UK. The winning novel can be from any genre of fiction and must exhibit depth and breadth with a compelling narrative. The winner receives GB£10,000. The prize is named in honour of the "distinguished" late publisher and literary agent, Desmond Elliott.

Winners and shortlists

2008 Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith 
Sunday at The Cross Bones by John Walsh (Fourth Estate))

2009 Blackmoor by Edward Hogan (Simon & Schuster)
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi (Fourth Estate)
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn (Jonathan Cape)

2010 The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw (Atlantic Books)
Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen (Tindal Street Press)
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley (Picador

2011 Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph (Fourth Estate)
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury Publishing)

2012 The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen (Chatto & Windus)
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness (Seren)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)

2013 The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence

Commonwealth Writers' Prize (International) 1987-2011

2011 info from Commonwealth Foundation accessed 3/14/11

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, which recognizes "ground-breaking works of fiction from across the globe," has named its 2011 regional prize winners. The overall Best Book and Best First Book choices will be honored at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on May 21. The regional prize winners are:

Africa
Best Book: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Best First Book: Happiness is a Four-letter Word by Cynthia Jele (South Africa)

Caribbean and Canada
Best Book: Room by Emma Donoghue (Canada)
Best First Book: Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best (Canada)

South Asia and Europe
Best Book: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetby David Mitchell (U.K.)
Best First Book: Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller (U.K.)

South East Asia and Pacific
Best Book: That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Australia)
Best First Book: A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (New Zealand)

2010
British author Rana Dasgupta's novel Solo won the £10,000 (US$15,485) Commonwealth Writers' prize, the Guardian reported. Judges praised Dasgupta's "innovation, ambition, courage and effortlessly elegant prose," and chair of judges Nicholas Hasluck placed the author "at the cutting edge of responding to the chaos of our times."

The best first novel prize went to Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest, who was praised by Hasluck for her innovative use of magical realism in the Australian outback.

2010 Shortlist
Best Book:
Africa: The Double Crown by Marie Heese
The Caribbean and Canada: Galore by Michael Crummey
S. Asia and Europe: Solo by Rana Dasgupta -- Winner!
S.E. Asia and Pacific: The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt

Best First Book:
Africa: I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Caribbean and Canada: Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
S. Asia and Europe: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
S.E. Asia and Pacific: Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest -- Winner!

2009
Australian Christos Tsiolkas has won the £10,000 (US$15,337) 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Slap, "his edgily controversial novel about the consequences of hitting someone else's child," the Guardian reported. The £5,000 first book award went to Mohammed Hanif of Pakistan for A Case of Exploding Mangoes.

The Commonwealth Writers' Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, is presented annually by the Commonwealth Foundation with the support of the Macquarie Group Foundation. The Prize aims to reward the best Commonwealth fiction written in English, by both established and new writers, and to take their works to a global audience, thereby increasing appreciation of and building understanding between cultures.

The Prize is fully international in its character, administration and judging. The Prize covers the Commonwealth regions of Africa, the Caribbean and Canada, Europe and South Asia and South East Asia and Pacific. It is a prize that is both regional and global.

In each of the four regions, two prizes of £1,000 are awarded: one for the Best Book and one for the Best First Book. By offering prizes of Best First Book and Best Book, not only are some of the finest writers on the planet rewarded, but new writers are encouraged to find their footing in the literary world.

The eight winners that emerge from the regional judging are announced in March and then go through to the final phase of the competition, to decide the overall Commonwealth winners for Best Book and Best First Book, with prizes of £10,000 and £5,000 respectively.

In addition, the overall winner of the Best Book Prize is customarily invited to London for an audience The Head of the Commonwealth, HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Previous Winners:

Best Book Winners 1987-2008
* 1987 - Olive Senior, Summer Lightning
* 1988 - Festus Iyayi, Heroes
* 1989 - Janet Frame, The Carpathians
* 1990 - Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
* 1991 - David Malouf, The Great World
* 1992 - Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
* 1993 - Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
* 1994 - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
* 1995 - Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
* 1996 - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
* 1997 - Earl Lovelace, Salt
* 1998 - Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
* 1999 - Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
* 2000 - John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
* 2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
* 2002 - Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish
* 2003 - Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
* 2004 - Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
* 2005 - Andrea Levy, Small Island
* 2006 - Kate Grenville, The Secret River
* 2007 - Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
* 2008 - Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes [3]
* 2009 - Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap
2010 - Rana Dasgupta's, Solo

Best First Book Winners 1987-2008
* 1989 - Bonnie Burnard, Women of Influence
* 1990 - John Cranna, Visitors
* 1991 - Pauline Melville, Shape-Shifter
* 1992 - Robert Antoni, Divina Trace
* 1993 - Gita Hariharan, The Thousand Faces of Night
* 1994 - Keith Oatley, The Case of Emily V
* 1995 - Adib Khan, Seasonal Adjustments
* 1996 - Vikram Chandra, Red Earth, Pouring Rain
* 1997 - Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
* 1998 - Tim Wynveen, Angel Falls
* 1999 - Kerri Sakamoto, The Electrical Field
* 2000 - Jeffrey Moore, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
* 2001 - Zadie Smith, White Teeth
* 2002 - Manu Herbstein, Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
* 2003 - Sarah Hall, Haweswater
* 2004 - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
* 2005 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
* 2006 - Mark McWatt, Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement
* 2007 - D. Y. Béchard, Vandal Love
* 2008 - Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age[3]

* 2009 - Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes

2010 - Glenda Guest, Siddon Rock

B&N Discover Great New Writers (2005,2008-10)

2010  The finalists for Barnes & Noble's 2010 Discover Great New Writers Awards are:
Fiction
Kim Echlin for The Disappeared (Black Cat) --Winner!
Nic Pizzolatto for Galveston (Scribner)
Eric Puchner for Model Home (Scribner)

Nonfiction
David R. Dow for The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve) --Winner!
Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner)
Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown)

2009  The finalists for Barnes & Noble's 2009 Discover Great New Writers Awards are:
Fiction                      
Barb Johnson for More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial)  
Victor Lodato for Mathilda Savitch (FSG)              
C.E. Morgan for All the Living (FSG)

Nonfiction
Dave Cullen for Columbine (Twelve)
Toby Lester for The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name (Twelve)
Neil White for In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (Morrow)

2008 - The winners of the 16th annual (2008) Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards:
Fiction
* Winner: The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
* Second-place honors: The Book of Getting Even by Benjamin Taylor
* Third-place honors: Sway by Zachary Lazar

Nonfiction
* Winner: Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
* Second-place honors: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner, Dad read this, called it "superficial"
* Third-place honors: Blue Sky July by Nia Wyn

2005 - Awards: B/N Discover Great New Writers;
Fiction
* Kitty Fitzgerald for Pigtopia
* Uzodinma Iweala for Beasts of No Nation
* Catherine Tudish for Tenney's Landing

Nonfiction
* Louise Brown, for The Dancing Girls of Lahore
* Nathaniel Fick, for One Bullet Away
* Martin Moran, for The Tricky Part

Los Angeles Times Book Awards 1980-2009

2010 Finalists
2010 Robert Kirsch Award
Robert Kirsch, whose idea became the inspiration for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, was the newspaper’s book critic from 1952 until his death in 1980. In addition to writing criticism, Kirsch was a novelist, editor and teacher.

Winner Beverly Cleary

2010 Innovator’s Award
The Innovator’s Award recognizes the people and institutions that are doing cutting edge work to bring books, publishing and storytelling into the future, whether in terms of new business models, new technologies or new applications of narrative art.

Winner
Powell’s Books, Portland, Oregon

Biography Finalists
Miranda Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (Random House)
Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir (TWELVE/Hachette Book Group)
Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Random House)

Current Interest Finalists
Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon & Schuster)
Sebastian Junger, War (TWELVE/Hachette Book Group)
Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company)
Joe Nocera & Bethany McLean, All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco/HarperCollins)

Fiction Finalists
Rick Bass, Nashville Chrome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Richard Bausch, Something is Out There: Stories (Knopf)
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Frederick Reiken, Day for Night (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalists
Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Leslie Jamison, The Gin Closet (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You (Counterpoint)
Christine Sneed, Portraits of a Few People I’ve Made Cry: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press)
Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters (St. Martin’s Press)

Graphic Novel Finalists
Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books)
Dash Shaw, Bodyworld (Pantheon)
Karl Stevens, The Lodger (KSA Publishing)
C. Tyler, You’ll Never Know, Book Two: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics)
Jim Woodring, Weathercraft (Fantagraphics)

History Finalists
Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (The Penguin Press)
John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq
Susan Dunn, Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought To Change the Democratic Party
Thomas Powers,The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
Steven Solomon,Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (HarperCollins)

Mystery / Thriller Finalists
Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)
Tana French, Faithful Place (Viking)
Laura Lippman, I’d Know You Anywhere (William Morrow)
Stuart Neville, Collusion (SoHo Press)
Kelli Stanley, City of Dragons (Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book)

Poetry Finalists
Henri Cole, Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
Yehoshua November, God’s Optimism (Main Street Rag)
Craig Santos Perez, From Unincorporated Territory {Saina}, (Omnidawn)
Ed Roberson, To See the Earth Before the End of the World, (Wesleyan University Press)

Science & Technology Finalists
Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company)
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner)
Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury USA)
Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books/HarperCollins)
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown)

Young Adult Literature Finalists
Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon 
Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
Rick Yancey, The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist)

The winners of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, including the first graphic novel award, are:

Biography: Linda Gordon for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Norton)
Current Interest: Dave Eggers for Zeitoun (McSweeney's)
Fiction: Rafael Yglesias, for A Happy Marriage (Scribner)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Philipp Meyer for American Rust
Graphic Novel: David Mazzucchelli for Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)
History: Kevin Starr for Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963
Mystery/Thriller: Stuart Neville for The Ghosts of Belfast (Soho Press)
Poetry: Brenda Hillman for Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press)
Science and Technology: Graham Farmelo for The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Young Adult Literature: Elizabeth Partridge for Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary

In addition, Evan S. Connell won the Robert Kirsch Award lifetime achievement award, and Dave Eggers won the first Innovator's Award.

