From wikipedia accessed 7/4/13
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize has been awarded by the South African newspaper The Sunday Times since 2001 to accompany their Alan Paton Award for works of non-fiction. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards. Winners for the fiction prize receive R75 000.
2013: Karen Jayes for For the Mercy of Water
2012: Michiel Heyns for Lost Ground
2011: Sifiso Mzobe for Young Blood
2010: Imraan Coovadia for High Low In-between
2009: Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson
2008: Ceridwen Dovey for Blood Kin
2007: Marlene van Niekerk for Agaat
2006: Andrew Brown for Coldsleep Lullaby
2005: Justin Cartwright for The Promise of Happiness
2004: Rayda Jacobs for Confessions of a Gambler
2003: André P Brink for The Other Side of Silence
2002: Ivan Vladislavic for The Restless Supermarket
2001: Zakes Mda for The Heart of Redness
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Kyoto Prize 1985-2013
Kyoto Prize info from wikipedia (general info & list of winners and from the Inamori Foundation, accessed 6/24/13
Inamori: The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind. The Prize is presented annually in each of the following three categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy.
Laureates shall in principle be individuals (one person per category). However, in special cases a single Prize may be shared among more than one person. Selection is made without regard to nationality, race, sex, age, or religion. Each laureate is presented with a diploma, a 20K gold Kyoto Prize medal, and prize money of 50 million yen per category.
Each Kyoto Prize category comprises four fields. The specific fields to be awarded in a given year are determined each year.
wiki: The Kyoto Prize (京都賞 Kyōto-shō?) is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize. It recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology. It has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The awards are given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective field, but also to those that have contributed to humanity with their work. It has been awarded annually to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind". The Kyoto Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize. It is sometimes referred to as the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Biological sciences
1986: George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S., 1903 – 87)
1990: Jane Goodall (U.K., born 1934)
1993: William Donald Hamilton (U.K., 1936–2000)
1997: Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S., born 1939)
2001: John Maynard Smith (U.K., 1920–2004)
2005: Simon Asher Levin (U.S., born 1941)
2009: Peter Grant (U.K., born 1936) and Rosemary Grant (U.K., born 1936) [1]
2013: Masatoshi Nei (U.S., born 1931)
Mathematical sciences
1989: Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913–2009)
1994: André Weil (France, 1906–1998)
1998: Kiyoshi Itō (Japan, 1915–2008)
2002: Mikhail Gromov (France, born 1943)
2006: Hirotsugu Akaike (Japan, 1927–2009)
2010: László Lovász (Hungary, born 1948)
Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
1987: Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900 – 92)
1991: Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S., 1917–2008)
1995: Chūshirō Hayashi (Japan, 1920–2010)
1999: Walter Heinrich Munk (U.S., born 1917)
2003: Eugene Newman Parker (U.S., born 1927)
2007: Hiroo Kanamori (Japan, born 1936)
2011: Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Russia, born 1943)
Life sciences
1992: Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932–2004)
1996: Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S., born 1937)
2000: Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, born 1939)
2004: Alfred G. Knudson (U.S., born 1922)
2008: Anthony James Pawson (Canada / U.K., born 1952)
2012: Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan, born 1945)
Cognitive science
1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S., born 1928)
Advanced technology
Electronics
1985: Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S., born 1930 in Budapest, Hungary)
1989: Amos E. Joel, Jr. (U.S., 1918–2008)
1993: Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S., 1923–2005)
1997: Federico Faggin (Italy, born 1941), Stanley Mazor (U.S., born 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (U.S., born 1937), Masatoshi Shima (Japan, born 1943)
2001: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, born 1930), Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922–2005), Morton B. Panish (U.S., born 1929)
2005: George H. Heilmeier (U.S., born 1936)
2009: Isamu Akasaki (Japan, born 1929)
2013: Robert H. Dennard (U.S., born 1932)
Biotechnology and medical technology
1986: Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, born 1930)
1990: Sydney Brenner (South Africa, born 1927)
1994: Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S., 1929–2007)
1998: Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, born 1938)
2002: Leroy Edward Hood (U.S., born 1938)
2006: Leonard Herzenberg (U.S., born 1931)
2010: Shinya Yamanaka (Japan, born 1962)
Materials science and engineering
1987: Morris Cohen (U.S., 1911–2005)
1991: Michael Szwarc (U.S., 1909–2000)
1995: George William Gray (U.K., born 1926)
1999: W. David Kingery (U.S., 1926–2000)
2003: George McClelland Whitesides (U.S., born 1939)
2007: Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan, born 1927)
2011: John Werner Cahn (U.S., born 1928)
Information science
1988: John McCarthy (U.S., 1927–2011)
1992: Maurice Vincent Wilkes (U.K., 1913–2010)
1996: Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S., born 1938)
2000: Sir Antony Hoare (U.K., born 1934)
2004: Alan Curtis Kay (U.S., born 1940)
2008: Richard M. Karp (U.S., born 1935)
2012: Ivan Edward Sutherland (U.S., born 1938)
Arts and philosophy
Music
1985: Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908–1992)
1989: John Cage (U.S., 1912–1992)
1993: Witold Lutosławski (Poland, 1913–1994)
1997: Iannis Xenakis (France, 1922–2001)
2001: György Ligeti (Austria, 1923–2006)
2005: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, born 1929)
2009: Pierre Boulez (France, born 1925)
2013: Cecil Taylor (U.S., born 1929)
Arts
1986: Isamu Noguchi (U.S., 1904–1988)
1990: Renzo Piano (Italy, born 1937)
1995: Roy Lichtenstein (U.S., 1923–1997)
1998: Nam June Paik (U.S., 1932–2006)
2002: Tadao Ando (Japan, born 1941)
2006: Issey Miyake (Japan, born 1938)
2010: William Kentridge (South Africa, born 1955)
Theater, cinema
1987: Andrzej Wajda (Poland, born 1926)
1991: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (U.K., born 1925)
1994: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910 – 98)
1999: Maurice Béjart (France, 1927 – 07)
2003: Tamao Yoshida (Japan, born 1919)
2007: Pina Bausch (Germany, 1940–2009)
2011: Tamasaburo Bando V (Japan, born 1950)
Thought and ethics
1988: Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905–2001)
1992: Karl Raimund Popper (U.K., 1902 – 94)
1996: Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S., 1908–2000)
2000: Paul Ricœur (France, 1913–2005)
2004: Jürgen Habermas (Germany, born 1929)
2008: Charles Margrave Taylor (Canada, born 1931)
2012: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (India, born 1942)
Inamori: The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind. The Prize is presented annually in each of the following three categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy.
Laureates shall in principle be individuals (one person per category). However, in special cases a single Prize may be shared among more than one person. Selection is made without regard to nationality, race, sex, age, or religion. Each laureate is presented with a diploma, a 20K gold Kyoto Prize medal, and prize money of 50 million yen per category.
Each Kyoto Prize category comprises four fields. The specific fields to be awarded in a given year are determined each year.
wiki: The Kyoto Prize (京都賞 Kyōto-shō?) is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize. It recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology. It has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The awards are given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective field, but also to those that have contributed to humanity with their work. It has been awarded annually to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind". The Kyoto Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in fields which are traditionally not honored with a Nobel Prize. It is sometimes referred to as the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Biological sciences
1986: George Evelyn Hutchinson (U.S., 1903 – 87)
1990: Jane Goodall (U.K., born 1934)
1993: William Donald Hamilton (U.K., 1936–2000)
1997: Daniel Hunt Janzen (U.S., born 1939)
2001: John Maynard Smith (U.K., 1920–2004)
2005: Simon Asher Levin (U.S., born 1941)
2009: Peter Grant (U.K., born 1936) and Rosemary Grant (U.K., born 1936) [1]
2013: Masatoshi Nei (U.S., born 1931)
Mathematical sciences
1989: Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand (Russia, 1913–2009)
1994: André Weil (France, 1906–1998)
1998: Kiyoshi Itō (Japan, 1915–2008)
2002: Mikhail Gromov (France, born 1943)
2006: Hirotsugu Akaike (Japan, 1927–2009)
2010: László Lovász (Hungary, born 1948)
Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics
1987: Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900 – 92)
1991: Edward Norton Lorenz (U.S., 1917–2008)
1995: Chūshirō Hayashi (Japan, 1920–2010)
1999: Walter Heinrich Munk (U.S., born 1917)
2003: Eugene Newman Parker (U.S., born 1927)
2007: Hiroo Kanamori (Japan, born 1936)
2011: Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Russia, born 1943)
Life sciences
1992: Yasutomi Nishizuka (Japan, 1932–2004)
1996: Mario Renato Capecchi (U.S., born 1937)
2000: Walter Jakob Gehring (Switzerland, born 1939)
2004: Alfred G. Knudson (U.S., born 1922)
2008: Anthony James Pawson (Canada / U.K., born 1952)
2012: Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan, born 1945)
Cognitive science
1988: Avram Noam Chomsky (U.S., born 1928)
Advanced technology
Electronics
1985: Rudolf Emil Kalman (U.S., born 1930 in Budapest, Hungary)
1989: Amos E. Joel, Jr. (U.S., 1918–2008)
1993: Jack St. Clair Kilby (U.S., 1923–2005)
1997: Federico Faggin (Italy, born 1941), Stanley Mazor (U.S., born 1941), Marcian Edward Hoff Jr. (U.S., born 1937), Masatoshi Shima (Japan, born 1943)
2001: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russia, born 1930), Izuo Hayashi (Japan, 1922–2005), Morton B. Panish (U.S., born 1929)
2005: George H. Heilmeier (U.S., born 1936)
2009: Isamu Akasaki (Japan, born 1929)
2013: Robert H. Dennard (U.S., born 1932)
Biotechnology and medical technology
1986: Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (France, born 1930)
1990: Sydney Brenner (South Africa, born 1927)
1994: Paul Christian Lauterbur (U.S., 1929–2007)
1998: Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland, born 1938)
2002: Leroy Edward Hood (U.S., born 1938)
2006: Leonard Herzenberg (U.S., born 1931)
2010: Shinya Yamanaka (Japan, born 1962)
Materials science and engineering
1987: Morris Cohen (U.S., 1911–2005)
1991: Michael Szwarc (U.S., 1909–2000)
1995: George William Gray (U.K., born 1926)
1999: W. David Kingery (U.S., 1926–2000)
2003: George McClelland Whitesides (U.S., born 1939)
2007: Hiroo Inokuchi (Japan, born 1927)
2011: John Werner Cahn (U.S., born 1928)
Information science
1988: John McCarthy (U.S., 1927–2011)
1992: Maurice Vincent Wilkes (U.K., 1913–2010)
1996: Donald Ervin Knuth (U.S., born 1938)
2000: Sir Antony Hoare (U.K., born 1934)
2004: Alan Curtis Kay (U.S., born 1940)
2008: Richard M. Karp (U.S., born 1935)
2012: Ivan Edward Sutherland (U.S., born 1938)
Arts and philosophy
Music
1985: Olivier Messiaen (France, 1908–1992)
1989: John Cage (U.S., 1912–1992)
1993: Witold Lutosławski (Poland, 1913–1994)
1997: Iannis Xenakis (France, 1922–2001)
2001: György Ligeti (Austria, 1923–2006)
2005: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, born 1929)
2009: Pierre Boulez (France, born 1925)
2013: Cecil Taylor (U.S., born 1929)
Arts
1986: Isamu Noguchi (U.S., 1904–1988)
1990: Renzo Piano (Italy, born 1937)
1995: Roy Lichtenstein (U.S., 1923–1997)
1998: Nam June Paik (U.S., 1932–2006)
2002: Tadao Ando (Japan, born 1941)
2006: Issey Miyake (Japan, born 1938)
2010: William Kentridge (South Africa, born 1955)
Theater, cinema
1987: Andrzej Wajda (Poland, born 1926)
1991: Peter Stephen Paul Brook (U.K., born 1925)
1994: Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1910 – 98)
1999: Maurice Béjart (France, 1927 – 07)
2003: Tamao Yoshida (Japan, born 1919)
2007: Pina Bausch (Germany, 1940–2009)
2011: Tamasaburo Bando V (Japan, born 1950)
Thought and ethics
1988: Paul Thieme (Germany, 1905–2001)
1992: Karl Raimund Popper (U.K., 1902 – 94)
1996: Willard Van Orman Quine (U.S., 1908–2000)
2000: Paul Ricœur (France, 1913–2005)
2004: Jürgen Habermas (Germany, born 1929)
2008: Charles Margrave Taylor (Canada, born 1931)
2012: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (India, born 1942)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2003-2013)
Info from The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and wikipedia accessed 6/19/13
The award was established in 2002 by the Swedish government following the death of Pippi Longstocking author Lindgren, aged 94, and is given to a body of work "in the spirit of Astrid Lindgren, with a focus on a profound respect for democratic values and human rights". Previous winners include Philip Pullman, Maurice Sendak and Sonya Hartnett.
"It's nice to be on the list but I'm not going to hold my breath," said Chambers. "I've been on it every year since it started [so] my form is not too good. If I were a racehorse, I wouldn't be backing me."
The winner of the prize, selected by a 12-member jury of experts in children's literature and children's rights, including a member of Lindgren's family is announced in March at Lindgren's birth place in Vimmerby, Sweden.
Year Winner Country
2003 Maurice Sendak United States & Christine Nöstlinger Austria
2004 Lygia Bojunga Nunes Brazil
2005 Philip Pullman United Kingdom & Ryōji Arai Japan
2006 Katherine Paterson United States
2007 Banco del Libro Venezuela
2008 Sonya Hartnett Australia
2009 Tamer Institute for Community Education Palestine
2010 Kitty Crowther - Belgium
2011 Shaun Tan - Australia
2012 Guus Kuijer - Netherlands
2013 Isol - Argentina
The award was established in 2002 by the Swedish government following the death of Pippi Longstocking author Lindgren, aged 94, and is given to a body of work "in the spirit of Astrid Lindgren, with a focus on a profound respect for democratic values and human rights". Previous winners include Philip Pullman, Maurice Sendak and Sonya Hartnett.
"It's nice to be on the list but I'm not going to hold my breath," said Chambers. "I've been on it every year since it started [so] my form is not too good. If I were a racehorse, I wouldn't be backing me."
The winner of the prize, selected by a 12-member jury of experts in children's literature and children's rights, including a member of Lindgren's family is announced in March at Lindgren's birth place in Vimmerby, Sweden.
Year Winner Country
2003 Maurice Sendak United States & Christine Nöstlinger Austria
2004 Lygia Bojunga Nunes Brazil
2005 Philip Pullman United Kingdom & Ryōji Arai Japan
2006 Katherine Paterson United States
2007 Banco del Libro Venezuela
2008 Sonya Hartnett Australia
2009 Tamer Institute for Community Education Palestine
2010 Kitty Crowther - Belgium
2011 Shaun Tan - Australia
2012 Guus Kuijer - Netherlands
2013 Isol - Argentina
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Orwell Prize (1994-2013)
From Orwell Prize info and Wikipedia accessed 6/17/13
he Orwell Prize is regarded as the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. Every year, two prizes are awarded: one for a book, and the other for political journalism. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to 'make political writing into an art'.
The prize was founded by Bernard Crick in 1993, using money from the royalties of the hardback edition of his biography of Orwell. Its sponsors are Richard Blair, the adopted son of Orwell, Reuters, The Political Quarterly, Blackwell Publishing, Media Standards Trust, and A. M. Heath & Company.
Book category
* 1994 Anatol Lieven The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
* 1995 Fionnuala O'Connor In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland
* 1996 Fergal Keane Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
* 1997 Peter Godwin Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
* 1998 Patricia Hollis Jennie Lee: A Life
* 1999 D. M. Thomas Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in His Life
* 2000 Brian Cathcart The Case of Stephen Lawrence
* 2001 Michael Ignatieff Virtual War
* 2002 Miranda Carter Anthony Blunt: His Lives
* 2003 Francis Wheen Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2000
* 2004 Robert Cooper The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty First Century
* 2005 Michael Collins The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class
* 2006 Delia Jarrett-Macauley Moses, Citizen and Me
* 2007 Peter Hennessy Having It So Good: Britain in the 1950s
* 2008 Raja Shehadeh Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
2011 Tom Bingham. The Rule of Law
2012 Toby Harnden, Dead Men Risen
2013 A.T. Williams, A Very British Killing: the death of Baha Mousa
Journalism category
* 1994 Neal Ascherson
* 1995 Paul Foot and Tim Laxton
* 1996 Melanie Phillips
* 1997 Ian Bell
* 1998 Polly Toynbee
* 1999 Robert Fisk
* 2000 David McKittrick
* 2001 David Aaronovitch
* 2002 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
* 2003 Brian Sewell
* 2004 Vanora Bennett
* 2005 Matthew Parris
* 2006 Timothy Garton Ash
* 2007 Peter Beaumont
* 2008 Johann Hari
* 2009 Patrick Cockburn
Book Prize Shortlist 2008
* Nick Cohen What's Left?