The awards were announced during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend. For finalists and other information, go to latimesbookprizes.com.

Winners of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Awards were named last Friday at "a scaled-down awards ceremony . . . with as much enthusiasm and humor as any of the more grandly produced affairs of recent years," the Times reported.

The winners included:

Biography: Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
Current Interest: Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
Fiction: Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Finding Nouf: A Novel by Zoe Ferraris
History: Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
Mystery/Thriller--Envy the Night by Michael Koryta
Poetry: Watching the Spring Festival: Poems by Frank Bidart
Science and Technology: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
Young Adult Literature: Nation by Terry Pratchett

Robert Kirsch Award Winner: Robert Alter (mostly biblical books, what is this award?)

2008 Shortlist:
Biography:
H.W. Brands, "A Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
Ernest Freeberg, "Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent"
Paula J. Giddings, "Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching"
Jon Meacham, "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
Jackie Wullschlager, "Chagall: A Biography"

Current Interest:
Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century"
Dexter Filkins, "The Forever War"
Barton Gellman, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency"
Jane Mayer, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals"
Jill Bolte Taylor, "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey"

Fiction:
Sebastian Barry, "The Secret Scripture"
Richard Price, "Lush Life"

Marilynne Robinson, "Home"

Joan Silber, "The Size of the World"

Marisa Silver, "The God of War"

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction:
Uwem Akpan, "Say You're One of Them"
Zoe Ferraris, "Finding Nouf"
Sadie Jones, "The Outcast"
Roma Tearne, "Mosquito"

David Wroblewski, "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"

History:
Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War"
Drew Gilpin Faust, "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War"
Mark Mazower, "Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe"
Thomas J. Sugrue, "Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North"
Rick Wartzman, "Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath"

Mystery/Thriller:
Colin Harrison, "The Finder"
Michael Koryta, "Envy the Night"
Simon Lewis, "Bad Traffic: An Inspector Jian Novel"
Nina Revoyr, "The Age of Dreaming"

Tom Rob Smith, "Child 44"

Poetry
Frank Bidart, "Watching the Spring Festival: Poems"
Jorie Graham, "Sea Change: Poems"
Marie Howe, "The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems"
Cole Swensen, "Ours"
Connie Voisine, "Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream"

Science & Technology:
Avery Gilbert, "What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life"
Kenneth R. Miller, "Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul"
Martin J.S. Rudwick, "Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform"
Leonard Susskind, "The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics"
Carl Zimmer, "Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life"

Young Adult Literature:
Candace Fleming, "The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary"

Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"

Oscar Hijuelos, "Dark Dude"

Nate Powell, "Swallow Me Whole"

Terry Pratchett, "Nation"

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes "currently have nine single-title categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). In addition, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition".

The Book Prize program was founded by the late Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985; an award named after him was added a year after his death in 1990. The Robert Kirsch Award is named after the longtime Times book critic who died in 1980. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though English does not have to be the original language of the work. The author of each winning book and the Kirsch Award recipient receives a citation and $1,000.


Previous Winners:

Biography

2007: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2006: Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
2005: Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
2004: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2003: American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith
2002: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3 by Robert A. Caro
2001: Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
2000: Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr.
1999: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
1998: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1997: Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus

1996: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

1995: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing
1994: Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
1993; Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher
1992: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1993 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
1991: Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T.H. Watkins
1990: A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward
1989: This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
1988: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox
1987: Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn
1986: Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack
1985: Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell
1984: The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel
1983: The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour Hersh
1982: Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen
1981: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
1980: (Biography award concurrent with this year's History award)


Current interest

2007: Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet
2006: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma
2005: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by Anthony Shadid
2004: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
2003: The New Chinese Empire -- And What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill
2002: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine
2001: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
2000: Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
1999: Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter) by Mitchell Duneier
1998: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
1997: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
1996: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
1995: Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
1994: Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
1993: Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry
1992: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
1991: Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
1990: Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison, Jr.
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
1988: Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider
1987: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
1985: Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton
1984: Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
1983: Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
1982: The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
1981: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
1980: Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury [Winner of the General Award--no Current Interest Award this year]


Fiction

2008: Home by Marilynne Robinson

2007: Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
2006: A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
2005: Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
2004: The Master by Colm Tóibín
2003: Train: A Novel by Pete Dexter
2002: Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
2001: Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
2000: Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
1999: Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
1998: The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
1997: In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
1996: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
1995: The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
1994: Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

1993: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

1992: Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
1991: White People by Allan Gurganus
1990: Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien
1989: The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon
1988: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez
1987: Fools Crow by James Welch

1986: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

1985: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

1984: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1983: Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
1982: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
1981: The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
1980: The Second Coming by Walker Percy


History

2008: Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
2007: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
2006: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2005: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
2004: Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
2003: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek
2002: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
2001: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
2000: The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
1999: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
1998: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
1997: A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes
1996: Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
1995: Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America by Jackson Lears
1994: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
1993: New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton
1992: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism by Alexander Stille
1991: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann
1990: The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher
1989: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler
1988: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
1987: [No award in 1987]
1986: The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking
1985: Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
1984: The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
1983: The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel
1982: The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence
1981: Land of Savagery/Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington
1980: Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel


Mystery/thriller

2008: Envy the Night by Michael Koryta
2007: The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum, translated by Charlotte Barslund
2006: Echo Park by Michael Connelly
2005: Legends by Robert Little
2004: Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn
2003: Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos
2002: Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos
2001: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
2000: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
1999: [Award added in 2000]


Science and technology

2008: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
2007: I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
2006: In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel
2005: Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston
2004: The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth
2003: Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J. Hilts
2002: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
2001: The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn
2000: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D.
1999: Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
1998: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
1997: How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
1996: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
1995: Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
1994: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
1993: Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger
1992: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
1991: The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev
1990: Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith
1989: Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal
1988: [Award added in 1989]


Poetry

* 2008: Watching the Spring Festival: Poems by Frank Bidart
* 2007: Old Heart: Poems by Stanley Plumly (W. W. Norton)
* 2006: Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* 2005: Refusing Heaven: Poems by Jack Gilbert (Alfred A. Knopf)
* 2004: Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 by Richard Howard
* 2003: Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht (Alfred A. Knopf)
* 2002: The Watercourse: Poems by Cynthia Zarin (Alfred A. Knopf)
* 2001: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
* 2000: The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* 1999: Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* 1998: Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley (Penguin Books)
* 1997: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* 1996: Mixed Company by Alan Shapiro (The University of Chicago Press)
* 1995: The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* 1994: The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché (HarperCollins)
* 1993: My Alexandria by Mark Doty (University of Illinois Press)
* 1992: An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
* 1991: What Work Is by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
* 1990: The Color of Mesabi Bones by John Caddy (Milkweed)
* 1989: The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hall (Ticknor & Fields/
* 1988: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
* 1987: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A.
* 1986: Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* 1985: Cross Ties by X.J. Kennedy (University of Georgia Press)
* 1984: The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (University of California Press)
* 1983: The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (Atheneum)
* 1982: Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)
* 1981: Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange (St. Martin's Press)
* 1980: Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly (Black Sparrow)


Young adult fiction

* 2008: Nation by Terry Pratchett

* 2007: A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve

* 2006: Tyrell by Coe Booth
* 2005: You and You and You by Per Nilsson, translated from the Swedish by Tara Chace
* 2004: Doing It by Melvin Burgess
* 2003: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
* 2002: Feed by M.T. Anderson
* 2001: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
* 2000: Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
* 1999: Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier

* 1998: Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

* 1997: [Award added in 1998]


The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

* 2008: Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
* 2007: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
* 2006: White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
* 2005: Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
* 2004: Harbor by Lorraine Adams
* 2003: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
* 2002: Prague by Arthur Phillips
* 2001: The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
* 2000: The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
* 1999: Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
* 1998: Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk
* 1997: Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell
* 1996: The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr
* 1995: American Studies by Mark Merlis
* 1994: The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka
* 1993: Love by Paul Kafka
* 1992: High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney
* 1991: Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie
* 1990: (Award added in 1991)