* Jay Griffiths Wild
* William Hague William Wilberforce
* Ed Husain The Islamist
* Marina Lewycka Two Caravans
* Raja Shehadeh Palestinian Walks
* Clive Stafford Smith Bad Men
Journalism Prize Shortlist 2008
* Johann Hari The Independent
* Clive James BBC Radio 4
* Anton La Guardia The Economist
* Andrew Rawnsley The Observer
* Mary Riddell The Observer
* Paul Vallely The Independent
Book Prize Shortlist 2009
* Owen Matthews – Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
* Hsiao-Hung Pai – Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour
* Ahmed Rashid – Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
* Mark Thompson – The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918
The winner will be announced April 22 during an awards ceremony at the Foreign Press Association in London.
2010 Longlist
Andy Beckett – When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
576 pages, Faber
Brian Chikwava – Harare North
240 pages, Jonathan Cape
Nick Cohen – Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England
400 pages, Fourth Estate
Christopher de Bellaigue – Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
288 pages, Bloomsbury
Ruth Dudley Edwards – Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice
384 pages, Harvill Secker
Petina Gappah – An Elegy for Easterly
288 pages, Faber; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
David Gardner – Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance
256 pages, I. B. Tauris
Andrea Gillies – Keeper
256 pages, Short Books
Tristram Hunt – The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
464 pages, Allen Lane
John Kampfner – Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty
304 pages, Simon & Schuster
Kenan Malik – From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy
272 pages, Atlantic Books
Vesna Maric – Bluebird: A Memoir
224 pages, Granta Books
Fintan O'Toole – Ship of Fools: How Corruption and Stupidity Killed the Celtic Tiger
250 pages, Faber
Michael Peel – A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
256 pages, I. B. Tauris
Sara Wheeler – The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle
368 pages, Jonathan Cape
Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett – The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
352 pages, Allen Lane
Ben Wilson – What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and is Being Lost
480 pages, Faber
Michela Wrong – It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower
400 pages, Fourth Estate
he Orwell Prize is regarded as the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. Every year, two prizes are awarded: one for a book, and the other for political journalism. In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to 'make political writing into an art'.
The prize was founded by Bernard Crick in 1993, using money from the royalties of the hardback edition of his biography of Orwell. Its sponsors are Richard Blair, the adopted son of Orwell, Reuters, The Political Quarterly, Blackwell Publishing, Media Standards Trust, and A. M. Heath & Company.
Book category
* 1994 Anatol Lieven The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
* 1995 Fionnuala O'Connor In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland
* 1996 Fergal Keane Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
* 1997 Peter Godwin Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
* 1998 Patricia Hollis Jennie Lee: A Life
* 1999 D. M. Thomas Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in His Life
* 2000 Brian Cathcart The Case of Stephen Lawrence
* 2001 Michael Ignatieff Virtual War
* 2002 Miranda Carter Anthony Blunt: His Lives
* 2003 Francis Wheen Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2000
* 2004 Robert Cooper The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty First Century
* 2005 Michael Collins The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class
* 2006 Delia Jarrett-Macauley Moses, Citizen and Me
* 2007 Peter Hennessy Having It So Good: Britain in the 1950s
* 2008 Raja Shehadeh Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
* 2009 Andrew Brown Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the future that disappeared
2010 Andrea Gillies, Keeper: a book about memory, identity, isolation, Wordsworth and cake2011 Tom Bingham. The Rule of Law
2012 Toby Harnden, Dead Men Risen
2013 A.T. Williams, A Very British Killing: the death of Baha Mousa
Journalism category
* 1994 Neal Ascherson
* 1995 Paul Foot and Tim Laxton
* 1996 Melanie Phillips
* 1997 Ian Bell
* 1998 Polly Toynbee
* 1999 Robert Fisk
* 2000 David McKittrick
* 2001 David Aaronovitch
* 2002 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
* 2003 Brian Sewell
* 2004 Vanora Bennett
* 2005 Matthew Parris
* 2006 Timothy Garton Ash
* 2007 Peter Beaumont
* 2008 Johann Hari
* 2009 Patrick Cockburn
Book Prize Shortlist 2008
* Nick Cohen What's Left?
* Jay Griffiths Wild
* William Hague William Wilberforce
* Ed Husain The Islamist
* Marina Lewycka Two Caravans
* Raja Shehadeh Palestinian Walks
* Clive Stafford Smith Bad Men
Journalism Prize Shortlist 2008
* Johann Hari The Independent
* Clive James BBC Radio 4
* Anton La Guardia The Economist
* Andrew Rawnsley The Observer
* Mary Riddell The Observer
* Paul Vallely The Independent
Book Prize Shortlist 2009
* Andrew Brown – Fishing in Utopia: Sweden & The Future That Disappeared
* Tony Judt – Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century* Owen Matthews – Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
* Hsiao-Hung Pai – Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour
* Ahmed Rashid – Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
* Mark Thompson – The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918
The winner will be announced April 22 during an awards ceremony at the Foreign Press Association in London.
2010 Longlist
Andy Beckett – When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
576 pages, Faber
Brian Chikwava – Harare North
240 pages, Jonathan Cape
Nick Cohen – Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England
400 pages, Fourth Estate
Christopher de Bellaigue – Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
288 pages, Bloomsbury
Ruth Dudley Edwards – Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice
384 pages, Harvill Secker
Petina Gappah – An Elegy for Easterly
288 pages, Faber; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
David Gardner – Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance
256 pages, I. B. Tauris
Andrea Gillies – Keeper
256 pages, Short Books
Tristram Hunt – The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
464 pages, Allen Lane
John Kampfner – Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty
304 pages, Simon & Schuster
Kenan Malik – From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy
272 pages, Atlantic Books
Vesna Maric – Bluebird: A Memoir
224 pages, Granta Books
Fintan O'Toole – Ship of Fools: How Corruption and Stupidity Killed the Celtic Tiger
250 pages, Faber
Michael Peel – A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
256 pages, I. B. Tauris
Sara Wheeler – The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle
368 pages, Jonathan Cape
Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett – The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
352 pages, Allen Lane
Ben Wilson – What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and is Being Lost
480 pages, Faber
Michela Wrong – It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower
400 pages, Fourth Estate
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Man Booker international prize (2005-11)
2011 info from The Man Booker Prizes accessed 3/30/11
2011 Finalists:
Wang Anyi (China)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
James Kelman (UK)
John le Carré (UK)
Amin Maalouf (Lebanon)
David Malouf (Australia)
Dacia Maraini (Italy)
Rohinton Mistry (India/Canada)
Philip Pullman (UK)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Philip Roth (USA)
Su Tong (China)
Anne Tyler (USA)
2009
Fourteen authors from 12 countries have been named to the shortlist for the £60,000 ($85,716) Man Booker international prize, which is "awarded once every two years to a writer for their contribution to fiction on the world stage," according to the Guardian.
The contenders:
Peter Carey (Australia) -- added Illywhacker
Evan S Connell (USA) -- added Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
Mahasweta Devi (Bangladesh) -- added Imaginary Maps
EL Doctorow (USA) -- added Welcome to Hard Times
James Kelman (UK) -- added How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) -- added The Feast of the Goat
Arnošt Lustig (Czech Republic) -- added Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel
Alice Munro (Canada) -- added Runaway: Stories -- Winner!
VS Naipaul (Trinidad/India) -- added A House for Mr. Biswas
Joyce Carol Oates (USA) -- added The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) -- added Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya) -- added A Grain of Wheat (African Writers) read this 5/3/09
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia) -- added The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia) -- added Medea and Her Children
2007
Chinua Achebe
2005
Ismail Kadare (inaugural prize)
2011 Finalists:
Wang Anyi (China)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
James Kelman (UK)
John le Carré (UK)
Amin Maalouf (Lebanon)
David Malouf (Australia)
Dacia Maraini (Italy)
Rohinton Mistry (India/Canada)
Philip Pullman (UK)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Philip Roth (USA)
Su Tong (China)
Anne Tyler (USA)
2009
Fourteen authors from 12 countries have been named to the shortlist for the £60,000 ($85,716) Man Booker international prize, which is "awarded once every two years to a writer for their contribution to fiction on the world stage," according to the Guardian.
The contenders:
Peter Carey (Australia) -- added Illywhacker
Evan S Connell (USA) -- added Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
Mahasweta Devi (Bangladesh) -- added Imaginary Maps
EL Doctorow (USA) -- added Welcome to Hard Times
James Kelman (UK) -- added How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) -- added The Feast of the Goat
Arnošt Lustig (Czech Republic) -- added Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel
Alice Munro (Canada) -- added Runaway: Stories -- Winner!
VS Naipaul (Trinidad/India) -- added A House for Mr. Biswas
Joyce Carol Oates (USA) -- added The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) -- added Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya) -- added A Grain of Wheat (African Writers) read this 5/3/09
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia) -- added The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia) -- added Medea and Her Children
2007
Chinua Achebe
2005
Ismail Kadare (inaugural prize)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sami Rohr Prize (2007-2011)
2011 info from Jewish Book Council accessed 2/12/11
Finalists for the Jewish Book Council's $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Stations West by Allison Amend (LSU Press)
The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman (Livingston Press)
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Knopf)
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner (Bellevue Literary Press) --Winner!
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell (Algonquin Books) --Runner-up!
The finalists will meet with the fiction judges on March 15, and the winner, as well as the $25,000 Choice Award given to the first runner-up, will be announced shortly thereafter. The 2011 award ceremony will be held May 31.
From Jewish Book Council Blog accessed 3/14/10
2010 finalists for the fourth annual Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Lila Corwin Berman–Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Ari Y. Kelman – Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States
Kenneth B. Moss – Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution -Winner!
Danya Ruttenberg – Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce -Winner!
2009 Prize
Sana Krasikov's debut short story collection, One More Year: Stories, has won the 2009 $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for emerging writers.
The $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award went to Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz.
2008 Prize
In 2008, Lucette Lagnado was awarded the first non-fiction Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World.
Tamar Yellin for her novel The Genizah at the House of Shepher
Finalists for the Jewish Book Council's $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Stations West by Allison Amend (LSU Press)
The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman (Livingston Press)
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Knopf)
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner (Bellevue Literary Press) --Winner!
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell (Algonquin Books) --Runner-up!
The finalists will meet with the fiction judges on March 15, and the winner, as well as the $25,000 Choice Award given to the first runner-up, will be announced shortly thereafter. The 2011 award ceremony will be held May 31.
From Jewish Book Council Blog accessed 3/14/10
2010 finalists for the fourth annual Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Lila Corwin Berman–Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Ari Y. Kelman – Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States
Kenneth B. Moss – Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution -Winner!
Danya Ruttenberg – Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce -Winner!
2009 Prize
Sana Krasikov's debut short story collection, One More Year: Stories, has won the 2009 $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for emerging writers.
The $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award went to Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz.
2008 Prize
In 2008, Lucette Lagnado was awarded the first non-fiction Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World.
2007 Prize
Tamar Yellin for her novel The Genizah at the House of Shepher
Friday, March 18, 2011
Man Asian Literary Prize (2007-10)
2010 Man Asian Literary Prize, accessed 12/14/10
2010 Longlist
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu --
Way to Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Dahanu Road by Anosh Irani
Serious Men by Manu Joseph --shortlist
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair --shortlist
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe --shortlist
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa --shortlist
Monkey-man by Usha K.R.
Below the Crying Mountain by Criselda Yabes
2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced in July, shortlist announced 10/15/09
Man Asian Literary Prize is an annual award for an "Asian novel unpublished in English". The Prize was launched in 2007 and is now in its third year. [Then are they published in English?]
The objectives of the Asian Literary Prize are: To bring exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community; To facilitate publishing and translation of Asian literature in and into English; and To highlight Asia's developing role in world literature.
The Administrative Committee for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize has today announced the longlist of works for this prize:
Gopilal Acharya , With a Stone in My Heart
Omair Ahmad , Jimmy the Terrorist -- shortlist
Siddharth Chowdhury, Day Scholar -- shortlist
Kishwar Desai , Witness the Night
Samuel Ferrer , The Last Gods of Indochine
Eric Gamalinda , The Descartes Highlands -- shortlist
Ram Govardhan, Rough with the Smooth
Kanishka Gupta, History of Hate
Kameroon Rasheed Ismeer , Memoirs of a Terrorist
Ratika Kapur , Overwinter
Mariam Karim, The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins
Sriram Karri , The Autobiography of a Mad Nation
Nitasha Kaul , Residue -- shortlist
R . Zamora Linmark , Leche
Mario I. Miclat, Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions
Clarissa V. Militante, Different Countries
Varuna Mohite, Omigod
Dipika Mukherjee, Thunder Demons
Hena Pillai , Blackland
Roan Ching-Yueh, Lin Xiu-Tzi and her Family
Edgar Calabia Samar, Eight Muses of the Fall
K. Srilata, Table for Four
Su Tong, The Boat to Redemption -- shortlist -- Winner!
Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Shadow of the Red Star
2008 Prize
Winner
Miguel Syjuco for Ilustrado
Shortlist
Kaveri Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
Yu Hua, Brothers
Alfred A. Yuson, The Music Child
Longlist
Tulsi Badrinath, Melting Love
Hans Billimoria, Ugly tree
Ian Casocot, Sugar Land
Han Dong, Banished
Anjum Hasan, Neti,Neti
Daisy Hasan, The To-Let House
Abdullah Hussein, The Afghan Girl
Tsutomu Igarashi, To the Temple
Rupa Krishnan, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Murong Xuecun, Leave Me Alone, Chengdu
Kavery Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
Sumana Roy, Love in the Chicken’s Neck
Vaibhav Saini, On the Edge of Pandemonium
Salma, Midnight Tales
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Lakambini Sitoy, Sweet Haven
Sarayu Privatsa, The Last Pretense
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
Amit Varma, My Friend, Sancho
Yu Hua, Brothers
Alfred Yuson, The Music Child
2007 Longlist
Tulsi Badrinath, The Living God
Sanjay Bahadur, The Sound Of Water
Kankana Basu, Cappuccino Dusk
Sanjiv Bhatla, InJustice
Shahbano Bilgrami, Without Dreams
Saikat Chakraborty, The Amnesiac
Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad’s Sister --shortlist
Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home --shortlist
Xiaolu Guo, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Ameena Hussein, The Moon in the Water
Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow --shortlist
Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem --winner!
Hitomi Kanehara, Autofiction
N S Madhavan, Litanies of Dutch Battery
Laxmi Narayan Mishra, The Little God
Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Nalini Rajan, The Pangolin’s Tale
Chiew-Siah Tei, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
Shreekumar Varma, Maria’s Room
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Seeing The Girl
Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Pichaikuppan
Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky --shortlist
Egoyan Zheng, Fleeting Light
2010 Longlist
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu --
Way to Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Dahanu Road by Anosh Irani
Serious Men by Manu Joseph --shortlist
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair --shortlist
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe --shortlist
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa --shortlist
Monkey-man by Usha K.R.
Below the Crying Mountain by Criselda Yabes
2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced in July, shortlist announced 10/15/09
Man Asian Literary Prize is an annual award for an "Asian novel unpublished in English". The Prize was launched in 2007 and is now in its third year. [Then are they published in English?]
The objectives of the Asian Literary Prize are: To bring exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community; To facilitate publishing and translation of Asian literature in and into English; and To highlight Asia's developing role in world literature.
The Administrative Committee for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize has today announced the longlist of works for this prize:
Gopilal Acharya , With a Stone in My Heart
Omair Ahmad , Jimmy the Terrorist -- shortlist
Siddharth Chowdhury, Day Scholar -- shortlist
Kishwar Desai , Witness the Night
Samuel Ferrer , The Last Gods of Indochine
Eric Gamalinda , The Descartes Highlands -- shortlist
Ram Govardhan, Rough with the Smooth
Kanishka Gupta, History of Hate
Kameroon Rasheed Ismeer , Memoirs of a Terrorist
Ratika Kapur , Overwinter
Mariam Karim, The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins
Sriram Karri , The Autobiography of a Mad Nation
Nitasha Kaul , Residue -- shortlist
R . Zamora Linmark , Leche
Mario I. Miclat, Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions
Clarissa V. Militante, Different Countries
Varuna Mohite, Omigod
Dipika Mukherjee, Thunder Demons
Hena Pillai , Blackland
Roan Ching-Yueh, Lin Xiu-Tzi and her Family
Edgar Calabia Samar, Eight Muses of the Fall
K. Srilata, Table for Four
Su Tong, The Boat to Redemption -- shortlist -- Winner!
Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Shadow of the Red Star
2008 Prize
Winner
Miguel Syjuco for Ilustrado
Shortlist
Kaveri Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
Yu Hua, Brothers
Alfred A. Yuson, The Music Child
Longlist
Tulsi Badrinath, Melting Love
Hans Billimoria, Ugly tree
Ian Casocot, Sugar Land
Han Dong, Banished
Anjum Hasan, Neti,Neti
Daisy Hasan, The To-Let House
Abdullah Hussein, The Afghan Girl
Tsutomu Igarashi, To the Temple
Rupa Krishnan, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Murong Xuecun, Leave Me Alone, Chengdu
Kavery Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
Sumana Roy, Love in the Chicken’s Neck
Vaibhav Saini, On the Edge of Pandemonium
Salma, Midnight Tales
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Lakambini Sitoy, Sweet Haven
Sarayu Privatsa, The Last Pretense
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
Amit Varma, My Friend, Sancho
Yu Hua, Brothers
Alfred Yuson, The Music Child
2007 Longlist
Tulsi Badrinath, The Living God
Sanjay Bahadur, The Sound Of Water
Kankana Basu, Cappuccino Dusk
Sanjiv Bhatla, InJustice
Shahbano Bilgrami, Without Dreams
Saikat Chakraborty, The Amnesiac
Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad’s Sister --shortlist
Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home --shortlist
Xiaolu Guo, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Ameena Hussein, The Moon in the Water
Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow --shortlist
Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem --winner!
Hitomi Kanehara, Autofiction
N S Madhavan, Litanies of Dutch Battery
Laxmi Narayan Mishra, The Little God
Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Nalini Rajan, The Pangolin’s Tale
Chiew-Siah Tei, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
Shreekumar Varma, Maria’s Room
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Seeing The Girl
Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Pichaikuppan
Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky --shortlist
Egoyan Zheng, Fleeting Light
Thursday, March 17, 2011
International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2008-2011)
from International Prize for Arabic Fiction accessed 12/18/09, 11/11/10
2011 Longlist:
Title Author Nationality
The Arch and the Butterfly. Mohammed Achaari. Moroccan -- Winner!
The Doves' Necklace. Raja Alem. Saudi Arabian -- Shortlist
Turmoil in Jeddah. Maqbul Moussa Al-Alawi. Saudi Arabian
An Oriental Dance. Khalid Al-Bari. Egyptian -- Shortlist
God's Soldiers. Fawaz Haddad. Syrian
Secret Rope. Maha Hassan. Syrian
A Short Life. Renée Hayek. Lebanese
My Tormentor. Bensalem Himmich. Moroccan -- Shortlist
The Andalucian House. Waciny Laredj. Algeria
Women of Wind. Razan Naim Al-Maghrabi. Libyan
The Handsome Jew. Ali Al-Muqri.Yemeni
Common Sins. Fatin Al-Murr. Lebanon
Istasia. Khairy Shalaby. Egyptian
The Hunter of the Chrysalises (or The Head Hunter). Amir Taj Al-Sir. Sudanese -- Shortlist
Brooklyn Heights. Miral Al-Tahawy. Egyptian -- Shortlist
The Eye of the Sun. Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresa. Syria
A panel of judges from Kuwait, Egypt, Tunisia, France and Oman named six finalists for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction during the Beirut International Book Fair in Lebanon. The winner will be announced March 2, 2010, at an awards ceremony during the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, according to the Khaleej Times (via Book2book).
Previous two winners for the prize — Bahaa Taher (Sunset Oasis 2008) and Youssef Ziedan (Azazel 2009) — have not only secured English publications of their novels in the UK, through Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton) and Atlantic Books respectively, but also a number of international deals as a result of the prize.
The 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist:
A Cloudy Day on the West Side by Muhammad Al Mansi Qindeel (Egypt) -- not on GR or Worldcat
Beyond Paradise by Mansoura Ez Eldin (Egypt) -- added Maryam's Maze
America by Rabee Jabir (Lebanon) -- not on GR or Worldcat
Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles by Abdo Khal (Saudi Arabia) -- not on GR or Worldcat-- Winner!
The Lady from Tel Aviv by Rabai’ Madhoun (Palestine)
When the Wolves Grow Old by Jamal Naji (Jordan) -- not on GR or Worldcat
2011 Longlist:
Title Author Nationality
The Arch and the Butterfly. Mohammed Achaari. Moroccan -- Winner!
The Doves' Necklace. Raja Alem. Saudi Arabian -- Shortlist
Turmoil in Jeddah. Maqbul Moussa Al-Alawi. Saudi Arabian
An Oriental Dance. Khalid Al-Bari. Egyptian -- Shortlist
God's Soldiers. Fawaz Haddad. Syrian
Secret Rope. Maha Hassan. Syrian
A Short Life. Renée Hayek. Lebanese
My Tormentor. Bensalem Himmich. Moroccan -- Shortlist
The Andalucian House. Waciny Laredj. Algeria
Women of Wind. Razan Naim Al-Maghrabi. Libyan
The Handsome Jew. Ali Al-Muqri.Yemeni
Common Sins. Fatin Al-Murr. Lebanon
Istasia. Khairy Shalaby. Egyptian
The Hunter of the Chrysalises (or The Head Hunter). Amir Taj Al-Sir. Sudanese -- Shortlist
Brooklyn Heights. Miral Al-Tahawy. Egyptian -- Shortlist
The Eye of the Sun. Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresa. Syria
A panel of judges from Kuwait, Egypt, Tunisia, France and Oman named six finalists for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction during the Beirut International Book Fair in Lebanon. The winner will be announced March 2, 2010, at an awards ceremony during the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, according to the Khaleej Times (via Book2book).
Previous two winners for the prize — Bahaa Taher (Sunset Oasis 2008) and Youssef Ziedan (Azazel 2009) — have not only secured English publications of their novels in the UK, through Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton) and Atlantic Books respectively, but also a number of international deals as a result of the prize.
The 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist:
A Cloudy Day on the West Side by Muhammad Al Mansi Qindeel (Egypt) -- not on GR or Worldcat
Beyond Paradise by Mansoura Ez Eldin (Egypt) -- added Maryam's Maze
America by Rabee Jabir (Lebanon) -- not on GR or Worldcat
Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles by Abdo Khal (Saudi Arabia) -- not on GR or Worldcat-- Winner!
The Lady from Tel Aviv by Rabai’ Madhoun (Palestine)
When the Wolves Grow Old by Jamal Naji (Jordan) -- not on GR or Worldcat
Monday, March 14, 2011
Bisto Book of the Year Award (1990-2011)
2011 info from Children's Books Ireland accessed 3/14/11
The shortlist for the 2011 Children's Books Ireland Bisto Children's Book of the Year:
A Bit Lost by Chris Haughton
Dancing in the Dark by Peter Prendergast
Mac Rí Éireann by Caitríona Hasting and Andrew Whiton
Prim Improper by Deirdre Sullivan
Taking Flight by Sheena Wilknson
The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
The Lunatics Curse by F. E. Higgins
The Owl and the Pussycat, illustrated by Kevin Waldron
Tiny Little Fly, illustrated by Kevin Waldron
Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers
The winner will be announced May 16 in Dublin.
2010 info from Children's Books Ireland accessed 3/25/10
Bisto Book of the Year Awards Shortlist 2010
* An Greasaí Bróg agus na Síoga- Caitríona Hastings and Andrew Whitson
* Chalkline - Jane Mitchell
* Colm and The Lazarus Key - Kieran Mark Crowley
* Gluaiseacht - Alan Titley
* Lincoln and His Boys - Pj Lynch
* The Gates- John Connolly
* The Third Pig Detective Agency- Bob Burke
* There - Marie Louise Fitzpatrick-- Winner! [Picture Book]
The Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards, in partnership with CBI are presented annually in recognition of excellence in writing and/or illustration of books for young people. The awards are administered by CBI, the national organisation for children's books and sponsored by Bisto gravy. The awards are open to any children's book by an author and/or illustrator born or resident in Ireland, written in Irish or English and published between 1st January and 31st December each year.
Past Winners
The Bisto Awards began in 1990 when Bisto Book of the Decade Awards were given to authors Tom McCaughren, George Otto Simms and illustrators Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Jeanette Dunne and David Rooney. This led to the establishment of an annual award made by The Irish Children's Book Trust, later to become Children's Books Ireland.
In the early years of The Bisto Awards, prizes were also given for certain categories, however in 1993 the categories were replaced by The Bisto Merit (Honour) Awards.
Bisto Book of the Year Award Winners and Shortlist 2009
Eilís Dillon Award
Mary Finn Anila's Journey
Honour Award for Illustraton
Oliver Jeffers The Great Paper Caper
Honour Award for Fiction
Kate Thompson Creature of the Night
Judges' Special Recognition Award
Kate Thompson Highway Robbery
Also Shortlisted
Eoin Colfer Airman
Ré O'Laighléis, Susan Edwards and Emily Colenso
Moinín Áine Ní Ghlinn and Carol Betara Briongloidi
Roddy Doyle Her Mother's Face
Pj Lynch (illustrator) The Gift of the Maji
Bisto Book of the Year Award Winners and Shortlist 2008
Siobhan Dowd The London Eye Mystery
Eilís Dillon Award
Tom Kelly The Thing with Finn
Honour Awards
Oliver Jeffers The Way Back Home
F.E. Higgins The Black Book of Secrets
Roddy Doyle Wilderness
Also Shortlisted
Michael Scott The Alchemyst
Jessica O'Donnell Discover Art
Caitriona Nic Sheain agus Andrew Whitson Gaiscíoch na Beilte Uaine An Snathaid Mhor
Kate Thompson The Last of the High Kings
Colin Bateman Titanic 2020
Bisto Book of the Year Awards Winners and Shortlist 2006/2007
Eilís Dillon Award
Honour Awards
Oliver Jeffers The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Hurlamaboc Cois Life
Siobhán Parkinson Something Invisible
Also Shortlisted
Jon Berkeley The Palace of Laughter
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony
Illustrator P.J.Lynch A Christmas Carol
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh agus The Cartoon Saloon An Táin
Kate Thompson The Fourth Horseman
Bisto Book of the Year Award Winners and Shortlist 2005-2006
Eilís Dillon Award
Deirdre Madden Snakes’ Elbows
Honour Awards
Oliver Jeffers Lost and Found
Kevin Kiely A Horse called ElDorado
Eileen O'Hely (author) and Nicky Phelan (illustrator) Penny the Pencil
Also Shortlisted
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
Adrienne Geoghan (illustrator) Fancy That!
Oisin Mc Gann Under Fragile Stone
Dairíne Ní Dhonnchú agus Maria Murray Bríona ag Brionglóideach An Gúm
2004- 2005 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Kate Thompson Annan Water
Eilís Dillon Award
Siobhán Ní Shíthigh
Illustrator: Seán Seosamh Mac an tSíthigh
AN BHÓ RIABHACH An Gúm
The Bisto Merit Awards
Illustrators: Corrina Askin, Alan Clarke and Emma Byrne SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH P.
Oliver Jeffers (author/ Illustrator) HOW TO CATCH A STAR
Oisín McGann THE GODS AND THEIR MACHINES O'Brien Press
Shortlist
Ré Ó Laighléis GOIMH AGUS SCÉALTA EILE Móinín
Kate MacLachlan LOVE MY ENEMY Andersen Press
Olwyn Whelan THE STAR CHILD Chrysalis
Sam McBratney & Anita Jeram (Illustrator) YOU'RE ALL MY FAVOURITES Walker Books
2003 - 2004 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Aubrey Flegg Wings Over Delft
Eilís Dillon Award
Alan Titley Amach An Gúm
The Bisto Merit Awards
Kate Thompson Origins
Anita Jeram You Can do it
Niamh Sharkey (author/ Illustrator) The Ravenous Beast Walker Books
Shortlist
Carlo Gebler August '44
PJ Lynch (illustrator) The Been Man of Orn Walker Books
Mary Murphy (author/ illustrator) I Kissed the Baby Walker Books
Siobhan Parkinson Kathleen and the Celtic Knot
Mary Murphy (author/ illulstrator) Little Owl and the Star Walker Books
2002 - 2003 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year - Joint Winners
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick You, Me and the Big Blue Sea
Kate Thompson The Alchemist's Apprentice
The Bisto Merit Awards
Matthew Sweeney Colmán Ó Raghallaigh Fox Bloomsbury
The Cartoon Saloon (illustrators) An Tóraíocht Cló Mhaigh Eo
Gerard Whelan War Children O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award Grace Wells Gyrfalcon O'Brien Press
Shortlist Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident Puffin Books
Malachy Doyle Who is Jesse Flood? Bloomsbury
Siobhán Parkinson The Love Bean O'Brien Press
2001 - 2002 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Kate Thompson The Beguilers
The Bisto Merit Awards Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl Puffin
Carlo Gébler Caught on a Train Egmont
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh The Cartoon Saloon (illustrators) An Sclábhaí Cló Mhaigh Eo
Eilís Dillon Award Gillian Perdue Adam's Starling O'Brien Press
Shortlist Trevor J. Colgan The Stretford Enders Away Red Fox
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (author / illustrator) I'm A Tiger Too
P.J.Lynch (illustrator) Ignis
Austin McQuinn (author / illustrator) This Will Take Forever Zero to Ten
Martin Waddell Give it to Joe! Walker Books
2000 - 2001 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Izzy and Skunk
The Bisto Merit Awards
Eoin Colfer The Wish List O'Brien Press
Martina Murphy Dirt Tracks Poolbeg Press
Martin Waddell The Orchard Book of Ghostly Stories Orchard Press
Eilís Dillon Award Patrick Deeley The Lost Orchard O'Brien Press
Shortlist Malachy Doyle
Niamh Sharkey (illustrator) Tales from Old Ireland Barefoot Books
Jim Halligan and John Newman Fowl Deeds Wolfhound Press
Adrienne Kennaway (illustrator) This is the Tree Frances Lincoln
Michael Mullen An Bóthar Fada Coiscéim
Siobhán Parkinson Call of the Whales O'Brien Press
1999 - 2000 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Marilyn Taylor Faraway Home
The Bisto Merit Awards
Mary Arrigan Siúloid Bhreá An Gúm
Marilyn McLaughlin Fierce Milly Mammoth/Egmont
Mark O'Sullivan Silent Stones Wolfhound Press
Eilís Dillon Award Marilyn McLaughlin Fierce Milly Mammoth/Egmont
Shortlist
Eoin Colfer Benny and Babe O'Brien Press
Louise Lawrence The Crowlings Collins
Larry O'Loughlin Is Anybody Listening? Wolfhound Press
Gabriel Rosenstock
Piet Sluis (illustrator) Paidín Mháire Mhuigín An Gúm
Niamh Sharkey Jack and the Beanstalk Barefoot Books
Bill Wall The Boy Who Met Hitler Mercier Press
Gerard Whelan Out of Nowhere O'Brien Press
1998 - 1999 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Niamh Sharkey Tales of Wisdom and Wonder
The Bisto Merit Awards
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick The Long March Wolfhound Press
Siobhán Parkinson The Moon King O'Brien Press
Gabriel Rosenstock
Piet Sluis (illustrator) An Rógaire agus a Scáil An Gúm
Eilís Dillon Award Caitríona Hastings Dea-Scéala Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Shortlist
Pat Boran
Stewart Curry (illustrator) All the Way from China Poolbeg Press
Sam McBratney Bert's Wonderful News Walker Books
Tom McCaughren Ride a Pale Horse Anvil Press
Mary Murphy Please Be Quiet Methuen
Niamh Sharkey (illustrator) The Gigantic Turnip Barefoot Books
1997 - 1998 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Gerard Whelan Dream Invader
The Bisto Merit Awards
Soinbhe Lally The Hungry Wind Poolbeg Press
P.J. Lynch When Jessie Came across the Sea Poolbeg Press
Siobhán Parkinson Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (maybe) O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award Ed Miliano It's a Jungle Out There Wolfhound Press
Shortlist Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald
Stephen Hall (illustrator) The World of Colmcille, also known as Columba O'Brien Press
Dan Kissane Angela Clarke (illustrator) Jimmy's Leprechaun Trap O'Brien Press
Dan Kissane Angela Clarke (illustrator) The Eagle Tree O'Brien Press
Larry O'Loughlin John Leonard (illustrator) The Gobán Saor Blackwater Press
Mark O'Sullivan Angels Without Wings Wolfhound Press
Mark O'Sullivan White Lies Wolfhound Press
1996 - 1997 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Siobhán Parkinson Sisters ... No Way !
The Bisto Merit Awards
Cliodhna Cussen and Cormac Ó Snodaigh An Eala Dubh Coiscéim
Maeve Friel The Lantern Moon Poolbeg Press
Gerard Whelan The Guns of Easter O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award
Gerard Whelan The Guns of Easter O'Brien Press
Shortlist Dan Kissane
Aileen Johnston (illustrator)
The Eagle Tree O'Brien Press
P.J. Lynch (illustrator) The King of Ireland's Son Poolbeg Press
Ré Ó Laighléis Gafa Comhar
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh Drochlá Ruairí Cló Mhaigh Eo
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh Róisín ar Strae An Gúm
Mark O'Sullivan More than a Match Wolfhound Press
1995 - 1996 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
P.J. Lynch The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The Bisto Merit Awards
Mary Beckett Hannah or Pink Balloons Marino Books
Ré Ó Laighléis Sceoin sa Bhoireann Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Frank Murphy Lockie and Dadge O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award
Frank Murphy Lockie and Dadge O'Brien Press
Shortlist Marita Conlon McKenna Safe Harbour O'Brien Press
Benedict Kiely The Trout in the Turnhole Wolfhound Press
Paul Muldoon The Last Thesaurus Faber and Faber
Siobhán Parkinson All Shining in the Spring O'Brien Press
Gabriel Rosenstock Piet Sluis (illustrator) Naomh Pádraig agus Crom Dubh An Gúm
Martin Waddell John Joe and the Big Hen An Gúm
1994 - 1995 Bisto Awards
In 1994 the Eilís Dillon Award was established for an author or illustrator of an outstanding first book.