The Robert Kirsch Award
* 2008 Robert Alter
* 2007 Maxine Hong Kingston
* 2006 William Kittredge
* 2005 Joan Didion
* 2004 Tony Hillerman
* 2003 Ishmael Reed
* 2002 Larry McMurtry
* 2001 Tillie Olsen
* 2000 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
* 1999 Ursula K. Le Guin
* 1998 John Sanford
* 1997 Ray Bradbury
* 1996 Gary Snyder
* 1995 Stephen J. Pyne
* 1994 Brian Moore
* 1993 Carolyn See
* 1992 Diane Johnson
* 1991 Ken Kesey
* 1990 Czeslaw Milosz
* 1989 Karl Shapiro
* 1988 Thom Gunn
* 1987 Paul Horgan
* 1986 Kay Boyle
* 1985 Janet Lewis
* 1984 Christopher Isherwood
* 1983 M.F.K. Fisher
* 1982 Ross Macdonald
* 1981 Wright Morris
* 1980 Wallace Stegner

Guardian First Book Award (1999-2010)

From Guardian.co.uk accessed 9/4/10

2010 longlist:
Fiction
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed

Non-fiction
Bomber County: The Lost Airmen of World War Two by Daniel Swift (Hamish Hamilton)
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz (Portobello)
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination... by Alexandra Harris --Winner!
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer

Poetry
The Floating Man by Katharine Towers

The 2009 longlist:
The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis
Direct Red by Gabriel Weston
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
A Swamp Full of Dollars by Michael Peel
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah -- Winner!
The Missing by Siân Hughes

Previous Winners:
Guardian First Book Award winners and shortlisted books

* 1999 Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

* 2000 Zadie Smith, White Teeth

* 2001 Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, graphic novel
o Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives biography
o David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker, non-fiction
o Glen David Gold, Carter Beats The Devil, fiction
o Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room, fiction

* 2002 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
o Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
o Hari Kunzru, The Impressionist
o Oliver Morton, Mapping Mars
o Sandra Newman, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done

* 2003 Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind
o Monica Ali, Brick Lane
o DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
o Paul Broks, Into the Silent Land
o Anna Funder, Stasiland

* 2004 Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body
o Matthew Hollis, Ground Water (Bloodaxe)
o David Bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories (Cape)
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 
Rory Stewart The Places in Between

* 2005 Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards
o Reza Aslan, No god but God
o Richard Benson, The Farm
o Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
o Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing

* 2006 Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
o Lorraine Adams, Harbor
o Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare
o Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
o Carrie Tiffany, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

* 2007 Dinaw Mengestu , Children of the Revolution
o Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age
o Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City
o Rosemary Hill, God's Architect
Catherine O'Flynn, What Was Lost

* 2008 Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century
Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Owen Matthews, Stalin's Children
Ross Raisin, God's Own Country
Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

Hurston/Wright Legacies for the Year (2005,2010)

The winners of the 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, award annually to authors of African descent for the year's best works in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, are:

Fiction: I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett
Poetry (two winners):
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009 by Haki R. Madhubuti
Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita Dove
Nonfiction: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley

The 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, honoring books by writers of African descent, have gone to:
Fiction: Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale by Maryse Conde
Nonfiction: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Veaux
Debut Fiction: Graceland by Chris Abani
Contemporary Fiction: A Woman's Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson

NBF's '5 Under 35' (2006-2010)

2010 info from National Book Foundation accessed 10/6/10

The 2010 5 Under 35 Honorees are:

Sarah Braunstein, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton & Co., 2011)
Selected by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, National Book Award Fiction Finalist for
Madeleine Is Sleeping, 2004
Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio, 2010)
Selected by Scott Spencer, Fiction Finalist for A Ship Made of Paper, 2003; Fiction Finalist for Endless Love, 1980 and 1981
Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Random House, 2011)
Selected by Colum McCann, Fiction Winner for Let the Great World Spin, 2009
Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010)
Selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, Fiction Finalist for Lark and Termite, 2009
Paul Yoon, Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009)
Selected by Kate Walbert, Fiction Finalist for Our Kind, 2004

The National Book Foundation

The 2009 5 Under 35 Honorees Are:
Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin (Viking, 2008)
Selected by Rachel Kushner, 2008 Fiction Finalist for Telex from Cuba

C. E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
Selected by Christine Schutt, 2004 Fiction Finalist for Florida

Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
(HarperCollins, 2009)
Selected by Salvatore Scibona, 2008 Fiction Finalist for The End

Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
(Vintage, 2006)
Selected by Dan Chaon, 2001 Fiction Finalist for Among the Missing

Josh Weil, The New Valley (Grove Press, 2009)
Selected by Lily Tuck, 2004 Fiction Winner for The News from Paraguay

Now in its fourth year, "5 Under 35” has become the highly-anticipated kick-off event for National Book Awards week. In a nod to Brooklyn’s status as the literary epicenter of New York City, the Foundation has moved the event to the Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO. That evening, each author will be introduced by the writer who selected them. This year’s emcee is musician, novelist, and publisher Richard Hell, founder of the seminal punk band Richard Hell & the Voidoids. The evening’s DJ will be novelist, essayist, and MacArthur fellow Jonathan Lethem.
Food provided by Soler-Bermudez of the Red Hook Food Vendors, a 2008 Vendy Award Finalist, and regular at the Red Hook Ball Fields every summer.

Wines generously donated by Joseph and Diane Steinberg; and beer generously donated by Union Beer.

More about the featured authors:

Ceridwen Dovey grew up in South Africa and Australia. She is an anthropologist and author of the novel Blood Kin, which won South Africa's most prestigious literary award, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Her novel was also short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Australia-Asia Literary Award, and long-listed for the Prix Femina Etranger.

C. E. Morgan was born in Cincinnati and now lives in Berea, Kentucky. She studied English and voice at Berea College and received a Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.) from Harvard Divinity School. Her short story "Over by Christmas" was published on the op-ed page of The New York Times this past Christmas. All the Living is her first novel. She's currently working on a novel about horse racing and race relations.

Lydia Peelle is the author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing. In addition to having two of her stories featured in the Best New American Voices series, she has also won two Pushcart Prizes and an O. Henry Prize. Peelle was born in Boston and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Karen Russell’s collection of stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, was named a Best Book of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2007, Russell was included in Granta’s series: the Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Conjunctions, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories (2007 and 2008). Russell, a native of Miami, now lives in New York City and is working on a novel, Swamplandia!, about a family of alligator wrestlers in the Florida swamp.

Josh Weil is the author of the novella collection The New Valley (Grove Press, 2009), a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. His fiction has been published in Granta, New England Review, American Short Fiction, and Narrative. He has written nonfiction for The New York Times, Granta Online, and Poets & Writers. Since earning his MFA from Columbia University, he has received a Fulbright grant, a Writer’s Center Emerging Writer Fellowship, and the Dana Award in Portfolio. He has been a fellow at both the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. As the 2009 Tickner Fellow, he is the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore, where he is at work on a novel.

National Book Award Authors

Dan Chaon's most recent novel, Await Your Reply, is out this fall from Ballantine Books. Chaon is also the author of Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. His fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction and was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.

Rachel Kushner’s first novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, received the gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her fiction and essays have been published in the New York Times, The Believer, Fence, Bomb, Grand Street, Cabinet, and elsewhere. She contributes regularly to Artforum and is a co-editor of the art, literature, and philosophy journal, Soft Targets.

Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award, a winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and winner of the Norman Mailer Cape Cod Award for Exceptional Writing. Riverhead will publish a paperback edition of The End in fall 2009, and it will be published in German and French in 2010. Scibona administers the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Christine Schutt is the author of two short story collections and Florida, a novel and 2004 National Book Award finalist. Her second novel, All Souls, was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Among other honors, Schutt has twice won the O. Henry Short Story Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and an NYFA fellowship. Schutt is a senior editor of the literary annual NOON. She lives and teaches in New York.

Lily Tuck is the author of The News from Paraguay, winner of the 2004 National Book Award. Her most recent work is a biography, Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.
Photo by Marion Ettlinger.
Host: Richard Hell is the author of the novels Go Now and Godlike. His book of collaborations with the artist Christopher Wool, Psychopts, was published in 2008, and his CD, Destiny Street Repaired, by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, was released in 2009. He is at work on an autobiography.

DJ: Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. His most recent novel is Chronic City.