The Bisto Book of the Year
Elizabeth O'Hara Blaeberry Sunday
The Bisto Merit Awards
Rose Doyle Goodbye Summer, Goodbye Attic Press
P.J. Lynch Catkin Poolbeg Press
Ré Ó Laighléis Ecstasy agus Scéalta Eile Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Eilís Dillon Award
Mark O'Sullivan Melody for Nora Wolfhound Press
Shortlist Maeve Friel Distant Voices Poolbeg Press
Tom McCaughren In Search of the Liberty Tree Children's Press
Kate Thompson Switchers Aran
1993 - 1994 Bisto Awards
In 1993 the Bisto Merit Awards replaced the category awards.
The Bisto Book of the Year
Jane Mitchell When Stars Stop Spinning
The Bisto Merit Awards
Sam McBratney The Chieftain's Daughter O'Brien Press
Elizabeth O'Hara The Hiring Fair Poolbeg Press
Máirín Johnston The Pony Express Attic Press
Shortlist Mary Arrigan Lá le Mamo An Gúm
Siobhán Parkinson Amelia O'Brien Press
Maria Quirk-Walshe Searching for a Friend Attic Press
1992 - 1993 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Marita Conlon-McKenna The Blue Horse
Information Book
Mairin Uí Chomain
Deiri and Bébhinn Ó Meadhra (illustrators) Tamall sa Chistin An Gúm
Teenage Fiction Sam McBratney Put a Saddle on the Pig Methuen
Historical Fiction Morgan Llywelyn Strongbow O'Brien Press
Shortlist June Considine View from a Blind Bridge Poolbeg Press
Margrit Cruickshank A Monster called Charlie Poolbeg Press
Maeve Friel The Deerstone Poolbeg Press
Mairéad Ní Nuadháin Cois Trá An Gúm
1991 - 1992 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
John Quinn The Summer of Lily and Esme
Historical Fiction
Marita Conlon-McKenna Wildflower Girl O'Brien Press
Picture Book Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick The Sleeping Giant Brandon Books
First Children's Novel Yvonne MacGrory The Secret of the Ruby Ring Children's Press
No shortlist was complied in 1991
1990 - 1991 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Eilís Dillon The Island of Ghosts
Best Emerging Author Morgan Llywelyn Brian Boru O'Brien Press
Book for Young Readers Martin Waddell Grandma's Bill Simon and Schuster
Illustration P.J. Lynch Fairy Tales of Ireland Collins
Shortlist Marita Conlon-McKenna Under the Hawthorn Tree O'Brien Press
Don Conroy The Celestial Child Kildanore
Michael Mullins The Long March Poolbeg Press
Eilís Ní Dhuibhne The Uncommon Cormorant Poolbeg Press
Joan O'Neill The Daisy Chain War Attic Press
Finola Sumner Double the Boys Poolbeg Press
Bisto Book of the Decade Award 1980 - 1990
Fiction Category
Run with the Wind; Run to Earth; Run Swift, Run Free by Tom McCaughren, Jeanette Dunne (illustrator)
Information Books Category:
Exploring the Book of Kells; Brendan the Navigator by George Otto Simms, David Rooney (illustrator)
Irish Language Category:
An Chanáil Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Bernadine Nic Ghiolla Phádraig (translator) An Gúm
The shortlist for the 2011 Children's Books Ireland Bisto Children's Book of the Year:
A Bit Lost by Chris Haughton
Dancing in the Dark by Peter Prendergast
Mac Rí Éireann by Caitríona Hasting and Andrew Whiton
Prim Improper by Deirdre Sullivan
Taking Flight by Sheena Wilknson
The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
The Lunatics Curse by F. E. Higgins
The Owl and the Pussycat, illustrated by Kevin Waldron
Tiny Little Fly, illustrated by Kevin Waldron
Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers
The winner will be announced May 16 in Dublin.
2010 info from Children's Books Ireland accessed 3/25/10
Bisto Book of the Year Awards Shortlist 2010
* An Greasaí Bróg agus na Síoga- Caitríona Hastings and Andrew Whitson
* Chalkline - Jane Mitchell
* Colm and The Lazarus Key - Kieran Mark Crowley
* Gluaiseacht - Alan Titley
* Lincoln and His Boys - Pj Lynch
* Solace of the Road- Siobhan Dowd
* The Eyeball Collector- FE Higgins* The Gates- John Connolly
* The Third Pig Detective Agency- Bob Burke
* There - Marie Louise Fitzpatrick-- Winner! [Picture Book]
The Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards, in partnership with CBI are presented annually in recognition of excellence in writing and/or illustration of books for young people. The awards are administered by CBI, the national organisation for children's books and sponsored by Bisto gravy. The awards are open to any children's book by an author and/or illustrator born or resident in Ireland, written in Irish or English and published between 1st January and 31st December each year.
Past Winners
The Bisto Awards began in 1990 when Bisto Book of the Decade Awards were given to authors Tom McCaughren, George Otto Simms and illustrators Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Jeanette Dunne and David Rooney. This led to the establishment of an annual award made by The Irish Children's Book Trust, later to become Children's Books Ireland.
In the early years of The Bisto Awards, prizes were also given for certain categories, however in 1993 the categories were replaced by The Bisto Merit (Honour) Awards.
Bisto Book of the Year Award Winners and Shortlist 2009
Siobhan Dowd Bog Child
Eilís Dillon Award
Mary Finn Anila's Journey
Honour Award for Illustraton
Oliver Jeffers The Great Paper Caper
Honour Award for Fiction
Kate Thompson Creature of the Night
Judges' Special Recognition Award
Kate Thompson Highway Robbery
Also Shortlisted
Eoin Colfer Airman
Ré O'Laighléis, Susan Edwards and Emily Colenso
Moinín Áine Ní Ghlinn and Carol Betara Briongloidi
Roddy Doyle Her Mother's Face
Pj Lynch (illustrator) The Gift of the Maji
Bisto Book of the Year Award Winners and Shortlist 2008
Siobhan Dowd The London Eye Mystery
Eilís Dillon Award
Tom Kelly The Thing with Finn
Honour Awards
Oliver Jeffers The Way Back Home
F.E. Higgins The Black Book of Secrets
Roddy Doyle Wilderness
Also Shortlisted
Michael Scott The Alchemyst
Jessica O'Donnell Discover Art
Caitriona Nic Sheain agus Andrew Whitson Gaiscíoch na Beilte Uaine An Snathaid Mhor
Kate Thompson The Last of the High Kings
Colin Bateman Titanic 2020
Bisto Book of the Year Awards Winners and Shortlist 2006/2007
John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Eilís Dillon Award
Siobhan Dowd A Swift Pure Cry
Honour Awards
Oliver Jeffers The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Hurlamaboc Cois Life
Siobhán Parkinson Something Invisible
Also Shortlisted
Jon Berkeley The Palace of Laughter
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony
Illustrator P.J.Lynch A Christmas Carol
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh agus The Cartoon Saloon An Táin
Kate Thompson The Fourth Horseman
Bisto Book of the Year Award Winners and Shortlist 2005-2006
Kate Thompson The New Policeman
Eilís Dillon Award
Deirdre Madden Snakes’ Elbows
Honour Awards
Oliver Jeffers Lost and Found
Kevin Kiely A Horse called ElDorado
Eileen O'Hely (author) and Nicky Phelan (illustrator) Penny the Pencil
Also Shortlisted
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
Adrienne Geoghan (illustrator) Fancy That!
Oisin Mc Gann Under Fragile Stone
Dairíne Ní Dhonnchú agus Maria Murray Bríona ag Brionglóideach An Gúm
2004- 2005 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Kate Thompson Annan Water
Eilís Dillon Award
Siobhán Ní Shíthigh
Illustrator: Seán Seosamh Mac an tSíthigh
AN BHÓ RIABHACH An Gúm
The Bisto Merit Awards
Illustrators: Corrina Askin, Alan Clarke and Emma Byrne SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH P.
Oliver Jeffers (author/ Illustrator) HOW TO CATCH A STAR
Oisín McGann THE GODS AND THEIR MACHINES O'Brien Press
Shortlist
Ré Ó Laighléis GOIMH AGUS SCÉALTA EILE Móinín
Kate MacLachlan LOVE MY ENEMY Andersen Press
Olwyn Whelan THE STAR CHILD Chrysalis
Sam McBratney & Anita Jeram (Illustrator) YOU'RE ALL MY FAVOURITES Walker Books
2003 - 2004 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Aubrey Flegg Wings Over Delft
Eilís Dillon Award
Alan Titley Amach An Gúm
The Bisto Merit Awards
Kate Thompson Origins
Anita Jeram You Can do it
Niamh Sharkey (author/ Illustrator) The Ravenous Beast Walker Books
Shortlist
Carlo Gebler August '44
PJ Lynch (illustrator) The Been Man of Orn Walker Books
Mary Murphy (author/ illustrator) I Kissed the Baby Walker Books
Siobhan Parkinson Kathleen and the Celtic Knot
Mary Murphy (author/ illulstrator) Little Owl and the Star Walker Books
2002 - 2003 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year - Joint Winners
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick You, Me and the Big Blue Sea
Kate Thompson The Alchemist's Apprentice
The Bisto Merit Awards
Matthew Sweeney Colmán Ó Raghallaigh Fox Bloomsbury
The Cartoon Saloon (illustrators) An Tóraíocht Cló Mhaigh Eo
Gerard Whelan War Children O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award Grace Wells Gyrfalcon O'Brien Press
Shortlist Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident Puffin Books
Malachy Doyle Who is Jesse Flood? Bloomsbury
Siobhán Parkinson The Love Bean O'Brien Press
2001 - 2002 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Kate Thompson The Beguilers
The Bisto Merit Awards Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl Puffin
Carlo Gébler Caught on a Train Egmont
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh The Cartoon Saloon (illustrators) An Sclábhaí Cló Mhaigh Eo
Eilís Dillon Award Gillian Perdue Adam's Starling O'Brien Press
Shortlist Trevor J. Colgan The Stretford Enders Away Red Fox
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (author / illustrator) I'm A Tiger Too
P.J.Lynch (illustrator) Ignis
Austin McQuinn (author / illustrator) This Will Take Forever Zero to Ten
Martin Waddell Give it to Joe! Walker Books
2000 - 2001 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Izzy and Skunk
The Bisto Merit Awards
Eoin Colfer The Wish List O'Brien Press
Martina Murphy Dirt Tracks Poolbeg Press
Martin Waddell The Orchard Book of Ghostly Stories Orchard Press
Eilís Dillon Award Patrick Deeley The Lost Orchard O'Brien Press
Shortlist Malachy Doyle
Niamh Sharkey (illustrator) Tales from Old Ireland Barefoot Books
Jim Halligan and John Newman Fowl Deeds Wolfhound Press
Adrienne Kennaway (illustrator) This is the Tree Frances Lincoln
Michael Mullen An Bóthar Fada Coiscéim
Siobhán Parkinson Call of the Whales O'Brien Press
1999 - 2000 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Marilyn Taylor Faraway Home
The Bisto Merit Awards
Mary Arrigan Siúloid Bhreá An Gúm
Marilyn McLaughlin Fierce Milly Mammoth/Egmont
Mark O'Sullivan Silent Stones Wolfhound Press
Eilís Dillon Award Marilyn McLaughlin Fierce Milly Mammoth/Egmont
Shortlist
Eoin Colfer Benny and Babe O'Brien Press
Louise Lawrence The Crowlings Collins
Larry O'Loughlin Is Anybody Listening? Wolfhound Press
Gabriel Rosenstock
Piet Sluis (illustrator) Paidín Mháire Mhuigín An Gúm
Niamh Sharkey Jack and the Beanstalk Barefoot Books
Bill Wall The Boy Who Met Hitler Mercier Press
Gerard Whelan Out of Nowhere O'Brien Press
1998 - 1999 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Niamh Sharkey Tales of Wisdom and Wonder
The Bisto Merit Awards
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick The Long March Wolfhound Press
Siobhán Parkinson The Moon King O'Brien Press
Gabriel Rosenstock
Piet Sluis (illustrator) An Rógaire agus a Scáil An Gúm
Eilís Dillon Award Caitríona Hastings Dea-Scéala Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Shortlist
Pat Boran
Stewart Curry (illustrator) All the Way from China Poolbeg Press
Sam McBratney Bert's Wonderful News Walker Books
Tom McCaughren Ride a Pale Horse Anvil Press
Mary Murphy Please Be Quiet Methuen
Niamh Sharkey (illustrator) The Gigantic Turnip Barefoot Books
1997 - 1998 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Gerard Whelan Dream Invader
The Bisto Merit Awards
Soinbhe Lally The Hungry Wind Poolbeg Press
P.J. Lynch When Jessie Came across the Sea Poolbeg Press
Siobhán Parkinson Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (maybe) O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award Ed Miliano It's a Jungle Out There Wolfhound Press
Shortlist Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald
Stephen Hall (illustrator) The World of Colmcille, also known as Columba O'Brien Press
Dan Kissane Angela Clarke (illustrator) Jimmy's Leprechaun Trap O'Brien Press
Dan Kissane Angela Clarke (illustrator) The Eagle Tree O'Brien Press
Larry O'Loughlin John Leonard (illustrator) The Gobán Saor Blackwater Press
Mark O'Sullivan Angels Without Wings Wolfhound Press
Mark O'Sullivan White Lies Wolfhound Press
1996 - 1997 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Siobhán Parkinson Sisters ... No Way !
The Bisto Merit Awards
Cliodhna Cussen and Cormac Ó Snodaigh An Eala Dubh Coiscéim
Maeve Friel The Lantern Moon Poolbeg Press
Gerard Whelan The Guns of Easter O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award
Gerard Whelan The Guns of Easter O'Brien Press
Shortlist Dan Kissane
Aileen Johnston (illustrator)
The Eagle Tree O'Brien Press
P.J. Lynch (illustrator) The King of Ireland's Son Poolbeg Press
Ré Ó Laighléis Gafa Comhar
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh Drochlá Ruairí Cló Mhaigh Eo
Colmán Ó Raghallaigh Róisín ar Strae An Gúm
Mark O'Sullivan More than a Match Wolfhound Press
1995 - 1996 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
P.J. Lynch The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The Bisto Merit Awards
Mary Beckett Hannah or Pink Balloons Marino Books
Ré Ó Laighléis Sceoin sa Bhoireann Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Frank Murphy Lockie and Dadge O'Brien Press
Eilís Dillon Award
Frank Murphy Lockie and Dadge O'Brien Press
Shortlist Marita Conlon McKenna Safe Harbour O'Brien Press
Benedict Kiely The Trout in the Turnhole Wolfhound Press
Paul Muldoon The Last Thesaurus Faber and Faber
Siobhán Parkinson All Shining in the Spring O'Brien Press
Gabriel Rosenstock Piet Sluis (illustrator) Naomh Pádraig agus Crom Dubh An Gúm
Martin Waddell John Joe and the Big Hen An Gúm
1994 - 1995 Bisto Awards
In 1994 the Eilís Dillon Award was established for an author or illustrator of an outstanding first book.
The Bisto Book of the Year
Elizabeth O'Hara Blaeberry Sunday
The Bisto Merit Awards
Rose Doyle Goodbye Summer, Goodbye Attic Press
P.J. Lynch Catkin Poolbeg Press
Ré Ó Laighléis Ecstasy agus Scéalta Eile Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Eilís Dillon Award
Mark O'Sullivan Melody for Nora Wolfhound Press
Shortlist Maeve Friel Distant Voices Poolbeg Press
Tom McCaughren In Search of the Liberty Tree Children's Press
Kate Thompson Switchers Aran
1993 - 1994 Bisto Awards
In 1993 the Bisto Merit Awards replaced the category awards.
The Bisto Book of the Year
Jane Mitchell When Stars Stop Spinning
The Bisto Merit Awards
Sam McBratney The Chieftain's Daughter O'Brien Press
Elizabeth O'Hara The Hiring Fair Poolbeg Press
Máirín Johnston The Pony Express Attic Press
Shortlist Mary Arrigan Lá le Mamo An Gúm
Siobhán Parkinson Amelia O'Brien Press
Maria Quirk-Walshe Searching for a Friend Attic Press
1992 - 1993 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Marita Conlon-McKenna The Blue Horse
Information Book
Mairin Uí Chomain
Deiri and Bébhinn Ó Meadhra (illustrators) Tamall sa Chistin An Gúm
Teenage Fiction Sam McBratney Put a Saddle on the Pig Methuen
Historical Fiction Morgan Llywelyn Strongbow O'Brien Press
Shortlist June Considine View from a Blind Bridge Poolbeg Press
Margrit Cruickshank A Monster called Charlie Poolbeg Press
Maeve Friel The Deerstone Poolbeg Press
Mairéad Ní Nuadháin Cois Trá An Gúm
1991 - 1992 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
John Quinn The Summer of Lily and Esme
Historical Fiction
Marita Conlon-McKenna Wildflower Girl O'Brien Press
Picture Book Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick The Sleeping Giant Brandon Books
First Children's Novel Yvonne MacGrory The Secret of the Ruby Ring Children's Press
No shortlist was complied in 1991
1990 - 1991 Bisto Awards
The Bisto Book of the Year
Eilís Dillon The Island of Ghosts
Best Emerging Author Morgan Llywelyn Brian Boru O'Brien Press
Book for Young Readers Martin Waddell Grandma's Bill Simon and Schuster
Illustration P.J. Lynch Fairy Tales of Ireland Collins
Shortlist Marita Conlon-McKenna Under the Hawthorn Tree O'Brien Press
Don Conroy The Celestial Child Kildanore
Michael Mullins The Long March Poolbeg Press
Eilís Ní Dhuibhne The Uncommon Cormorant Poolbeg Press
Joan O'Neill The Daisy Chain War Attic Press
Finola Sumner Double the Boys Poolbeg Press
Bisto Book of the Decade Award 1980 - 1990
Fiction Category
Run with the Wind; Run to Earth; Run Swift, Run Free by Tom McCaughren, Jeanette Dunne (illustrator)
Information Books Category:
Exploring the Book of Kells; Brendan the Navigator by George Otto Simms, David Rooney (illustrator)
Irish Language Category:
An Chanáil Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Bernadine Nic Ghiolla Phádraig (translator) An Gúm
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]
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
Monday, March 7, 2011
Story Prize (2004-2010)
The Story Prize is an annual book award honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award. Each of two runners-up will receive $5,000. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar year.
2010 Story Prize accessed 3/7/11
Anthony Doerr. Memory Wall
2010 Finalists
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Death Is Not An Option by Suzanne Rivecca
2010 Long List
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam (Pantheon)
Miracle Boy by Pinckney Benedict (Press 53)
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black (Random House)
Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs (Graywolf Press)
Cheyenne Madonna by Eddie Chuculate (Black Sparrow Press)
Vida by Patricia Engle (Black Cat)
Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin (Coffee House Press)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Riverhead Books)
What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer Press)
Life Times by Nadine Gordimer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray (FC2)
What He's Poised to Do by Ben Greenman (Harper Perennial)
The Spot by David Means (Faber and Faber)
Sourland by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe by Dawn Raffel (Dzanc Books)
Burning Bright by Ron Rash (Ecco)
Cut Through the Bone by Ethel Rohan (Dark Sky Books)
Alone with You by Marisa Silver (Scribner)
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville (Fetherproof Books)
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor (Harper Perennial)
Cradle Book by Craig Morgan Teicher (BOA Editions)
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson (W.W. Norton)
2009 Long List
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck (Alfred A. Knopf)
Robert Boswell, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf Press)
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press and, later, W.W. Norton)
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible (HarperCollins)
BrianEvenson, Fugue State (Coffee House Press)
Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly (Faber and Faber)
Aleksander Hemon, Love And Obstacles (Riverhead Books)
Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another (Harper Perennial)
James Lasdun, It's Beginning to Hurt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
J. Robert Lennon, Pieces for the Left Hand (Graywolf Prress)
Caitlin Macy, Spoiled (Random House)
Lydia Millet, Love in Infant Monkeys (Soft Skull Press)
Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World (University of Georgia Press)
Jean Thompson, Do Not Deny Me (Simon & Schuster)
Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
2008 Winner
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
2008 Finalists
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno
2008 Longlist
A Better Angel by Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan (Little, Brown)
The Development by John Barth (Houghton Mifflin)
The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier (Pantheon)
Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Harcourt)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (HarperCollins)
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass (Pantheon)
The Boat by Nam Le (Knopf)
Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx (Scribner)
Glass Grapes and Other Stories by Martha Ronk (BOA Editions)
The Size of the World by Joan Silber (W.W. Norton)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
2007 Winner
Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
2007 Finalists
Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
2007 Longlist
Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry
Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money by Rebecca Curtis
Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis
The Animal Girl by John Fulton
Human Resources by Josh Goldfaden
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Teach the Free Man by Peter Nathaniel Malae
Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy
Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash
Twin Study by Stacey Richter
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
Throw Like a Girl by Jean Thompson
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín (Scribner)
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams
2006 Winner
Mary Gordon for The Stories of Mary Gordon
2006 Finalists
The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
2006 Longlist
Joyce Carol Oates’s High Lonesome
All Things, All at Once by Lee K. Abbott
Nancy Culpepper by Bobbie Ann Mason
Deborah Eisenberg’s Twilight of the Superheroes
Joanna Scott’s Everybody Loves Somebody
The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes
Edward Jones’s All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Samrat Upadhyay’s The Royal Ghosts
Valerie Martin’s The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
Thomas McGuane’s Galatin Canyon
Antonya Nelson’s Some Fun
Charles D’Ambrosio’s The Dead Fish Museum
Ryan Boudinot’s The Littlest Hitler
Benjamin Percy’s The Language of Elk
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
Scott Snyder’s Voodoo Heart
The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman
Babylon and Other Stories by Alix Ohlin
Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters with Che Guevera
2005 Winner
The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keeffe
2005 Finalists
The Summer He Didn’t Die by Jim Harrison
Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh
2005 Shortlist
War By Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón
Follies by Anne Beattie
Fascination by William Boyd
Tooth and Claw by T.C. Boyle
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
A Child Again by Robert Coover
Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Michael Martone by Michael Martone
Stop That Girl by Elizabeth McKenzie
Last Night by James Salter
God's Gym by John Edgar Wideman
2004 Winner
Edwidge Danticat The Dew Breaker
2004 Finalists
The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
2010 Story Prize accessed 3/7/11
Anthony Doerr. Memory Wall
2010 Finalists
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Death Is Not An Option by Suzanne Rivecca
2010 Long List
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam (Pantheon)
Miracle Boy by Pinckney Benedict (Press 53)
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black (Random House)
Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs (Graywolf Press)
Cheyenne Madonna by Eddie Chuculate (Black Sparrow Press)
Vida by Patricia Engle (Black Cat)
Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin (Coffee House Press)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Riverhead Books)
What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer Press)
Life Times by Nadine Gordimer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray (FC2)
What He's Poised to Do by Ben Greenman (Harper Perennial)
The Spot by David Means (Faber and Faber)
Sourland by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe by Dawn Raffel (Dzanc Books)
Burning Bright by Ron Rash (Ecco)
Cut Through the Bone by Ethel Rohan (Dark Sky Books)
Alone with You by Marisa Silver (Scribner)
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville (Fetherproof Books)
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor (Harper Perennial)
Cradle Book by Craig Morgan Teicher (BOA Editions)
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson (W.W. Norton)
From The Story Prize accessed 3/4/10
2009 Story Prize
Daniyal Mueenuddin. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
2009 Finalists
Victoria Patterson for Drift
Wells Tower for Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned.
2009 Long List
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck (Alfred A. Knopf)
Robert Boswell, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf Press)
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press and, later, W.W. Norton)
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible (HarperCollins)
BrianEvenson, Fugue State (Coffee House Press)
Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly (Faber and Faber)
Aleksander Hemon, Love And Obstacles (Riverhead Books)
Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another (Harper Perennial)
James Lasdun, It's Beginning to Hurt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
J. Robert Lennon, Pieces for the Left Hand (Graywolf Prress)
Caitlin Macy, Spoiled (Random House)
Lydia Millet, Love in Infant Monkeys (Soft Skull Press)
Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World (University of Georgia Press)
Jean Thompson, Do Not Deny Me (Simon & Schuster)
Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
2008 Winner
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
2008 Finalists
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno
2008 Longlist
A Better Angel by Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan (Little, Brown)
The Development by John Barth (Houghton Mifflin)
The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier (Pantheon)
Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Harcourt)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (HarperCollins)
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass (Pantheon)
The Boat by Nam Le (Knopf)
Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx (Scribner)
Glass Grapes and Other Stories by Martha Ronk (BOA Editions)
The Size of the World by Joan Silber (W.W. Norton)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
2007 Winner
Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
2007 Finalists
Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
2007 Longlist
Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry
Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money by Rebecca Curtis
Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis
The Animal Girl by John Fulton
Human Resources by Josh Goldfaden
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Teach the Free Man by Peter Nathaniel Malae
Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy
Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash
Twin Study by Stacey Richter
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
Throw Like a Girl by Jean Thompson
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín (Scribner)
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams
2006 Winner
Mary Gordon for The Stories of Mary Gordon
2006 Finalists
The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
2006 Longlist
Joyce Carol Oates’s High Lonesome
All Things, All at Once by Lee K. Abbott
Nancy Culpepper by Bobbie Ann Mason
Deborah Eisenberg’s Twilight of the Superheroes
Joanna Scott’s Everybody Loves Somebody
The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes
Edward Jones’s All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Samrat Upadhyay’s The Royal Ghosts
Valerie Martin’s The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
Thomas McGuane’s Galatin Canyon
Antonya Nelson’s Some Fun
Charles D’Ambrosio’s The Dead Fish Museum
Ryan Boudinot’s The Littlest Hitler
Benjamin Percy’s The Language of Elk
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
Scott Snyder’s Voodoo Heart
The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman
Babylon and Other Stories by Alix Ohlin
Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters with Che Guevera
2005 Winner
The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keeffe
2005 Finalists
The Summer He Didn’t Die by Jim Harrison
Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh
2005 Shortlist
War By Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón
Follies by Anne Beattie
Fascination by William Boyd
Tooth and Claw by T.C. Boyle
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
A Child Again by Robert Coover
Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Michael Martone by Michael Martone
Stop That Girl by Elizabeth McKenzie
Last Night by James Salter
God's Gym by John Edgar Wideman
2004 Winner
Edwidge Danticat The Dew Breaker
2004 Finalists
The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
Friday, February 4, 2011
Egypt books
From Shelf Awareness 2/4/11
Saqi Books, with offices in San Francisco, London and Beirut and distributed in the U.S. by Consortium, offers two more books that pertain to the events in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition by Alison Pargeter, published last December in hardcover, is a history of the secretive but extremely influential Egyptian group that was founded in 1928.
Brothers in Arms: The Story of al-Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists by Camille Tawil, which will be published in April in trade paper, explores how the failure of jihadi movements in Egypt, Libya and Algeria in the 1990s and the War on Terror have brought militant Islamic groups increasingly under the influence of Osama bin Laden.
From the NYT 2/3/11
For another view of the NYT list see What Does the NYT think you should read about Egypt? I'll copy the post below the NYT list
FEBRUARY 3, 2011, 4:45 PM
A Reading List for the Egypt Crisis
By ALEXANDER STAR
It took only a few days for Egyptian protesters to bring the regime of Hosni Mubarak to near collapse. But it took decades for the conditions for revolt to ripen. A range of widely noted books offer clues to the country’s accumulated discontents and thwarted desires. Max Rodenbeck’s Cairo: The City Victorious is a cultural and social history of the Arab world’s largest city, written by the Economist’s Middle East Correspondent. Mary Anne Weaver’s A Portrait of Egypt examines Egyptian society in the 1990s, with an emphasis on Islamist opponents of the Mubarak regime.
Dispatches From the Book Review
In recent years, scholars have fervently debated the evolution of Egypt’s main opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it seek to drastically remake Egyptian society along strict religious lines, or has it entered a “post-Islamist” phase characterized by moderation and tolerance? The latter argument is made by Carrie Wickham in her study of grass-roots activists, Mobilizing Islam. More jaundiced views of the movement in Egypt and its offshoots elsewhere can be found in a new collection edited by Barry Rubin entitled The Muslim Brotherhood. Even as the Brotherhood moderated its message and perhaps its worldview, some of its former members turned to acts of spectacular violence. Their doings are the subject of Giles Kepel’s Muslim Extremism in Egypt, and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which suggests that Mubarak’s torture cells radicalized Egyptian Islamists such as the future al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and helped bring about the Sept. 11 attacks. Lee Smith’s The Strong Horse explores the Mubarak government’s cynical efforts to manipulate popular sentiment and maintain power.
Though Egypt’s cultural prominence has faded, it remains the home of important literary figures, many of whom work in the shadow of the late Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy and Cairo Modern examine the ideological and erotic entanglements of Cairenes in the last years of British imperial rule. Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubin Building is a popular novel about a Cairo apartment house whose fortunes reflect those of the country at large. Among the most admired Egyptian novels of recent years is Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat, which turns an office worker’s aspirations to become a world-class consumer into bitter comedy. A many-layered picture of 20th century Egypt emerges in the novelist Taha Hussein’s memoir The Days, which follows a poor, blind village boy who makes his way to Cairo, acquires an education, loses his university post for his controversial writings on Egypt’s pre-Islamic past, and eventually becomes a cultural hero.
Readers interested in assessing American influence in Egypt might turn to Master of Games by the longtime CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr.. Copeland, the father of Stewart Copeland, the drummer for the Police, and Miles Copeland III, the record producer, relates (and perhaps embellishes) his elaborate efforts to keep General Nasser from slipping into the Soviet orbit. In his classic Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, the historian Albert Hourani looked back further to a time in the early 20th century that seems especially relevant now — a moment when Egyptian and other Arab thinkers steeped in Enlightenment ideals hoped to see a robust democracy emerge from a moribund dictatorship.
----------
What Does the NYT think you should read about Egypt?
Despite a general worldwide support for the aspirations of the Egyptian people, some do seem to be buying the regime’s spin on the uprising.
Indeed, the NY Times “Paper Cuts” section seems to have scrambled on board the “if not me, then chaos and hardline Islamism!” bandwagon. Their “Reading List for the Egypt Crisis” starts out with Max Rodenbeck’s perfectly acceptable Cairo: The City Victorious, but then quickly descends into offerings that focus on Islamists and Islam: Mobilizing Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, and The Looming Tower.
Are you scared yet?
From the literary side of the world, they unsurprisingly suggest the Cairo Trilogy, by our Nobel Prize winning Naguib Mahfouz, as well as Alaa al-Aswany’s internationally best-selling Yacoubian Building (because it was made into a movie?), Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat, and Taha Hussein’s The Days. Yes, the Trilogy and The Days are beautiful books, but the only one that seems relevant to the aforementioned “crisis” is Zaat.
Of course, mixing politics and literature is always dubious: Let’s not pretend we can learn much about the aspirations and fears of contemporary Russians by reading Tolstoy.
As to “relevant” Egyptian authors, you could read Nawal al-Saadawi, because she’s down in Tahrir and a brave soul if ever there was one, but she’s hardly Egypt’s best literary stylist. Mohamed Mansi Qandil has a book that’s perhaps both “relevant” and beautiful: Moon Over Samarqand, translated by Issa J. Boullata and published by AUC Press. Plus, it’s got Islamists in it!
Khaled al-Khamissi’s Taxi is good pop literature, fun to read, and paints a contemporary Egyptian landscape. It was translated by Jonathan Wright and published by the embattled Aflame, so I hope you can still get it. If you can, also get a copy of Sonallah Ibrahim’s gorgeous Stealth (translated by Hosam Aboul-Ela), which has no particular relevance to events in Tahrir, but it’s such a lovely novel, and Ibrahim is also a brave soul.
Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s A Dog with No Tail paints a circling and re-circling portrait of deprived Egypt; it won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and has a great deal to recommend it.
And, if you really insist on reading about Islamists, at least read an Egyptian. Khaled al-Berry, shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, published a memoir in 2009 that follows his time as a member of an Islamist movement, and—probably more importantly—sketches a picture of his very relatable adolescence. Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise was translated by Humphrey Davies and published by AUC Press.
I love Fathy Ghanem’s The Man Who Lost His Shadow, which probably throws no light on Egypt’s current constitutional crisis. However, many of the more recent books that talk about protests and police—such as Butterfly Wings, by Mohamed Salmawy—are not yet available in English.
If you want politics, I don’t suggest reading the books of former CIA officers, a la Paper Cuts. But do go and pick up Tim Mitchell’s Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity and his yellow book, Colonising Egypt.
Saqi Books, with offices in San Francisco, London and Beirut and distributed in the U.S. by Consortium, offers two more books that pertain to the events in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition by Alison Pargeter, published last December in hardcover, is a history of the secretive but extremely influential Egyptian group that was founded in 1928.
Brothers in Arms: The Story of al-Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists by Camille Tawil, which will be published in April in trade paper, explores how the failure of jihadi movements in Egypt, Libya and Algeria in the 1990s and the War on Terror have brought militant Islamic groups increasingly under the influence of Osama bin Laden.
From the NYT 2/3/11
For another view of the NYT list see What Does the NYT think you should read about Egypt? I'll copy the post below the NYT list
FEBRUARY 3, 2011, 4:45 PM
A Reading List for the Egypt Crisis
By ALEXANDER STAR
It took only a few days for Egyptian protesters to bring the regime of Hosni Mubarak to near collapse. But it took decades for the conditions for revolt to ripen. A range of widely noted books offer clues to the country’s accumulated discontents and thwarted desires. Max Rodenbeck’s Cairo: The City Victorious is a cultural and social history of the Arab world’s largest city, written by the Economist’s Middle East Correspondent. Mary Anne Weaver’s A Portrait of Egypt examines Egyptian society in the 1990s, with an emphasis on Islamist opponents of the Mubarak regime.