Press inquiries contact Sherrie Young syoung@nationalbook.org

“5 Under 35” Fiction Selections for 2008
The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck - (selected by Joshua Ferris)
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen - (selected by Jonathan Franzen)
One More Year: Stories by Sana Krasikov - (selected by Francine Prose)
The Boat by Nam Le - (selected by Mary Gaitskill)
Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel - (selected by Jim Shepard)

“5 Under 35” Fiction Selections for 2007
Garner by Kirstin Allio - (selected by Dana Spiotta)
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu - (selected by Jess Walter)
Get Down: Stories by Asali Solomon - (selected by Jennifer Egan)
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich - (selected by Ken Kalfus)
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu - (selected by Richard Powers)

“5 Under 35” Fiction Selections for 2006
O My Darling by Amity Gaige - (selected by Christopher Sorrentino)
The Seas by Samatha Hunt - (selected by Rene Steinke)
Corpus Christi: Stories by Bret Anthony Johnston - (selected by Adam Haslett)
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap - (selected by Joan Silber)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer - (selected by Edward P. Jones)

Dagger Award (2009)

2010:
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin won the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger award for a crime novel that has been translated into English, the Guardian reported. Judges called the novel "impossible to reduce... to ghost story, a police procedural or a gothic tale." Theorin bested a shortlist that included Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Tonino Benacquista's Badfellas, Andrea Camilleri's August Heat, Arnaldur Indridason's Hypothermia and Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours.


2009:
Fred Vargas holds off Scandinavians at Dagger awards

French author bucks hegemony of northern European writers to win Crime Writers' Association prize with The Chalk Circle Man

• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 July 2009 15.52 BST

Scandinavian crime fiction might be all the rage in the book charts but French writer Fred Vargas has seen off competition from a cluster of Nordic authors to take the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger award.
Vargas, who has won the prize in three out of the last four years, took the £1,000 award for the first in her series of Adamsberg novels, The Chalk Circle Man. It took the prize ahead of three Swedish crime novels – including Steig Larsson's bestselling The Girl Who Played With Fire – one Norwegian, and one Icelandic novel. A bestselling author in France as well as a medieval archaeologist, Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. Her translator, Sîan Reynolds, won £500.
Published in France as L'Homme aux cercles bleu, it follows the story of unorthodox policeman Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg as strange blue chalk circles start to appear on the pavements of Paris, containing increasingly strange objects, from a pigeon's foot to a doll's head. The news is covered with wry amusement by the press, but Adamsberg is uneasy, and soon the body of a woman who has been brutally murdered is found in one of the circles. Judges said the book was "a remarkable demonstration of Vargas's ability to open with an odd event and follow it into an unhappy past".
The CWA caused controversy in 2005 when it took the decision to bar foreign language authors from competing for its top award, after the £3,000 Golden Dagger was won by translated novels in three out of eight years. It restricted the prize to books originally written in English, establishing the International Dagger to reward foreign works.
Yesterday evening also saw the CWA announce the winner of the £1,500 Dagger in the Library prize, which goes to a body of work rather than a single title and was this year won by Colin Cotterill, putting him in the company of previous winners Stuart McBride, Craig Russell and Alexander McCall Smith. The £500 Debut Dagger for new writing went to Canadian writer Catherine O'Keefe for The Pathologist – "an uncomfortable, sophisticated read that also manages to be suspenseful", according to the judges – while Sean Chercover's One Serving of Bad Luck took the £1,500 short story prize with a tale judges said provided "a new take on the private eye".

Locus Award winners (2009-10)

2010 Locus Awards

Finalists from Locus Online accessed 4/22/10
The top five finalists in each category of the 2010 Locus Awards have been announced. Winners will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, 2010. Tickets are still available.

Science Fiction Novel

* The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
* Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
* Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor) -- Winner!
* Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
* Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Fantasy Novel

* The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) -- Winner!
* Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
* Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
* Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
* Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)

First Novel

* The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) -- Winner!
* The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
* Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
* Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
* Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)

Young-Adult Novel

* The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)
* Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
* Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
* Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
* Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK) -- Winner!

Novella

* The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean) -- Winner!
* "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
* "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
* Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
* "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)

Novelette

* "By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother) -- Winner!
* "It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
* "First Flight", Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
* "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
* "The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)

Short Story

* "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
* "An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth) -- Winner!
* "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
* "Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
* "Useless Things", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)

Magazine

* Analog
* Asimov's
* Clarkesworld
* F&SF -- Winner!
* Tor.com

Publisher

* Baen
* Night Shade
* Pyr
* Subterranean
* Tor -- Winner!

Anthology

* Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
* The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds.  -- Winner!
* The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
* Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.
* Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

Collection

* We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
* Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
* Wireless, Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
* The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS) -- Winner!
* The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)

Editor

* Ellen Datlow -- Winner!
* Gardner Dozois
* David G. Hartwell
* Jonathan Strahan
* Gordon Van Gelder

Artist

* Stephan Martinière
* John Picacio
* Shaun Tan
* Charles Vess
* Michael Whelan -- Winner!

Non-fiction/Art Book

* Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS)
* Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
* Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct) -- Winner!
* This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
* Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess, Charles Vess (Dark Horse)


The 2009 Locus Award winners for best science fiction books and related books were named at a ceremony during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle. Boing Boing observed that the list is a "good place to start your reading if you want to read some of the best stuff out there."

Locus Award winners:

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" 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: P. Craig Russell--Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
Editor: Ellen Datlow
Artist: Michael Whelan
Magazine: F&SF
Publisher: Tor

Trillium Book Awards (2009-10)

2010 Award
Ian Brown won the Ontario government's $20,000 (US$19,307) Trillium Book Award for his memoir, The Boy in the Moon. The National Post reported this is "the third major prize the book has scooped up since it was published by Random House Canada last year. Already this year it has won the $40,000 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction." In the French-language category, Ryad Assani-Razaki was honored for his short story collection Deux Cercles

Karen Solie won the $10,000 Trillium poetry prize for her third collection, Pigeon, and Michèle Matteau took the French-language poetry award for Passerelles.

2009 Award
Debut authors Jeramy Dodds and Pasha Malla won the Ontario government's two $20,000 (US$17,660) Trillium Book Awards for literary excellence in English. The National Post reported that Dodds received the poetry prize for Crabwise to the Hounds, "a debut collection that also made the short list for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize."

Malla was honored for his short story collection, The Withdrawal Method, which the jury praised as "an assured and mature first collection from one of our best young writers, one who pairs striking emotional depth with remarkable technical skill."

Trillium Book Awards for literary excellence in English Finalists (2009)

The other finalists for the $20,000 prize were Revolver by poet Kevin Connolly; Coventry: A Novel by Helen Humphreys; ANGEL RIOTS by Ibi Kaslik; In The Land Of Long Fingernails, a memoir by Charles Wilkins; and The Origin of Species, by former Trillium winner Nino Ricci.

In the French-language category, Marguerite Andersen won $20,000 for Le figuier sur le toit, and Paul Prud'Homme's Les Rebuts: Hockey 2 took the $10,000 Trillium Book Award for children's literature.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (2008-2010)

Amazon is proud to announce Amy Ackley and Patricia McArdle as the winners of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Young Adult Fiction Award: Amy Ackley.  Sign Language
General Fiction Award:  Patricia McArdle. Farishta

2009 Finalists:

The 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalists are:
Ian Gibson, Victoria BC, for Stuff of Legends
James King, Wilton CT, for Bill Warrington's Last Chance
Brandi Lynn Ryder, Napa CA, for In Malice, Quite Close

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) is a contest sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group, Hewlett Packard, CreateSpace and BookSurge to publish and promote a manuscript by an unknown or unpublished author.

2008 competition
Amazon introduced the Breakthrough Novel Award in 2007. The first competition began in late 2007 and ended in early 2008. A maximum of 5,000 manuscripts were accepted during the contest period, which ran between October 1, 2007 and November 5, 2007. In mid-January 2008, up to 836 authors were selected as semi-finalists and received a capsule review of their manuscript from Publishers Weekly. On February 19, 2008, 100 semi-finalists had their manuscripts read by Penguin editors.

On March 3, 2008, the top ten finalists were announced. All received a prize package from HP and a self-publishing package from BookSurge.
1. The Hellraiser of Hollywood Hills (?) by Jennifer Colt The Butcher of Beverly Hills
2. Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson
3. Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
4. The Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer
5. The Butterflies of Grand Canyon by Margaret Erhart Crossing Bully Creek
6. Ring of Lies by Karen Laugel (nothing found by her)
7. Fresh Kills by Bill Loehfelm -- winner!
8. Motherless Children by Randall Luce (nothing found)
9. The Prospect of My Arrival by Dwight Okita (nothing found)
10. Wrecking Civilization Before Lunch by John Ring (nothing found)

Amazon customers voted to pick the grand-prize winner. The top three received a trip to New York City. On April 7, 2008, Fresh Kills by Bill Loehfelm was announced as the first winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Loehfelm won a larger prize package from HP and a $25,000 advance on a publishing contract with Penguin.

Amazon.ca First Novel Award (2009-2010)

2010 Award info from Quill and Quire accessed 5/3/10

Newfoundlander Jessica Grant, author of Come, Thou Tortoise (Knopf Canada), has won the 2010 Amazon.ca First Novel Award which was co-sponsored by Quill & Quire. Grant was up against Diana Fitzgerald Bryden for No Place Strange (Key Porter Books), Annabel Lyon for The Golden Mean (Random House Canada), Damian Tarnopolsky for Goya’s Dog (Hamish Hamilton Canada), Dragan Todorovic for Diary of Interrupted Days (Random House Canada), and Ian Weir for Daniel O’Thunder (Douglas & McIntyre). The prize is worth $7,500 and honours a debut Canadian novel published in 2009.