Dispatches From the Book Review
In recent years, scholars have fervently debated the evolution of Egypt’s main opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it seek to drastically remake Egyptian society along strict religious lines, or has it entered a “post-Islamist” phase characterized by moderation and tolerance? The latter argument is made by Carrie Wickham in her study of grass-roots activists, Mobilizing Islam. More jaundiced views of the movement in Egypt and its offshoots elsewhere can be found in a new collection edited by Barry Rubin entitled The Muslim Brotherhood. Even as the Brotherhood moderated its message and perhaps its worldview, some of its former members turned to acts of spectacular violence. Their doings are the subject of Giles Kepel’s Muslim Extremism in Egypt, and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which suggests that Mubarak’s torture cells radicalized Egyptian Islamists such as the future al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and helped bring about the Sept. 11 attacks. Lee Smith’s The Strong Horse explores the Mubarak government’s cynical efforts to manipulate popular sentiment and maintain power.
Though Egypt’s cultural prominence has faded, it remains the home of important literary figures, many of whom work in the shadow of the late Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy and Cairo Modern examine the ideological and erotic entanglements of Cairenes in the last years of British imperial rule. Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubin Building is a popular novel about a Cairo apartment house whose fortunes reflect those of the country at large. Among the most admired Egyptian novels of recent years is Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat, which turns an office worker’s aspirations to become a world-class consumer into bitter comedy. A many-layered picture of 20th century Egypt emerges in the novelist Taha Hussein’s memoir The Days, which follows a poor, blind village boy who makes his way to Cairo, acquires an education, loses his university post for his controversial writings on Egypt’s pre-Islamic past, and eventually becomes a cultural hero.
Readers interested in assessing American influence in Egypt might turn to Master of Games by the longtime CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr.. Copeland, the father of Stewart Copeland, the drummer for the Police, and Miles Copeland III, the record producer, relates (and perhaps embellishes) his elaborate efforts to keep General Nasser from slipping into the Soviet orbit. In his classic Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, the historian Albert Hourani looked back further to a time in the early 20th century that seems especially relevant now — a moment when Egyptian and other Arab thinkers steeped in Enlightenment ideals hoped to see a robust democracy emerge from a moribund dictatorship.
----------
What Does the NYT think you should read about Egypt?
Despite a general worldwide support for the aspirations of the Egyptian people, some do seem to be buying the regime’s spin on the uprising.
Indeed, the NY Times “Paper Cuts” section seems to have scrambled on board the “if not me, then chaos and hardline Islamism!” bandwagon. Their “Reading List for the Egypt Crisis” starts out with Max Rodenbeck’s perfectly acceptable Cairo: The City Victorious, but then quickly descends into offerings that focus on Islamists and Islam: Mobilizing Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, and The Looming Tower.
Are you scared yet?
From the literary side of the world, they unsurprisingly suggest the Cairo Trilogy, by our Nobel Prize winning Naguib Mahfouz, as well as Alaa al-Aswany’s internationally best-selling Yacoubian Building (because it was made into a movie?), Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat, and Taha Hussein’s The Days. Yes, the Trilogy and The Days are beautiful books, but the only one that seems relevant to the aforementioned “crisis” is Zaat.
Of course, mixing politics and literature is always dubious: Let’s not pretend we can learn much about the aspirations and fears of contemporary Russians by reading Tolstoy.
As to “relevant” Egyptian authors, you could read Nawal al-Saadawi, because she’s down in Tahrir and a brave soul if ever there was one, but she’s hardly Egypt’s best literary stylist. Mohamed Mansi Qandil has a book that’s perhaps both “relevant” and beautiful: Moon Over Samarqand, translated by Issa J. Boullata and published by AUC Press. Plus, it’s got Islamists in it!
Khaled al-Khamissi’s Taxi is good pop literature, fun to read, and paints a contemporary Egyptian landscape. It was translated by Jonathan Wright and published by the embattled Aflame, so I hope you can still get it. If you can, also get a copy of Sonallah Ibrahim’s gorgeous Stealth (translated by Hosam Aboul-Ela), which has no particular relevance to events in Tahrir, but it’s such a lovely novel, and Ibrahim is also a brave soul.
Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s A Dog with No Tail paints a circling and re-circling portrait of deprived Egypt; it won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and has a great deal to recommend it.
And, if you really insist on reading about Islamists, at least read an Egyptian. Khaled al-Berry, shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, published a memoir in 2009 that follows his time as a member of an Islamist movement, and—probably more importantly—sketches a picture of his very relatable adolescence. Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise was translated by Humphrey Davies and published by AUC Press.
I love Fathy Ghanem’s The Man Who Lost His Shadow, which probably throws no light on Egypt’s current constitutional crisis. However, many of the more recent books that talk about protests and police—such as Butterfly Wings, by Mohamed Salmawy—are not yet available in English.
If you want politics, I don’t suggest reading the books of former CIA officers, a la Paper Cuts. But do go and pick up Tim Mitchell’s Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity and his yellow book, Colonising Egypt.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Best Translated Books 2008,2010
2011 info from Three Percent accessed 1/27/11
The 2011 BTBA Fiction Longlist (in alphabetical order by author):
The Literary Conference by César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver
The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated from the Czech by Andrew Oakland
The Rest Is Jungle & Other Stories by Mario Benedetti, translated from Spanish by Harry Morales
A Life on Paper by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin
A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex, translated from the French by Donald Wilson
A Splendid Conspiracy by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Alyson Waters
The Jokers by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary (writing as Émile Ajar), translated from the French by David Bellos
To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
The Clash of Images by Abdelfattah Kilito, translated from the French by Robyn Creswell
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Cyclops by Ranko Marinković, translated from Croatian by Vlada Stojiljković, ed. by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb, translated from the French by Alison Anderson
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund and the author
A Thousand Peaceful Cities by Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by David Frick
Touch by Adania Shibli, translated from the Arabic by Paula Haydar
The Black Minutes by Martín Solares, translated from the Spanish by Aura Estrada and John Pluecker
On Elegance While Sleeping by Emilio Lascano Tegui, translated from the Spanish by Idra Novey
Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns
Microscripts by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
2010 info from Salonica accessed 1/6/10
2010 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Longlist
Ghosts by César Aira.Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. (Argentina)
The Ninth by Ferenc Barnás.Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry. (Hungary)
Anonymous Celebrity by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão.Translated from the Portuguese by Nelson Vieira. (Brazil)
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker.Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. (Netherlands)
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño.Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. (Chile)
Wonder by Hugo Claus.Translated from the Dutch by Michael Henry Heim. (Belgium)
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada.Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. (Germany)
Op Oloop by Juan Filloy.Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. (Argentina)
Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis.Translated from the Lithuanian by Elizabeth Novickas. (Lithuania)
The Zafarani Files by Gamal al-Ghitani.Translated from the Arabic by Farouk Abdel Wahab. (Egypt)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas.Translated from the German by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen. (Austria)
The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven. -- Winner! Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. (Israel)
The Discoverer by Jan Kjærstad.Translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland. (Norway)
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull. (Russia)
Desert by J. M. G. Le Clézio. Translated from the French by C. Dickson. (France)
There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night by Cao Naiqian.Translated from the Chinese by John Balcom. (China)
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk.Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. (Turkey)
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso.Translated from the Spanish by Alfonso González and Stella T. Clark. (Mexico)
The Mighty Angel by Jerzy Pilch.Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston. (Poland)
Rex by José Manuel Prieto.Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. (Cuba)
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda.Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent. (Spain)
Landscape with Dog and Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos.Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich. (Greece)
Brecht at Night by Mati Unt.Translated from the Estonian by Eric Dickens. (Estonia)
In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi.Translated from the French by David and Nicole Ball. (Djibouti)
The Tanners by Robert Walser.Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. (Austria)
Best Translated Books Longlist 2008
Agualusa, José Eduardo. The Book of Chameleons, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Antunes, António Lobo. What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire? translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Bartis, Attila. Tranquility, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein
Bolaño, Roberto. 2666, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Bolaño, Roberto. Nazi Literature in the Americas, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
Curiol, Céline. Voice Over, translated from the French by Sam Richard
Fabre, Dominique. The Waitress Was New, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Fonseca, Rubem. The Taker and Other Stories translated from the Portuguese by Clifford Landers
Hermans, Willem Frederik. The Darkroom of Damocles, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
Jonke, Gert. Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique, translated from German by Jean Snook
Karinthy, Ferenc. Metropole, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes
Kertesz, Imre. Detective Story, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson
Khoury, Elias. Yalo, translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux
Laxness, Halldór. The Great Weaver from Kashmir, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
Michalopoulou, Amanda. I’d Like, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Monzo, Quim. The Enormity of the Tragedy, translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush
Moya, Horacio Castellanos. Senselessness, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver
Proust, Marcel. The Lemoine Affair, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Saramago, José. Death with Interruptions, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Serge, Victor. Unforgiving Years, translated from the French by Richard Greeman
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe. Camera, translated from the French by Matthew Smith
Yizhar, S. Khirbet Khizeh, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck
Zambra, Alejandro. Bonsai, translated from the Spanish by Carolina De Robertis
Zweig, Stefan. The Post-Office Girl, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
The 2011 BTBA Fiction Longlist (in alphabetical order by author):
The Literary Conference by César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver
The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated from the Czech by Andrew Oakland
The Rest Is Jungle & Other Stories by Mario Benedetti, translated from Spanish by Harry Morales
A Life on Paper by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin
A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex, translated from the French by Donald Wilson
A Splendid Conspiracy by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Alyson Waters
The Jokers by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary (writing as Émile Ajar), translated from the French by David Bellos
To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
The Clash of Images by Abdelfattah Kilito, translated from the French by Robyn Creswell
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Cyclops by Ranko Marinković, translated from Croatian by Vlada Stojiljković, ed. by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb, translated from the French by Alison Anderson
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund and the author
A Thousand Peaceful Cities by Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by David Frick
Touch by Adania Shibli, translated from the Arabic by Paula Haydar
The Black Minutes by Martín Solares, translated from the Spanish by Aura Estrada and John Pluecker
On Elegance While Sleeping by Emilio Lascano Tegui, translated from the Spanish by Idra Novey
Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns
Microscripts by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
2010 info from Salonica accessed 1/6/10
2010 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Longlist
Ghosts by César Aira.Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. (Argentina)
The Ninth by Ferenc Barnás.Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry. (Hungary)
Anonymous Celebrity by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão.Translated from the Portuguese by Nelson Vieira. (Brazil)
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker.Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. (Netherlands)
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño.Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. (Chile)
Wonder by Hugo Claus.Translated from the Dutch by Michael Henry Heim. (Belgium)
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada.Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. (Germany)
Op Oloop by Juan Filloy.Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. (Argentina)
Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis.Translated from the Lithuanian by Elizabeth Novickas. (Lithuania)
The Zafarani Files by Gamal al-Ghitani.Translated from the Arabic by Farouk Abdel Wahab. (Egypt)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas.Translated from the German by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen. (Austria)
The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven. -- Winner! Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. (Israel)
The Discoverer by Jan Kjærstad.Translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland. (Norway)
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull. (Russia)
Desert by J. M. G. Le Clézio. Translated from the French by C. Dickson. (France)
There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night by Cao Naiqian.Translated from the Chinese by John Balcom. (China)
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk.Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. (Turkey)
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso.Translated from the Spanish by Alfonso González and Stella T. Clark. (Mexico)
The Mighty Angel by Jerzy Pilch.Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston. (Poland)
Rex by José Manuel Prieto.Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. (Cuba)
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda.Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent. (Spain)
Landscape with Dog and Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos.Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich. (Greece)
Brecht at Night by Mati Unt.Translated from the Estonian by Eric Dickens. (Estonia)
In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi.Translated from the French by David and Nicole Ball. (Djibouti)
The Tanners by Robert Walser.Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. (Austria)
Best Translated Books Longlist 2008
Agualusa, José Eduardo. The Book of Chameleons, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Antunes, António Lobo. What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire? translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Bartis, Attila. Tranquility, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein
Bolaño, Roberto. 2666, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Bolaño, Roberto. Nazi Literature in the Americas, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
Curiol, Céline. Voice Over, translated from the French by Sam Richard
Fabre, Dominique. The Waitress Was New, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Fonseca, Rubem. The Taker and Other Stories translated from the Portuguese by Clifford Landers
Hermans, Willem Frederik. The Darkroom of Damocles, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
Jonke, Gert. Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique, translated from German by Jean Snook
Karinthy, Ferenc. Metropole, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes
Kertesz, Imre. Detective Story, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson
Khoury, Elias. Yalo, translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux
Laxness, Halldór. The Great Weaver from Kashmir, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
Michalopoulou, Amanda. I’d Like, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Monzo, Quim. The Enormity of the Tragedy, translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush
Moya, Horacio Castellanos. Senselessness, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver
Proust, Marcel. The Lemoine Affair, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Saramago, José. Death with Interruptions, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Serge, Victor. Unforgiving Years, translated from the French by Richard Greeman
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe. Camera, translated from the French by Matthew Smith
Yizhar, S. Khirbet Khizeh, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck
Zambra, Alejandro. Bonsai, translated from the Spanish by Carolina De Robertis
Zweig, Stefan. The Post-Office Girl, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
Books at Berlinale (2009,11)
Information from efm: European Film Market accessed 1/27/11
Books at Berlinale intends to bring the publishing and film worlds closer together during the Berlinale. This year, these activities include the half-day programme "Breakfast & Books" (February 15) as well as a Case Study on a literary adaptation (February 14), both of which will be part of the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Registered participants of the Berlinale Co-Production Market can attend the Case Study on a literary adaptation which will take place on Monday, February 14.
“Breakfast & Books” on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 is open for pre-registered guests only.
Ten selected novels will be presented during this moderated pitching event. After the pitch, during breakfast, producers will be able to talk directly and informally with the rights holders, i.e. international publishers and literary agents representing the selected material.
What’s more is that this year for the first time also individual meetings between the film and the book representatives can be scheduled. Prior to the event, the “Books at Berlinale” catalogue is sent to all producers who register for “Breakfast & Books” so that they can see which novels they are particularly interested in. They can request one-on-one meetings in advance, which the team of the Berlinale Co-Production Market will set up.
The selected books are new releases, partly yet to be published, which guarantee the producers a very exclusive opportunity to secure film rights. During the selection, the novels to be presented at this year's "Breakfast & Books" were thoroughly checked for their screen potential.
The selection 2011 includes a wide variety of subjects and genres featuring something for every producer: a dead rock’n’roller, nine magic pennies, fake fatherhood, first love and beheaded monuments. Besides several European countries, the stories’ locations include South Africa, Argentina, Israel and the United States.
The selected “Books at Berlinale” projects 2011
The Mall by S.L. Grey
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
Heldensommer (Summer of Heroes) by Andi Rogenhagen
De Bewaker (The Guard) by Peter Terrin
Mi nombre es Victoria (My Name Is Victoria) by Victoria Donda
Lo verdadero es un momento de lo falso (The True Is a Moment of the False) by Lucia Etxeberria
Non ci sono pesci rossi nelle pozzanghere (Goldfish Don't Live in Puddles) by Marco Truzzi
Rossmore Avenue by Vanessa Caffin
Nenäpäivä (Red Nose Day) by Mikko Rimminen
Andernorts (Elsewhere) by Doron Rabinovici.
2010
[nothing found]
2009
Effi Briest, adapted from the novel by Theodor Fontane
In the Electric Mist, adapted from the novel by James Lee Burke
The Bone Man, adapted from the novel by Wolf Haas
Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Books at Berlinale intends to bring the publishing and film worlds closer together during the Berlinale. This year, these activities include the half-day programme "Breakfast & Books" (February 15) as well as a Case Study on a literary adaptation (February 14), both of which will be part of the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Registered participants of the Berlinale Co-Production Market can attend the Case Study on a literary adaptation which will take place on Monday, February 14.
“Breakfast & Books” on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 is open for pre-registered guests only.
Ten selected novels will be presented during this moderated pitching event. After the pitch, during breakfast, producers will be able to talk directly and informally with the rights holders, i.e. international publishers and literary agents representing the selected material.
What’s more is that this year for the first time also individual meetings between the film and the book representatives can be scheduled. Prior to the event, the “Books at Berlinale” catalogue is sent to all producers who register for “Breakfast & Books” so that they can see which novels they are particularly interested in. They can request one-on-one meetings in advance, which the team of the Berlinale Co-Production Market will set up.
The selected books are new releases, partly yet to be published, which guarantee the producers a very exclusive opportunity to secure film rights. During the selection, the novels to be presented at this year's "Breakfast & Books" were thoroughly checked for their screen potential.
The selection 2011 includes a wide variety of subjects and genres featuring something for every producer: a dead rock’n’roller, nine magic pennies, fake fatherhood, first love and beheaded monuments. Besides several European countries, the stories’ locations include South Africa, Argentina, Israel and the United States.
The selected “Books at Berlinale” projects 2011
The Mall by S.L. Grey
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
Heldensommer (Summer of Heroes) by Andi Rogenhagen
De Bewaker (The Guard) by Peter Terrin
Mi nombre es Victoria (My Name Is Victoria) by Victoria Donda
Lo verdadero es un momento de lo falso (The True Is a Moment of the False) by Lucia Etxeberria
Non ci sono pesci rossi nelle pozzanghere (Goldfish Don't Live in Puddles) by Marco Truzzi
Rossmore Avenue by Vanessa Caffin
Nenäpäivä (Red Nose Day) by Mikko Rimminen
Andernorts (Elsewhere) by Doron Rabinovici.
2010
[nothing found]
2009
Effi Briest, adapted from the novel by Theodor Fontane
In the Electric Mist, adapted from the novel by James Lee Burke
The Bone Man, adapted from the novel by Wolf Haas
Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Sydney Taylor Book Award (1968-2011)
from Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) accessed 11/13/09
The purpose of the Sydney Taylor Book Award is to encourage the publication of outstanding books of Jewish content for children and teens, books that exemplify the highest literary standards while authentically portraying the Jewish experience. It is hoped that official recognition of such books will inspire authors, encourage publishers, inform parents and teachers, and intrigue young readers. The committee also hopes that by educating readers about the Jewish experience, they can engender pride in Jewish readers while building bridges to readers of other backgrounds.
History
The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) has been recognizing quality Jewish literature for many years. In 1968, AJL established a children's book award called the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award. The first winner of this award was author Esther Hautzig for her book The Endless Steppe. This award was renamed "the Sydney Taylor Book Award" in 1978 after the death of Sydney Taylor, author of the All-of-a-Kind Family series.
2011
Younger Readers: Gathering Sparks by Howard Schwartz, illustrated by Kristina Swarner
Older Readers: Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch, author and illustrator
Teen Readers: The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
2010
New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story by April Halprin Waylnd; illustrated by Stephane Jorisch [Younger Readers]
The Importance of Wings by Robin Friedman [Older Readers]
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle [Teen Readers]
2009
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson; illustrated by Raul Colon [Younger Readers]
Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse [Older Readers]
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti [Teen Readers]
2008
The Bedtime Sh'ma: A Good Night Book by Sarah Gershman; illustrated by Kristina Swarner [Younger Readers]
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman [Older Readers]
Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin [Teen Readers]
2007
Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by Greg Harlin [Younger Readers]
Julia's Kitchen by Brenda Ferber [Older Readers]
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [Teen Readers]
2006
Sholom's Treasure by Erica Silverman, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein [Younger Readers]
Confessions of a Closet Catholic by Sarah Darer Littman [Older Readers]
2005 - Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. Award-giving did NOT skip a year.
2004 - no winner for Younger Readers
Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass [Older Readers]
2003 Bagels from Benny by Aubrey Davis, illustrated by Dusan Petricic [Younger Readers]
Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? by Nancy Patz [Older Readers]
2002
Chicken Soup by Heart by Esther Hershenhorn, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger [Younger Readers]
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine [Older Readers]
2001
Rivka's First Thanksgiving by Elsa Okon Rael, illustrated by Maryann Kovalski [Younger Readers]
Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind by Catherine Reef [Older Readers]
2000 Gershon's Monster by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Jon J. Muth [Younger Readers]
The Key Is Lost by Ida Vos [Older Readers]
1999
The Peddler's Gift by Maxine Rose Schur, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root [Younger Readers]
Speed of Light by Sybil Rosen [Older Readers]
1998
Nine Spoons by Marci Stillerman, illustrated by Pesach Gerber [Younger Readers]
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli [Older Readers]
1997
When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street by Elsa Okon Rael, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman [Younger Readers]
The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah by Nina Jaffe, illustrated by Elivia Savadier [Older Readers]
1996
Shalom Haver/Goodbye Friend by Barbara Sofer [Younger Readers]
When I Left My Village by Maxine Rose Schur, illustrated by Brian Pinkney [Older Readers]
1995
Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt [Younger Readers]
Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon by Ida Vos [Older Readers]
1994
The Always Prayer Shawl by Sheldon Oberman, illustrated by Ted Lewin [Younger Readers]
The Shadow Children by Steven Schnur, illustrated by Herbert Tauss [Older Readers]
1993
The Uninvited Guest by Nina Jaffe [Younger Readers]
Sworn Enemies by Carol Matas [Older Readers]
1992
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman [Younger Readers]
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse [Older Readers]
1991
Cakes and Miracles by Barbara Diamond Goldin, illustrated by Erika Weihs [Younger Readers]
Daddy's Chair by Sandy Lanton, illustrated by Shelly O. Haas [Younger Readers]
The Diamond Tree by Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz [Older Readers]
1990
My Grandmother's Stories by Adele Geras, illustraed by Jael Jordan [Older Readers]
1989
Berchick by Esther Silverstein Blanc, illustrated by Tennessee Dixon [Younger Readers]
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry [Older Readers]
1988
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco [Younger Readers]
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen [Older Readers]
1987
The Numbers on My Grandfather's Arm by David Adler, photos by Rose Eichenbaum [Younger Readers]
The Return by Sonia Levitin [Older Readers]
1986
Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath by Marilyn Hirsh, illustrated by Devis Grebu [Younger Readers]
Beyond the High White Wall by Nancy Pitt [Older Readers]
1985
Brothers by Florence B. Freedman, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker [Younger Readers]
Ike and Mama and the Seven Surprises by Carol Snyder [Older Readers]
1984
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks by Amy Schwartz [Younger Readers]
The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev [Older Readers]
1983
Bubby, Me and Memories by Barbara Pomerantz, photos by Leon Lurie [Younger Readers]
In the Mouth of the Wolf by Rose Zar [Older Readers]
1982
The Castle on Hester Street by Linda Heller [Younger Readers]
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs [Older Readers]
1981
Yussel's Prayer by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Michael J. Deraney [Younger Readers]
The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky [Older Readers]
1980
A Russian Farewell by Leonard Everett Fisher
1979
Ike and Mama and the Block Weddings by Carol Snyder
1978
The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel
1977
Exit from Home by Anita Heyman
1976
Never to Forget by Milton Meltzer
1975
Waiting for Mama by Marietta Miskin
1974 - no award
1973
Uncle Misha's Partisans by Yuri Suhl
1972 - author Molly Cone for general contributions to Jewish children's literature
1971 - author Isaac Bashevis Singer for general contributions to Jewish children's literature
1970
The Year by Suzanne Lange
1969
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
1968
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award Winners:
2004 - Eric A. Kimmel
2003 - Judye Groner & Madeleine Wikler, founders of Kar-Ben Copies
1997 - Barbara Diamond Goldin
1989 - Yaffa Ganz
1984 - Miriam Chaikin
1981 - Barbara Cohen
1980 - Sadie Rose Weilerstein
1979 - Marilyn Hirsh
1978 - Sydney Taylor
The purpose of the Sydney Taylor Book Award is to encourage the publication of outstanding books of Jewish content for children and teens, books that exemplify the highest literary standards while authentically portraying the Jewish experience. It is hoped that official recognition of such books will inspire authors, encourage publishers, inform parents and teachers, and intrigue young readers. The committee also hopes that by educating readers about the Jewish experience, they can engender pride in Jewish readers while building bridges to readers of other backgrounds.
History
The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) has been recognizing quality Jewish literature for many years. In 1968, AJL established a children's book award called the Shirley Kravitz Children's Book Award. The first winner of this award was author Esther Hautzig for her book The Endless Steppe. This award was renamed "the Sydney Taylor Book Award" in 1978 after the death of Sydney Taylor, author of the All-of-a-Kind Family series.
2011
Younger Readers: Gathering Sparks by Howard Schwartz, illustrated by Kristina Swarner
Older Readers: Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch, author and illustrator
Teen Readers: The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
2010
New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story by April Halprin Waylnd; illustrated by Stephane Jorisch [Younger Readers]
The Importance of Wings by Robin Friedman [Older Readers]
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle [Teen Readers]
2009
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson; illustrated by Raul Colon [Younger Readers]
Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse [Older Readers]
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti [Teen Readers]
2008
The Bedtime Sh'ma: A Good Night Book by Sarah Gershman; illustrated by Kristina Swarner [Younger Readers]
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman [Older Readers]
Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin [Teen Readers]
2007
Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by Greg Harlin [Younger Readers]
Julia's Kitchen by Brenda Ferber [Older Readers]
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [Teen Readers]
2006
Sholom's Treasure by Erica Silverman, illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein [Younger Readers]
Confessions of a Closet Catholic by Sarah Darer Littman [Older Readers]
2005 - Dating system changed this year to reflect year in which award is announced instead of year of publication. Award-giving did NOT skip a year.
2004 - no winner for Younger Readers
Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass [Older Readers]
2003 Bagels from Benny by Aubrey Davis, illustrated by Dusan Petricic [Younger Readers]
Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? by Nancy Patz [Older Readers]
2002
Chicken Soup by Heart by Esther Hershenhorn, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger [Younger Readers]
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine [Older Readers]
2001
Rivka's First Thanksgiving by Elsa Okon Rael, illustrated by Maryann Kovalski [Younger Readers]
Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind by Catherine Reef [Older Readers]
2000 Gershon's Monster by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Jon J. Muth [Younger Readers]
The Key Is Lost by Ida Vos [Older Readers]
1999
The Peddler's Gift by Maxine Rose Schur, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root [Younger Readers]
Speed of Light by Sybil Rosen [Older Readers]
1998
Nine Spoons by Marci Stillerman, illustrated by Pesach Gerber [Younger Readers]
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli [Older Readers]
1997
When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street by Elsa Okon Rael, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman [Younger Readers]
The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah by Nina Jaffe, illustrated by Elivia Savadier [Older Readers]
1996
Shalom Haver/Goodbye Friend by Barbara Sofer [Younger Readers]
When I Left My Village by Maxine Rose Schur, illustrated by Brian Pinkney [Older Readers]
1995
Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt [Younger Readers]
Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon by Ida Vos [Older Readers]
1994
The Always Prayer Shawl by Sheldon Oberman, illustrated by Ted Lewin [Younger Readers]
The Shadow Children by Steven Schnur, illustrated by Herbert Tauss [Older Readers]
1993
The Uninvited Guest by Nina Jaffe [Younger Readers]
Sworn Enemies by Carol Matas [Older Readers]
1992
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman [Younger Readers]
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse [Older Readers]
1991
Cakes and Miracles by Barbara Diamond Goldin, illustrated by Erika Weihs [Younger Readers]
Daddy's Chair by Sandy Lanton, illustrated by Shelly O. Haas [Younger Readers]
The Diamond Tree by Howard Schwartz & Barbara Rush, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz [Older Readers]
1990
My Grandmother's Stories by Adele Geras, illustraed by Jael Jordan [Older Readers]
1989
Berchick by Esther Silverstein Blanc, illustrated by Tennessee Dixon [Younger Readers]
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry [Older Readers]
1988
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco [Younger Readers]
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen [Older Readers]
1987
The Numbers on My Grandfather's Arm by David Adler, photos by Rose Eichenbaum [Younger Readers]
The Return by Sonia Levitin [Older Readers]
1986
Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath by Marilyn Hirsh, illustrated by Devis Grebu [Younger Readers]
Beyond the High White Wall by Nancy Pitt [Older Readers]
1985
Brothers by Florence B. Freedman, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker [Younger Readers]
Ike and Mama and the Seven Surprises by Carol Snyder [Older Readers]
1984
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks by Amy Schwartz [Younger Readers]
The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev [Older Readers]
1983
Bubby, Me and Memories by Barbara Pomerantz, photos by Leon Lurie [Younger Readers]
In the Mouth of the Wolf by Rose Zar [Older Readers]
1982
The Castle on Hester Street by Linda Heller [Younger Readers]
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs [Older Readers]
1981
Yussel's Prayer by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Michael J. Deraney [Younger Readers]
The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky [Older Readers]
1980
A Russian Farewell by Leonard Everett Fisher
1979
Ike and Mama and the Block Weddings by Carol Snyder
1978
The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel
1977
Exit from Home by Anita Heyman
1976
Never to Forget by Milton Meltzer
1975
Waiting for Mama by Marietta Miskin
1974 - no award
1973
Uncle Misha's Partisans by Yuri Suhl
1972 - author Molly Cone for general contributions to Jewish children's literature
1971 - author Isaac Bashevis Singer for general contributions to Jewish children's literature
1970
The Year by Suzanne Lange
1969
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
1968
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award Winners:
2004 - Eric A. Kimmel
2003 - Judye Groner & Madeleine Wikler, founders of Kar-Ben Copies
1997 - Barbara Diamond Goldin
1989 - Yaffa Ganz
1984 - Miriam Chaikin
1981 - Barbara Cohen
1980 - Sadie Rose Weilerstein
1979 - Marilyn Hirsh
1978 - Sydney Taylor
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Finlandia Prize Nominees (2009-10)
From Finland Literature Exchange "FILI" newsletter accessed 11/21/09. FILI: A World of Books. FILI is an expert and export organisation, which supports the translation, printing and publication of literature and promotes the awareness of Finnish literature abroad.
The Finnish Book Foundation has announced the shortlist of novels, children’s books and non-fiction books that are nominated for this year’s Finlandia Prize, Finland’s most prestigious literary award. The award sum is 30,000 euros.
Finlandia Prize nominees 2010
Joel Haahtela: Katoamispiste (“Vanishing point”, Otava)
Markus Nummi: Karkkipäivä (“Candy day”, Otava)
Riikka Pulkkinen: Totta (“True”, Otava)
Mikko Rimminen: Nenäpäivä (“Nose day”, Teos)
Alexandra Salmela: 27 Eli kuolema tekee taiteilijan (“27, or death makes an artist”, Teos)
Erik Wahlström: Flugtämjaren (“The fly tamer”, Schildts)
The 2009 Finlandia Prize Nominees
Turkka Hautala: Salo (Gummerus)
Kari Hotakainen: Ihmisen osa (The Human Lot, Siltala)
Antti Hyry: Uuni (The Oven, Otava)
Marko Kilpi: Kadotetut (The Lost Ones, Gummerus)
Merete Mazzarella: Ingen saknad, ingen sorg (No regret, no sorrow, Söderströms / Atlantis)
Tommi Melender: Ranskalainen ystävä (The French Friend, WSOY)
The 2009 Finlandia Junior Nominees
Siiri Enoranta: Omenmean vallanhaltija (The Ruler of Omenmea, Robustos)
Antti Halme: Metalliveljet (Metal Brothers, Otava)
Juba: Minerva, Jääkarhun sydän (Minerva: The Polar Bear’s Heart, Otava)
Mari Kujanpää: Minä ja Muro (Muro and Me, Illustrated by Aino-Maija Metsola, Otava)
Paula Noronen: Emilian päiväkirja. Supermarsu pelastaa silakat. (Emilia’s Diary: Superguinea Rescues the Herring, Illustrated by Pauliina Mäkelä, Gummerus)
Maria Turtschaninoff: Arra. Legender från Lavora (Arra: Legends of Lavora, Söderströms)
The 2009 Tieto-Finlandia Prize for Non-Fiction Nominees
Hollmén, Roope: Juuret Karjalassa (Roots in Karelia, Facto)
Laurell Seppo (primary author): Valo merellä. Suomen majakat 1753-1906 (Light on the Sea: Finnish Lighthouses 1753-1906, with photography by Petri Porkola, Swedish translation by Pär-Henrik Sjöström, John Nurmisen Säätiö)
Maasola, Juha: Kirves (The Axe, Maahenki)
Parpola, Antti - Åberg,Veijo: Metsävaltio. Metsähallitus ja Suomi 1859-2009 (A Forest Nation: The Finnish Forest and Park Service, 1859-2009, Edita)
Tandefelt, Henrika: Borgå 1809. Ceremoni och fest. SLS.
Porvoo 1809. Juhlamenoja ja tanssiaisia (Porvoo 1809: Festivals and Balls, SKS, Finnish translation by Jussi T. Lappalainen)
Ylikangas, Mikko: Unileipää, kuolonvettä, spiidiä. Huumeet Suomessa 1800-1950 (Sleepbread, Deathwater, Speed: Drugs in Finland, 1800-1950, Atena)
The Finnish Book Foundation has announced the shortlist of novels, children’s books and non-fiction books that are nominated for this year’s Finlandia Prize, Finland’s most prestigious literary award. The award sum is 30,000 euros.