The award was presented last night at a ceremony in Toronto. Quill & Quire editor Stuart Woods, who chose the six finalists, describes the winning book as “a heartfelt tale full to the brim with warm sentiment and the gentle absurdities of contemporary life.” The jury was comprised of poet and novelist Priscila Uppal, author and past winner Joseph Boyden, and Hal Wake, artistic director of the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival.
Grant is a member of the Newfoundland writing group The Burning Rock, along with Lisa Moore and Michael Winter. Her first book of fiction, Making Light of Tragedy, was published by The Porcupine’s Quill in 2005.

from The Afterword by Mark Medley
The nominees for the have been announced.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award finalist (2009)

The six finalists are:
• Mike Blouin for Chase and Haven
• Claudia Dey for Stunt
• Mary Swan for The Boys in the Trees
• Patrick Lane for Red Dog, Red Dog
• Joan Thomas for Reading by Lightning – Winner!
• Padma Viswanathan for The Toss of a Lemon

The annual award -- which was formerly called the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award -- goes to (obviously) a first-time novelist.

The prize, worth $7,500, was founded in 1976. Previous winners include Michael Ondaatje, W.P. Kinsella, Nino Ricci, Rohinton Mistry, Anne Michaels, Colin McAdam, Michael Redhill, and Joseph Boyden.

The winner will be announced in September.

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards (2010)

Information accessed from Scottish Arts Council 3/20/10
Book Awards 2010 Shortlist

Since their establishment in 1972, the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards have recognised and rewarded literary excellence in literary fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction by Scottish authors resident in, or out with, Scotland. In 2009 the book awards were re-branded the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, to represent a long term sponsorship commitment. The Book of the Year award is worth £30,000, and is the biggest literary prize of its kind in Scotland.

Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
First Book

Fiction
John Aberdein, Strip the Willow (Polygon)
Alan Bissett, Death of a Ladies’ Man (Hachette Scotland)
A L Kennedy, What Becomes (Jonathan Cape)
Liam McIlvanney, All the Colours of the Town (Faber)

Non-Fiction
Robert Crawford, The Bard: Robert Burns, a biography (Pimlico)
William Dalrymple, Nine Lives: In Search of the Modern India (Bloomsbury)
Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (Oxford university Press)

Poetry
John Burnside, The Hunt in the Forest (Jonathan Cape)
Thomas A Clark, The Hundred Thousand Places (Carcanet Press)Don Paterson, Rain (Faber)
Tom Leonard. Outside the Narrative (Word Power/Etruscan Books)
Richard Price, Rays (Carcanet Press)

First Book
Nick Currie (Momus), Solution 11-167: The Book of Scotlands (Sternberg Press)
Sarah Gabriel, Eating Pomegranates (Jonathan Cape)
JO Morgan, Natural Mechanical (CB Editions)
Andrew Philip, The Ambulance Box (Salt Publishing)

Telegraph's top new novelists for 2010

"How do you spot a rising star, that new voice in literature that will really make an impression?" asked the Telegraph, then answered the question by choosing its "top new novelists for 2010." The list includes:

The Privileges by Jonathan Dee

Chef by Jaspreet Singh

Rupture by Simon Lelic

This Bleeding City by Alex Preston

Day for Night by Frederick Reiken

Secret Son by Laila Lalami

Serious Men by Manu Joseph - can't find author or title on Goodreads 1/22/10

Cross Country Murder Song by Philip Wilding

Ruby’s Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni

Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer - can't find author or title on Goodreads 1/22/10
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna - can't find author or title on Goodreads 1/22/10

Borders Original Voices (2005,2009)

Winners of Borders Group's 2009 Original Voices Awards, recognizing "original and compelling works by new authors," are:

Fiction
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim (Holt). The selection committee called this "a thought-provoking novel that will stick with you after reading it because of its atmosphere, life lessons and historical perspective."

Nonfiction
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew Crawford (Penguin Press). The committee commented: "Crawford's blending of philosophical analysis and personal narrative makes for a wonderfully thought-provoking--and at times very humorous--read. It's very timely as well, given the evolution of our economy."

Children/Young Adult
After by Amy Efaw (Viking). The committee said, "By all of today's standards, Davenport should be a despicable character, though through airtight storytelling, Efaw pulls readers into the thought process of the character and allows them to actually sympathize with her."

Each winner receives $5,000, and their titles will be featured in the company's stores.

Borders's 2005 Original Voices awards, "for outstanding achievement in crafting creative, original books and music," have been announced:

• Fiction: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Norton). The author was commended for "a masterful job of interweaving many story lines, bringing them all together in a moving and meaningful way, and the ending is pitch-perfect, down to the last line."
• Nonfiction: Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin (Penguin Press). Larkin's account of traveling around Burma was cited for "an interesting perspective on how intellect survives the worst of humanity while still retaining a high standard of dignity. It is an eloquent and poetic blend of travel narrative, literary criticism and political commentary."
• Children's picture book: Russell the Sheep written and illustrated by Rob Scotton (HarperCollins). The story about a sheep that can't sleep is "a playful, unique take on traditional bedtime and counting books and Russell is just plain darling."
• Young adult: Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (FSG). This book about life after death offers "a fascinating concept of the afterlife and is ultimately a novel full of hope."
• Music: Careless Love by Madeleine Peyroux (Rounder Records Group). Peyroux's voice "first catches your ear, but it is her beautiful, laid back, melodic jazz treatments of everything from Leonard Cohen to Bob Dylan to Hank Williams that keeps you listening."

The six nominees in each category were chosen by Borders store and corporate employees. Winners were selected by a panel of judges at the main office. Each winner receives $5,000 and will be honored at BEA.

Original Voices Award Fiction Finalists (2005)

• The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
• Kung Fu High School by Ryan Gattis
• The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories by Davy Rothbart
• The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
• The Mercy of Thin Air: A Novel by Ronlyn Domingue
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel by Marina Lewycka

Nonfiction

• Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
• Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
• Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop
• The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer

Children's Picture Books

• Flight of the Dodo by Peter Brown
• The Flower Man by Mark Ludy
• A Froggy Fable by John Lechner
• Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel, illustrated by David Catrow
• Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton
• There's a Frog Trapped in the Bathroom by Susan Snyder, edited by Susan McCabe, illustrated by Anna Johanson

Original Voices Award Intermediate/Young Adult Books Finalist (2005)

• Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
• Funny Little Monkey by Andrew Auseon
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives-Book #1 by Michael Buckley
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber

Booklist Best First Novels (2009)

Top 10 First Novels: 2009. from booklistonline.com accessed 12/16/09

Hooper, Brad (author).

FEATURE. First published October 15, 2009 (Booklist).


Readers pick up a first novel with both excitement and trepidation. An untried author is always a reader’s gamble. But pick up the following first novels, all reviewed in Booklist over the past year, with no trepidation, only excitement.

Dream House. By Valerie Laken. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780060840921).
Laken is masterful at character construction as she explores issues of race and class.

A Fortunate Age. By Joanna Smith Rakoff. Scribner, $26 (9781416590774).
This novel provides a pitch-perfect portrait of the generation that came of age in the 1990s.

Grace Hammer. By Sara Stockbridge. Norton, $23.95 (9780393067187).
Stockbridge deftly captures the mood of Dickensian London in this gripping debut.

The Invisible Mountain. By Carolina De Robertis. Knopf, $24.95 (9780307271631).
Words, so beautifully employed by this author, seem inadequate to convey the essence of this twentieth-century Uruguayan woman-centered family saga.

Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange. By Amanda Smyth. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $23 (9780307460646). In lithe, lyrical prose, the author evokes the lush language of the West Indies and the modest lives lived at the mercy of fate.

Mathilda Savitch. By Victor Lodato. Farrar, $24 (9780374204006).
Lodato indelibly captures the fragile vulnerability and fearless bravado of adolescence.

Miles from Nowhere. By Anmi Mun. Riverhead, $21.95 (9781594488542).
There is nothing simplistic or sensationalized here as Mun, a writer of gravitas, portrays the dispossessed and the cast out.

The Moon Opera. By Bi Feiyu. Houghton, $18 (9780151012947).
At once a sad and lovely story, this slender novel on a rather narrow topic—the Peking Opera—nevertheless resonates with a clear, crystalline tone.

Precious. By Sandra Novack. Random, $25 (9781400066803).
Trouble simmers beneath the surface of a bucolic Pennsylvania town in Novack’s dramatic, elegantly rendered debut.

Under This Unbroken Sky. By Shandi Mitchell. HarperCollins, $25.99 (9780061774027).
The author’s screenwriting skills serve her well in this remarkable portrait of a Ukrainian farming family in Alberta during the late 1930s.

The Shamus Awards (1982-2008)

from http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv72.html:
Bestowed by the Private Eye Writers of America

The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) was founded in 1981 by Robert J. Randisi to recognize the private eye genre and its writers, and is probably best known for its annual Shamus Awards. Membership is open to fans, writers, and publishing professionals. There are three levels of membership: Active, Associate, and International.

In general, the PWA defines a "private eye" as any mystery protagonist who is a professional investigator, but not a police officer or government agent. The full definition is, and I quote, "a person paid for investigative work but not employed by a unit of government. Thus books and stories about private investigators (licensed and unlicensed), lawyers and reporters who do their own legwork, and other hired agents are eligible; works centering on law enforcement officers or amateur sleuths are not."

Winners listed first in lists that follow. Short Story winners not included.

1982 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)

* Ross Macdonald
Accepted in his absence by his friend and colleague Dennis Lynds

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER

* Hoodwink by Bill Pronzini (Nameless Detective)
* A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* 30 for a Harry by Richard Hoyt (John Denson)
* Hard Trade by Arthur Lyons (Jake Asch)
* Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker (Spenser)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK

* California Thriller by Max Byrd (Mike Haller)
* Carpenter, Detective by Hamilton T. Caine (Ace Carpenter)
* Brown's Requiem by James Ellroy (Fritz Brown)
* The Old Dick by L.A. Morse (Jake Spanner)
* Murder in the Wind by George Ogan (Johnny Bordelon)

1983 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Mickey Spillane

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone)
* Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen (David Brandstetter)
* A Piece of the Silence by Jack Livingston (Joe Binney)
* Ceremony by Robert B. Parker (Spenser)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* The Cana Diversion by William Campbell Gault (Brock Callahan)
* Nevsky's Return by Dimitri Gat (Yuri Nevsky)
* Pieces of Death by Jack Lynch (Peter Bragg)
* Smoked Out by Warren Murphy (Julian "Digger" Burroughs)

1984 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* William Campbell Gault

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* True Detective by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* Dancing Bear by James Crumley (Milo Milodragovitch)
* The Glass Highway by Loren D. Estleman (Amos Walker)
* The Dark Fantastic by Stanley Ellin
* The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker (Spenser)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Dead in Centerfield by Paul Engelman (Mark Renzler)
* Finders Weepers by Max Byrd (Mike Haller)
* Death And The Single Girl by Elliot Lewis (Fred Bennett)
* Trace by Warren Murphy (Devlin "Trace" Tracy)
* The Steinway Collection by Robert J. Randisi (Miles Jacoby)

1985 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Howard Browne

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* Sugartown by Loren D. Estleman (Amos Walker; Amos Walker)
* True Crime by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* Die Again, Macready by Jack Livingston
* Nightlines by John Lutz (Alo Nudger)
* Full Contact by Robert J. Randisi (Miles Jacoby)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Ceiling of Hell by Warren Murphy
* Squeeze Play by Paul Benjamin
* San Quentin by Jack Lynch
* Trace and 47 Miles of Rope by Warren Murphy
* The Man Who Risked His Partner by Reed Stephens

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* A Creative Kind of Killer by Jack Early
* Blunt Darts by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)
* The Nebraska Quotient by William J. Reynolds

1986 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Richard S. Prather

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone)
* The Naked Liar by Harold Adams
* Hardball by Doug Hornig
* A Catskill Eagle by Robert B. Parker (Spenser)
* Bones by Bill Pronzini (Nameless)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Poverty Bay by Earl Emerson (Thomas Black)
* The Rainy City by Earl Emerson (Thomas Black)
* The Kill by Douglas Heyes
* Trace: Pigs Get Fat by Warren Murphy (Devlin "Trace" Tracy)
* Blue Heron by Philip Ross

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Hardcover by Wayne Warga
* New, Improved Murder by Ed Gorman (Jack Dwyer)
* Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
* Embrace the Wolf by Benjamin Schutz (Leo Haggerty)
* Flood by Andrew Vachss (Burke)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL CONTEST
* An Infinite Number of Monkeys by Les Roberts (Saxon)

1987 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Bill Pronzini, creator of the Nameless Detective series

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* The Staked Goat by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)
* When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* In La-La Land We Trust by Robert Campbell
* The Million Dollar Wound by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* The Back Door Man by Rob Kantner (Ben Perkins)
* Melting Point by Kenn Davis
* Nervous Laughter by Earl Emerson (Thomas Black)
* Dark Fields by T.J. MacGregor
* Trace: Too Old a Cat by Warren Murphy (Devlin "Trace" Tracy)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Jersey Tomatoes by J.W. Rider
* No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart
* Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Fear of the Dark by Gar Anthony Haywood (Aaron Gunner)

1988 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Awards)
* Dennis Lynds
* Wade Miller (Robert Wade and Bob Miller)

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* A Tax in Blood by Benjamin Schutz (Leo Haggerty)
* Lady Yesterday by Loren D. Estleman (Amos Walker)
* Ride the Lightning by John Lutz (Alo Nudger)
* A Trouble Of Fools by Linda Barnes
* The Autumn Dead by Ed Gorman (Jack Dwyer)
* Ride The Lightning by John Lutz

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Wild Night by L.J. Washburn
* The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole)
* Snake Eyes by Gaylord Dold (Mitch Roberts)
* Recount by David Everson (Robert Miles)
* Madelaine by Joseph Louis

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Death on the Rocks by Michael Allegretto
* The House Of Blue Lights by Robert Bowman
* Shawnee Alley Fire by John Douglas
* Detective by Parnell Hall (Stanley Hastings)
* An Infinite Number Of Monkeys by Les Roberts (Saxon)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Katwalk by Karen Kijewski (Kat Colorado)

1989 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* No Award Given

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* Kiss by John Lutz
* Neon Mirage by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* Deviant Behavior by Earl Emerson (Thomas Black)
* Swan Dive by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)
* Blood Shot by Sara Paretsky

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Dirty Work by Rob Kantner (Ben Perkins)
* The Last Private Eye by John Birkett
* Bonepile by Gaylord Dold (Mitch Roberts)
* Rebound by David Everson (Robert Miles)
* The Crystal Blue Persuasion by W. R. Philbrick

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Fear of the Dark by Gar Anthony Haywood (Aaron Gunner)
* Lost Daughter by Michael Cormany
* Burning Season by Wayne D. Dundee (Joe Hannibal)
* Wall of Glass by Walter Satterthwait (Joshua Croft)
* Slow Dance in Autumn by Philip Lee Williams

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Kindred Crime by Janet Dawson (Jeri Howard)

1990 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* No Award Given

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* Extenuating Circumstances by Jonathan Valin (Harry Stoner)
* Out On The Cutting Edge by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* The Skintight Shroud by Wayne Dundee (Joe Hannibal)
* The Shape Of Dread by Marcia Muller (Sharon McCone)
* The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Hell's Only Half Full by Rob Kantner (Ben Perkins)
* Muscle And Blood by Gaylord Dold (Mitch Roberts)
* Behind The Fac by Richard Hilary
* Tough Enough by W. R. Philbrick
* A Collector Of Photographs by Deborah Valentine

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Katwalk by Karen Kijewski (Kat Colorado)
* Medicine Dog by Geoff Peterson
* Cold Night by Al Sarrantonio
* Rock Critic Murders by Jesse Sublett

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* The Loud Adios by Ken Kuhlken (Tom Hickey)

1991 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Roy Huggins

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone)
* Dead Irish by John Lescroart
* The Desert Look by Bernard Schopen
* Polo's Wild Card by Jerry Kennealy (Nick Polo)
* Poor Butterfly by Stuart Kaminsky (Toby Peters)
* A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Rafferty: Fatal Sisters by W. Glenn Duncan (Rafferty)
* Made in Detroit by Rob Kantner (Ben Perkins)
* Bimbo Heaven by Marvin Albert
* The Blue Room by Monroe Thompson
* The Queen's Mare by John Birkett

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosely (Easy Rawlins)
* Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle
* Kindred Crimes by Janet Dawson (Jeri Howard)
* The Stone Veil by Ronald Tierney

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe by Winona Sullivan (Sister Cecile)

1992 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Joseph Hansen

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* Stolen Away by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* Where Echoes Live by Marcia Muller (Sharon McCone)
* A Fistful of Empty by Benjamin Schutz (Leo Haggerty)
* Second Chance by Jonathan Valin (Harry Stoner)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Cool Blue Tomb by Paul Kemprecos
* Black Light by Daniel Hearn
* House of Cards by Kay Hooper
* The Thousand Yard Stare by Rob Kantner (Ben Perkins)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Suffer Little Children by Thomas Davis (Dave Strickland)
* The January Corpse by Neil Albert (Dave Garrett)
* Dead on the Island by Bill Crider
* Best Performance by a Patsy by Stan Cutler
* Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Storm Warning by A.C. Ayres (eventually published as Hour of the Manatee)

1993 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Marcia Muller

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER
* The Man Who was Taller Than God by Harold Adams (Carl Wilcox)
* Cassandra in Red by Michael Collins (Dan Fortune)
* Lullaby Town by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole)
* Shallow Graves by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)
* Special Delivery by Jerry Kennealy (Nick Polo)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* The Last Tango of Delores Delgado by Marele Day (Claudia Valentine)
* Lay It on the Line by Catherine Dain (Freddie O'Neal)
* Dirty Money by Mark Davis
* The Brutal Ballet by Wayne D. Dundee (Joe Hannibal)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley (Cecil Younger)
* Return Trip Ticket by David C. Hall
* Switching the Odds by Phyllis Knight
* The Long-Legged Fly by James Sallis (Lew Griffin)

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY
* "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door" by Benjamin Schutz (Deadly Allies; Leo Haggerty)
* "The Messenger" by Jacklyn Butler (October 1992, AHMM)
* "Safe House" by Loren D. Estleman (Deadly Allies; Amos Walker)
* "A Little Missionary Work" by Sue Grafton (Deadly Allies; Kinsey Millhone)
* "Rest Stop" by Jeremiah Healy (May 1992, AHMM; John Francis Cuddy)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* The Harry Chronicles by Allan Pedrazas (Harry Rice)

1994 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Stephen J. Cannell

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* Foursome by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)
* Wolf In The Shadows by Marcia Muller (Sharon McCone)
* Moth by James Sallis (Lew Griffin)
* The Lies That Bind by Judith Van Gieson (Neil Hamel)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Brothers And Sinners by Rodman Philbrick
* The Half-hearted Detective by Milton Bass
* A Minyon For The Dead by Richard Fliegel
* Shadow Games by Edward Gorman
* Torchtown Boogie by Steven Womack (Harry James Denton)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Satan's Lambs by Lynn Hightower (Lena Padget)
* Brotherly Love by Randye Lordon (Sydney Sloane)
* By Evil Means by Sandra West Prowell (Phoebe Siegal)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* The Heaven Stone by David Daniel (Alex Rasmussen)

1995 SHAMUS AWARDS
Presented June 17, 1995, at EYECON, by the Private Eye Writers of America.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* John Lutz and Robert B. Parker

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* K Is For Killer by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone)
* A Long Line Of Dead Men by Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder)
* Carnal Hours by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* The Killing Of Monday Brown by Sandra West Prowell (Phoebe Siegal)
* The Lake Effect by Les Roberts

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane (Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro)
* The Heaven Stone by David Daniel (Alex Rasmussen)
* One For The Money by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum)
* The Fall-down Artist by Thomas Lipinski (Carroll Dorsey)
* When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Tamara Hayle)

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK
* Served Cold by Ed Goldberg (Lenny Schneider)
* Double Plot by Leo Axler
* Lament For A Dead Cowboy by Catherine Dain (Freddie O'Neal)
* Dead Ahead by Bridget Mckenna (Caley Burke)
* Deadly Devotion by Patricia Wallace

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Diamond Head by Charles Knief (John Caine)

1996 SHAMUS AWARDS
Winners were announced in a special ceremony at Bouchercon 27 World Mystery Convention (St. Paul, MN, Oct. 10-13, 1996).

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* No Award Given

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* Concourse by S.J. Rozan (Lydia Chin and Bill Smith)
* The Vanishing Smile by Earl Emerson (Thomas Black)
* Come To Grief by Dick Francis (Sid Halley)
* Movie by Parnell Hall (Stanley Hastings)
* The Neon Smile by Dick Lochte (Terry Manion)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Native Angels by William Jaspersohn (Peter Boone)
* Zero Tolerance by J.D. Knight
* Interview With Mattie by Shelley Singer (Barrett Lake)
* Charged With Guilt by Gloria White (Ronnie Ventana)
* Way Past Dead by Steven Womack (Harry James Denton)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* The Innocents by Richard Barre (Wil Hardesty)
* Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford (Leo Waterman)
* If Looks Could Kill by Ruthe Furie (Fran Kirk)
* Penance by David Housewright (Holland Taylor)
* The Harry Chronicles by Allan Pedrazas (Harry Rice)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* No Award Given

1997 SHAMUS AWARDS
Winners announced October30, 1997, at Bouchercon 28 World Mystery Convention held in Monterey, California.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Stephen Marlowe, the author of the Chet Drum series

BEST P.I. NOVEL:
* Damned in Paradise by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* Sunset Express by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole)
* Flesh Wounds, by Stephen Greenleaf (John Marshall Tanner)
* Invasion Of Privacy, by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)
* Sentinels, by Bill Pronzini (Nameless)
* When Wallflowers Die, by Sandra West Prowell (Phoebe Siegal)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Fade Away, by Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar)
* Chain Of Fools, by Steven Womack (Harry James Denton)
* Natural Death by Ruthe Fury (Fran Kirk)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* This Dog For Hire, by Carol Lea Benjamin (Rachel Alexander)
* Keeper by Greg Rucka (Atticus Kodiak)
* The Low End Of Nowhere by Michael Stone (Streeter)
* This Far, No Further by John Wessel (Harding)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton (Alex McKnight)

1998 SHAMUS AWARDS
The Private Eye Writers of America announced the 1998 Shamus Awards winners at the Shamus Awards ceremony during the Bouchercon in Philadelphia, October 1-4, 1998.

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* Come Back Dead by Terrance Faherty (Scott Elliott)
* Indigo Slam by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole)
* Deception Pass by Earl Emerson (Thomas Black)
* Sacred by Dennis Lehane (Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro)
* Down For The Count by Maxine O'Callaghan (Deliah West)
* No Colder Place by S.J. Rozan (Lydia Chin and Bill Smith)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Charm City by Laura Lippman (Tess Monaghan)
* Back Spin by Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar)
* A Whisper Of Rage by Tim Hemlin (Neil Marshall)
* Father Forgive Me by Randye Lordon (Sydney Sloane)
* Sunset And Santiago by Gloria White (Ronnie Ventana)

BEST P.I. FIRST NOVEL
* Big Red Tequilla by Rick Riordan (Tres Navarre)
* Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (Tess Monaghan)
* Legwork by Katy Munger (Casey Jones)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* The Losers' Club by Lise S. Baker (Cal Brantley)

1999 SHAMUS AWARDS
As presented at Eyecon'99 in July in St. Louis.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Maxine O'Callaghan, the author of the Delilah West series.

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* Boobytrap by Bill Pronzini (Nameless)
* Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane (Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro)
* No Badge, No Gun by Harold Adams (Carl Wilcox)
* Flying Blind by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* The Only Good Lawyer by Jeremiah Healy (John Francis Cuddy)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* A Cold Day In Paradise by Steve Hamilton (Alex McKnight)
* Like A Hole In The Head by Jen Banbury
* Dead Low Tide by Jamie Katz (Dan Kardon)
* Zen And The Art Of Murder by Elizabeth Cosin (Zen Moses)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Murder Manual by Steve Womack (Harry James Denton)
* Too Easy by Philip Depoy (Flap Tucker)
* Butcher's Hill by Laura Lippman (Tess Monaghan)
* The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan (Tres Navarre)
* Death In A City Of Mystics by Janice Steinberg

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Street Legal by Robert Truluck (Duncan Sloan)

FRIENDS OF PWA (a new award)
* Michael Seidman, Editor at Walker, former editor of The Armchair Detective
* Joe Pittman, Senior Editor at Signet

2000 SHAMUS AWARDS
The Private Eye Writers of America announced the winners of its 2000 Shamus Awards during the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, September 7-10 in Denver, Colorado.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Edward D. Hoch

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* California Fire And Life by Don Winslow (Jack Wade)
* L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole)
* Monster by Jonathan Kellerman (Alex Delaware)
* Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane (Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro)
* Stone Quarry by S.J. Rozan (Lydia Chin and Bill Smith)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman (Tess Monaghan)
* Deadbeat by Leo Atkins (Connor Gibbs)
* Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham (Sunny Childs)
* The Last Song Dogs by Sinclair Browning (Trade Ellis)
* Steel City Confessions by Thomas Lipinski (Carroll Dorsey)

BEST P.I. FIRST NOVEL
* Every Dead Thing by John Connolly (Charlie Parker)
* East Of A by Russell Atwood (Payton Sherwood)
* The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins (August Riordan)
* Maximum Insecurity by P.J. Grady (Matty Madrid)
* The Answer Man by Roy Johansen (Ken Parker)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL CONTEST
* Catching Water in a Net by J.L. Abramo (Jake Diamond)

2001 SHAMUS AWARDS
The Private Eye Writers of America were to be presented at that year's Shamus Awards at PWA's 20th Anniversary Banquet during Bouchercon, but decided to forego the event "due to the tragedies that occurred in NY and Washington." Instead they announced the winners in a press release.

BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL
* Havana Heat by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, (Lupe Solano)
* A Smile On The Face Of The Tiger by Loren Estleman (Amos Walker)
* The Deader The Better by G. M. Ford (Leo Waterman)
* Ellipsis by Stephen Greenleaf (John Marshall Tanner)
* Listen To The Silence by Marcia Muller (Sharon McCone)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Death In The Steel City by Thomas Lipinski (Carroll Dorsey)
* The Blazing Tree by Mary Jo Adamson (Michael Merrick)
* The Sporting Club by Sinclair Browning (Trade Ellis)
* The Hindenburg Murders by Max Allan Collins (Leslie Charteris, P.I.?)
* Bad To The Bone by Katy Munger (Casey Jones)
* Dirty Money by Steven Womack (Harry James Denton)

BEST P.I. FIRST NOVEL
* Street Level by Bob Truluck (Duncan Sloan)
* Brigham's Day by John Gates (Brigham Bybee)
* The Heir Hunter by Chris Larsgaard (Nick Merchant)
* Resurrection Angel by William Mize (Monty Crocetti and Denton Ward)
* Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper (Bartholomew Crane)

2002 SHAMUS AWARDS

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievement)
* Lawrence Block

BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL
* Reflecting The Sky by S.J. Rozan (Bill Smith and Lydia Chin)
* Angel In Black by Max Allan Collins (Nate Heller)
* Ashes Of Aries by Martha C. Lawrence (Dr. Elizabeth Chase)
* The Devil Went Down To Austin by Rick Riordan (Tres Navarre)
* Cold Water Burning by John Straley (Cecil Younger)

BEST P.I. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse (Dierdre McMannus)
* Ancient Enemy by Robert Westbrook (Howard Moon Deer )
* Keepers by Janet Lapierre (Patience and Verity Mackellar)

BEST P.I. FIRST NOVEL
* Chasing the Devil's Tail by David Fulmer (Valentin St. Cyr)
* Epitaph by James Siegel (William Riskin)
* Rat City by Curt Colbert (Jake Rossiter)
* A Witness Above by Andy Straka (Frank Pavlicek)
* Pilikia Is My Business by Mark Troy (Val Lyon)

FRIEND OF PWA
* Jan Grape

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA CONTEST FOR BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL
* The Sterling Inheritance by Michael Siverling (Jason Wilder)

2003 SHAMUS AWARDS
The Shamus Awards were presented in October at the PWA banquet to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, during Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievement)
* Sue Grafton

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* Blackwater Sound by James W. Hall (Thorn)
* North Of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton (Alex McKnight)
* The Last Place by Laura Lippman (Tess Monaghan)
* Hell To Pay by George Pelecanos (Derek Strange and Terry Quinn)
* Winter And Night by S.J. Rozan (Lydia Chin and Bill Smith)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* The Distance by Eddie Muller (Billy Nichols)
* Westerfield's Chain by Jack Clark (Nick Acropolis)
* The Bone Orchard by D. Daniel Judson (Declan "Mac" MacManus)
* Open And Shut by David Rosenfeld (Andy Carpenter)
* Private Heat by Robert Bailey (Art Hardin)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL P.I. NOVEL
* The Poisoned Rose by D. Daniel Judson (Declan "Mac" MacManus)
* Cash Out by Paul Boray (John "Tomb" Tomei)
* Juicy Watusi by Richard Helms (Pat Gallegher)
* The Lusitania Murders by Max Allan Collins (S.S. Van Dine, P.I. -- yeah, right)
* Paint It Black by P.J. Parish (Louis Kincaid)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA CONTEST FOR BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL
* Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta (Lincoln Perry)

2004 SHAMUS AWARDS
The 2004 Shamus Awards were announced at the Bouchercon in Toronto.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Donald Westlake

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* The Guards by Ken Bruen (Jack Taylor)
* Scavenger Hunt by Robert Ferrigno (Jimmy Gage)
* Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton (Alex McKnight)
* Fatal Flaw by William Lashner (Victor Carl)
* A Visible Darkness by Jonathon King (Max Freeman )

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Black Maps by Peter Spiegelman (John March)
* Spiked by Mark Arsenault (Eddie Bourque)
* Lovers Crossing by James C. Mitchell (Roscoe Brinker)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL P.I. NOVEL
* Cold Quarry by Andy Straka (Frank Pavlicek)
* Thicker Than Water by PJ Parrish (Louis Kincaid)
* Wet Debt by Richard Helms (Pat Gallegher)
* Dragonfly Bones by David Cole (Laura Winslow)

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA CONTEST FOR BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL
* First Kill by Michael Kronenwetter (Hank Berlin)

2005 SHAMUS AWARDS
The 2005 Shamus Awards will be announced at the Bouchercon in Chicago. And lemme say, I like the idea of a lot of fresh blood this time. But a lot of these private eyes are NOT private eyes at all.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievement)
* Sara Paretsky

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* While I Disappear by Ed Wright (John Ray Horn)
* Fade To Clear by Leonard Chang (Allen Choice)
* The Wakeup by Robert Ferrigno (Frank Thorpe)
* After The Rain by Chuck Logan (Phil Broker)
* Choke Point by James Mitchell (Roscoe Brinker)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL P.I. NOVEL

* Fade To Blonde by Max Phillips (construction worker Ray Corson)
* Call The Devil by His Oldest Name by Sallie Bissell (Assistant D.A.Cherokee Mary Crow)
* Shadow Of The Dahlia by Jack Bludis (Rick Page)
* The London Blitz Murders by Max Allan Collins (amateur sleuth Agatha Christie)
* Island Of Bones by P. J. Parrish (Louis Kincaid)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL

* The Dead by Ingrid Black (true-crime writer Saxon)
* Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (John Blake)
* The Last Goodbye by Reed Arvin (Jack Hammond)
* Aspen Pulp by Patrick Hasburgh (Jake Wheeler)
* Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas (Thomas Llewelyn and Cyrus Barker)

2006 SHAMUS AWARDS
The 2006 Shamus Awards were announced at the Bouchercon in Madison, Wisconsin on seoptember 29, in a rollicking affair that saw Mickey Spillane honoured, Max Allan Collins presented with The Eye for Lifetime Achievment, and PWA founder Robert Randisi roasted slowly -- and none too gently -- over an open flame. A grand old time was had by Al. And Bob had a good time too.

THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
* Max Allan Collins

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller)
* Oblivion by Peter Abrahams (Nick Petrov)
* The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole)
* In A Teapot by Terence Faherty (Scott Elliott)
* The Man with the Iron-On Badge by Lee Goldberg (Harvey Mapes)
* Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlins)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Forcing Amaryllis by Louise Ure (Calla Gentry)
* Blood Ties by Lori G. Armstrong (Julie Collins)
* Still River by Harry Hunsicker (Lee Henry Oswald)
* The Devil's Right Hand by J. D. Rhoades (Jack Keller)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL P.I. NOVEL
* The James Deans by Reed Farrell Coleman (Moe Prager)
* Falling Down by David Cole (Laura Winslow)
* Deadlocked by Joel Goldman (Lou Mason)
* Cordite Wine by Richard Helms (Eamon Gold)
* A Killing Rain by PJ Parrish (Louis Kincaid)

2007 SHAMUS AWARDS
The 2007 Shamus Awards were presented in the course of the annual PWA banquet, held in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Bouchercon convention.

THE EYE
* Stuart M. Kaminsky

THE HAMMER
A new annual prize celebrating a memorable private eye character or a series. Named after Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, of course.
* Shell Scott by Richard S. Prather

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* The Dramatist by Ken Bruen (Jack Taylor)
* The Darkest Place by Daniel Judson (Reggie Clay)
* The Do-Re-Me by Ken Kuhlken (Clifford and Tom Hickey)
* Vanishing Point by Marcia Muller (Sharon McCone)
* Days of Rage by Kris Nelscott (Smokey Dalton)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* An Unquiet Grave by P.J. Parrish (Louis Kincaid)
* Hallowed Ground by Lori G. Armstrong (Julie Collins)
* The Prop by Pete Hautman (Peeky Kane)
* The Uncomfortable Dead by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos (Hector Belascoaran Shayne)
* Crooked by Brian M. Wiprud (Nicholas Palihnic)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
* The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes (Ed Loy)
* Lost Angel by Mike Doogan (Nik Kane)
* A Safe Place for Dying by Jack Fredrickson (Dek Elstrom)
* Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith (Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer)
* 18 Seconds by George D. Shuman (Sherry Moore)

2008 SHAMUS AWARDS
The 2008 awards were presented at the PWA banquet, October 10, 2008, in Baltimore, Maryland, during the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.

BEST P.I. NOVEL
* Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Moe Prager)
* Head Games by Thomas B. Cavanagh (Mike Garrity)
* The Color of Blood by Declan Hughes (Ed Loy)
* A Welcome Grave by Michael Koryta (Lincoln Perry)
* A Killer's Kiss by William Lashner (Victor Carl)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
* Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas (John Blake)
* Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong (Nadia Stafford)
* Stone Rain by Linwood Barclay (Zack Walker)
* Deadly Beloved by Max Allan Collins (Ms. Tree)
* Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Jude McManus)

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
* Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (Ray Dudgeon)
* The Cleaner by Brett Battles (Jonathan Quinn)
* Keep It Real by Bill Bryan (Ted Collins)
* When One Man Dies by Dave White (Jackson Donne)
* The Last Striptease by Michael Wiley (Joe Kozmarski)