Finlandia Prize nominees 2010
Joel Haahtela: Katoamispiste (“Vanishing point”, Otava)
Markus Nummi: Karkkipäivä (“Candy day”, Otava)
Riikka Pulkkinen: Totta (“True”, Otava)
Mikko Rimminen: Nenäpäivä (“Nose day”, Teos)
Alexandra Salmela: 27 Eli kuolema tekee taiteilijan (“27, or death makes an artist”, Teos)
Erik Wahlström: Flugtämjaren (“The fly tamer”, Schildts)
The 2009 Finlandia Prize Nominees
Turkka Hautala: Salo (Gummerus)
Kari Hotakainen: Ihmisen osa (The Human Lot, Siltala)
Antti Hyry: Uuni (The Oven, Otava)
Marko Kilpi: Kadotetut (The Lost Ones, Gummerus)
Merete Mazzarella: Ingen saknad, ingen sorg (No regret, no sorrow, Söderströms / Atlantis)
Tommi Melender: Ranskalainen ystävä (The French Friend, WSOY)
The 2009 Finlandia Junior Nominees
Siiri Enoranta: Omenmean vallanhaltija (The Ruler of Omenmea, Robustos)
Antti Halme: Metalliveljet (Metal Brothers, Otava)
Juba: Minerva, Jääkarhun sydän (Minerva: The Polar Bear’s Heart, Otava)
Mari Kujanpää: Minä ja Muro (Muro and Me, Illustrated by Aino-Maija Metsola, Otava)
Paula Noronen: Emilian päiväkirja. Supermarsu pelastaa silakat. (Emilia’s Diary: Superguinea Rescues the Herring, Illustrated by Pauliina Mäkelä, Gummerus)
Maria Turtschaninoff: Arra. Legender från Lavora (Arra: Legends of Lavora, Söderströms)
The 2009 Tieto-Finlandia Prize for Non-Fiction Nominees
Hollmén, Roope: Juuret Karjalassa (Roots in Karelia, Facto)
Laurell Seppo (primary author): Valo merellä. Suomen majakat 1753-1906 (Light on the Sea: Finnish Lighthouses 1753-1906, with photography by Petri Porkola, Swedish translation by Pär-Henrik Sjöström, John Nurmisen Säätiö)
Maasola, Juha: Kirves (The Axe, Maahenki)
Parpola, Antti - Åberg,Veijo: Metsävaltio. Metsähallitus ja Suomi 1859-2009 (A Forest Nation: The Finnish Forest and Park Service, 1859-2009, Edita)
Tandefelt, Henrika: Borgå 1809. Ceremoni och fest. SLS.
Porvoo 1809. Juhlamenoja ja tanssiaisia (Porvoo 1809: Festivals and Balls, SKS, Finnish translation by Jussi T. Lappalainen)
Ylikangas, Mikko: Unileipää, kuolonvettä, spiidiä. Huumeet Suomessa 1800-1950 (Sleepbread, Deathwater, Speed: Drugs in Finland, 1800-1950, Atena)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Cervantes Prize (1976-2010)
Information form Wikipedia accessed 12/9/11
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio Miguel de Cervantes), established in 1976, is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation. Unlike the Booker Prize, it is awarded only once in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work and is therefore regarded as a sort of Spanish-language Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
The candidates are proposed by the Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros.
1976 Jorge Guillén Spain
1977 Alejo Carpentier Cuba
1978 Dámaso Alonso Spain
1979 Jorge Luis Borges Argentina
1979 Gerardo Diego Spain
1980 Juan Carlos Onetti Uruguay
1981 Octavio Paz Mexico
1982 Luis Rosales Spain
1983 Rafael Alberti Spain
1984 Ernesto Sabato Argentina
1985 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Spain
1986 Antonio Buero Vallejo Spain
1987 Carlos Fuentes Mexico
1988 María Zambrano Spain
1989 Augusto Roa Bastos Paraguay
1990 Adolfo Bioy Casares Argentina
1991 Francisco Ayala Spain
1992 Dulce María Loynaz Cuba
1993 Miguel Delibes Spain
1994 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru
1995 Camilo José Cela Spain
1996 José García Nieto Spain
1997 Guillermo Cabrera Infante Cuba
1998 José Hierro Spain
1999 Jorge Edwards Chile
2000 Francisco Umbral Spain
2001 Álvaro Mutis Colombia
2002 José Jiménez Lozano Spain
2003 Gonzalo Rojas Chile
2004 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Spain
2005 Sergio Pitol Mexico
2006 Antonio Gamoneda Spain
2007 Juan Gelman Argentina
2008 Juan Marsé Spain
2009 José Emilio Pacheco Mexico
2010 Ana María Matute Spain
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish: Premio Miguel de Cervantes), established in 1976, is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from any Spanish-speaking nation. Unlike the Booker Prize, it is awarded only once in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work and is therefore regarded as a sort of Spanish-language Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
The candidates are proposed by the Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros.
1976 Jorge Guillén Spain
1977 Alejo Carpentier Cuba
1978 Dámaso Alonso Spain
1979 Jorge Luis Borges Argentina
1979 Gerardo Diego Spain
1980 Juan Carlos Onetti Uruguay
1981 Octavio Paz Mexico
1982 Luis Rosales Spain
1983 Rafael Alberti Spain
1984 Ernesto Sabato Argentina
1985 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Spain
1986 Antonio Buero Vallejo Spain
1987 Carlos Fuentes Mexico
1988 María Zambrano Spain
1989 Augusto Roa Bastos Paraguay
1990 Adolfo Bioy Casares Argentina
1991 Francisco Ayala Spain
1992 Dulce María Loynaz Cuba
1993 Miguel Delibes Spain
1994 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru
1995 Camilo José Cela Spain
1996 José García Nieto Spain
1997 Guillermo Cabrera Infante Cuba
1998 José Hierro Spain
1999 Jorge Edwards Chile
2000 Francisco Umbral Spain
2001 Álvaro Mutis Colombia
2002 José Jiménez Lozano Spain
2003 Gonzalo Rojas Chile
2004 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Spain
2005 Sergio Pitol Mexico
2006 Antonio Gamoneda Spain
2007 Juan Gelman Argentina
2008 Juan Marsé Spain
2009 José Emilio Pacheco Mexico
2010 Ana María Matute Spain
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (1996-2010)
From IMPAC Dublin Literary Award accessed 11/4/09, 11/16/10
2011 Longlist:
Milena Agus The House in Via Manno translated by Brigid Maher
Niccolo Ammaniti As God Commands translated by Jonathan Hunt
Kalinda Ashton The Danger Game
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood
Paul Auster Invisible
Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl
Vladislav Bajac Hamam Balkania translated by Randall A. Major
Tiffany Baker The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Nicholson Baker The Anthologist
Ferenc Barnas The Ninth translated by Paul Olchváry
Mark Behr Kings of the Water
Gioconda Belli Infinity in the Palm of her Hand translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Maissa Bey Above All, Don't Look Back translated by Senja L. Djelouah
Mikkel Birkegaard The Library of Shadows translated by Tiina Nunnally
Marie-Claire Blais Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom translated by Nigel Spencer
Giles Blunt Breaking Lorca
William Boyd Ordinary Thunderstorms
T.C. Boyle The Women
Anita Brookner Strangers
Dan Brown The Lost Symbol
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden No Place Strange
A.S.Byatt The Children's Book
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America
Massimo Carlotto & Marco Videtta Poisonville translated by Antony Shugaar
Nick Cave The Death of Bunny Munro
Dan Chaon Await Your Reply
Tracy Chevalier Remarkable Creatures
Hélène Cixous Hyperdream translated by Beverley Bie Brahic
Philippe Claudel
Brodeck's Report translated by John Cullen
Ann Cleeves Red Bones
J.M. Coetzee Summertime
Michael Crummey Galore
Ron Currie Jr. Everything Matters!
Maurice G. Dantec
Grand Junction translated by Tina A. Kover
Rana Dasgupta Solo
Pete Dexter Spooner
E.L. Doctorow Homer and Langley
Glen Duncan A Day and a Night and a Day
Jean Echenoz Running translated by Linda Coverdale
Kim Echlin The Disappeared
Dave Eggers The Wild Things
Ilsa Evans The Family Tree
Roopa Farooki The Way Things Look to Me
Fiona Farrell Limestone
Sebastian Faulks A Week in December
Laurence Fearnley Mother's Day
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze
Julia Franck The Blind Side of the Heart translated by Anthea Bell
Patrick Gale The Whole Day Through
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Alone in the Crowd translated by Benjamin Moser
Jane Gardam The Man in the Wooden Hat
Maurice Gee Access Road
Paolo Giordano The Solitude of Prime Numbers translated by Shaun Whiteside
Glen David Gold Sunnyside
Hiromi Goto Half World
Jessica Grant Come, Thou Tortoise
Wolf Haas The Weather Fifteen Years Ago translated by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen
Marion Halligan Valley of Grace
Paul Harding Tinkers
Marié Heese The Double Crown; Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh
Nicole Helget The Turtle Catcher
Nick Hornby Juliet, Naked
Michelle Huneven Blame
Ameena Hussein The Moon in the Water
M.J. Hyland This is How
John Irving Last Night in Twisted River
Tahar Ben Jelloun Leaving Tangier translated by Linda Coverdale
Paulette Jiles The Color of Lightning
Laleh Khadivi The Age of Orphans
Khoo Kheng-Hor Sifu: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War
Rachael King Magpie Hall
Sophie Kinsella Twenties Girl
Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna
Ayse Kulin Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul tattranslated by Kenneth J. Dakan
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
Norman Lebrecht The Game of Opposites
Siegfried Lenz A Minute's Silence translated by Anthea Bell
Jonathan Lethem Chronic City
Yiyun Li The Vagrants
Jim Lynch Border Songs
Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean
Alain Mabanckou Broken Glass translated by Helen Stevenson
Linden MacIntyre The Bishop's Man
David Malouf Ransom
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Javier Marías Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell translated by Margaret Jull Costs
Simon Mawer The Glass Room
Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
Liam McIlvanney All the Colours of the Town
Zakes Mda Black Diamond
Patricia Melo Lost World translated by Clifford Landers
Philipp Meyer American Rust
Thando Mgqolozana A Man Who is Not a Man
Anne Michaels The Winter Vault
China Miéville The City And the City
Alex Miller Lovesong
Wu Ming Manituana translated by Shaun Whiteside
Shandi Mitchell Under this Unbroken Sky
Lisa Moore February
Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs
C.E. Morgan All the Living
Marcel Moring In a Dark Wood
Kate Mosse The Winter Ghosts
Peter Murphy John the Revelator
H.M. Naqvi Home Boy
David Nicholls One Day
Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry
Elizabeth Nunez Anna In-Between
Joyce Carol Oates Little Bird of Heaven
Vida Ognjenovic Adulterers translated by Jelena Bankovic / Nicholas Moravcevich
Kristina Olsson The China Garden
Amos Oz Rhyming Life and Death translated by Nicholas De Lange
Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence translated by Maureen Freely
Jacques Pauw Little Ice Cream Boy
Eva Petric They All Ate Sushi
Caryl Phillips In the Falling Snow
Jayne Anne Phillips Lark & Termite
Claudia Pineiro Thursday Night Widows translated by Miranda France
Kate Pullinger The Mistress of Nothing
Anthony Quinn The Rescue Man
Kim Stanley Robinson Galileo's Dream
Santiago Roncaglio Red April translated by Edith Grossman
Jane Rusbridge The Devil's Music
Suhayl Saadi Joseph's Box
Maryam Sachs Without Saying Goodbye translated by Sara Sugihara
Gill Schierhout The Shape of Him
Raphael Selbourne Beauty
Erick Setiawan Of Bees and Mist
Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows
Laurie Sheck A Monster's Notes
Daniel Silva The Defector
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones
Colleen Smith-Dennis Inner-City Girl
Kathryn Stockett The Help
Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat
Bahaa Taher Sunset Oasis translated by Humphrey T. Davies
Boston Teran Giv: The Story of a Dog and America
Colm Toibín Brooklyn
Jean-Philippe Toussaint Running Away translated by Matthew B. Smith
William Trevor Love and Summer
Thomas Trofimuk Waiting for Columbus
Dubravka Ugresic Baba Yaga Laid an Egg translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac et al
Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters' Street translated by H. Van Riemsdijk
Srdjan Valjarevic Lake Como translated by Allice Copple Tosic
Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone
Esther Verhoef Close-Up translated by Paul Vincent
Dimitri Verhulst Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill translated by David Colmer
Pinki Virani Deaf Heaven
Jorge Volpi Season of Ash translated by Alfred J. MacAdam
Abdourahman Waberi In the United States of Africa translated by David and Nicole Ball
Kate Walbert A Short History of Women
Jeannette Walls Half- Broke Horses
Pieter Waterdrinker The German Wedding translated by Brian Doyle
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
Colson Whitehead Sag Harbor
Tommy Wieringa Joe Speedboat translated by Sam Garrett
Manuka Wijesinghe Theravada Man
Damien Wilkins Somebody Loves Us All
Alison Wong As the Earth Turns Silver
Evie Wyld After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice
Michael Zadoorian The Leisure Seeker
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game translated by Lucia Graves
2010 Award
Monday 2nd November 2009:
Novels by two Irish writers; The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, winner of the 2009 Costa Prize and Netherland by Joseph O’Neill, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker prize have been nominated for the prestigious 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Complete 2010 shortlist:
The shortlist for this year's €100,000 (US$135,483) IMPAC Dublin Literary Award includes
2009 Award
Cllr. Emer Costello, Lord Mayor of Dublin announced today that 156 titles have been nominated for the €100,000 Award. It is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English and is a Dublin City Council initiative, in partnership with IMPAC. The nominations come from 163 libraries in 123 cities and 43 countries worldwide.
Three debut novelists--Junot Díaz, Michael Thomas and Travis Holland--are among the eight finalists for the €100,000 (US$134,965) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest English-language book prize, the Guardian reported. The judges selected the shortlist from a longlist of 147 titles, which had been nominated by libraries around the world. The winner will be announced June 11.
IMPAC Dublin prize shortlist
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Ravel: A Novel by Jean Echenoz
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Man Gone Down: A Novel by Michael Thomas -- Winner!
Previous winners:
2008
DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage
2007
2006
The Master by Colm Toibin
2005
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2004
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
(translated from the French by Linda Coverdale)
2003
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
(translated from the Turkish by Erdag M. Göknar)
2002
Atomised(also published as The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
(translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
2001
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (Canadian)
2000
Wide Open by Nicola Barker
1999
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller (English)
1998
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
(translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)
1997
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
(translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
1996
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Australian)
2011 Longlist:
Milena Agus The House in Via Manno translated by Brigid Maher
Niccolo Ammaniti As God Commands translated by Jonathan Hunt
Kalinda Ashton The Danger Game
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood
Paul Auster Invisible
Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl
Vladislav Bajac Hamam Balkania translated by Randall A. Major
Tiffany Baker The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Nicholson Baker The Anthologist
Ferenc Barnas The Ninth translated by Paul Olchváry
Mark Behr Kings of the Water
Gioconda Belli Infinity in the Palm of her Hand translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Maissa Bey Above All, Don't Look Back translated by Senja L. Djelouah
Mikkel Birkegaard The Library of Shadows translated by Tiina Nunnally
Marie-Claire Blais Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom translated by Nigel Spencer
Giles Blunt Breaking Lorca
William Boyd Ordinary Thunderstorms
T.C. Boyle The Women
Anita Brookner Strangers
Dan Brown The Lost Symbol
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden No Place Strange
A.S.Byatt The Children's Book
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America
Massimo Carlotto & Marco Videtta Poisonville translated by Antony Shugaar
Nick Cave The Death of Bunny Munro
Dan Chaon Await Your Reply
Tracy Chevalier Remarkable Creatures
Hélène Cixous Hyperdream translated by Beverley Bie Brahic
Philippe Claudel
Brodeck's Report translated by John Cullen
Ann Cleeves Red Bones
J.M. Coetzee Summertime
Michael Crummey Galore
Ron Currie Jr. Everything Matters!
Maurice G. Dantec
Grand Junction translated by Tina A. Kover
Rana Dasgupta Solo
Pete Dexter Spooner
E.L. Doctorow Homer and Langley
Glen Duncan A Day and a Night and a Day
Jean Echenoz Running translated by Linda Coverdale
Kim Echlin The Disappeared
Dave Eggers The Wild Things
Ilsa Evans The Family Tree
Roopa Farooki The Way Things Look to Me
Fiona Farrell Limestone
Sebastian Faulks A Week in December
Laurence Fearnley Mother's Day
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze
Julia Franck The Blind Side of the Heart translated by Anthea Bell
Patrick Gale The Whole Day Through
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Alone in the Crowd translated by Benjamin Moser
Jane Gardam The Man in the Wooden Hat
Maurice Gee Access Road
Paolo Giordano The Solitude of Prime Numbers translated by Shaun Whiteside
Glen David Gold Sunnyside
Hiromi Goto Half World
Jessica Grant Come, Thou Tortoise
Wolf Haas The Weather Fifteen Years Ago translated by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen
Marion Halligan Valley of Grace
Paul Harding Tinkers
Marié Heese The Double Crown; Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh
Nicole Helget The Turtle Catcher
Nick Hornby Juliet, Naked
Michelle Huneven Blame
Ameena Hussein The Moon in the Water
M.J. Hyland This is How
John Irving Last Night in Twisted River
Tahar Ben Jelloun Leaving Tangier translated by Linda Coverdale
Paulette Jiles The Color of Lightning
Laleh Khadivi The Age of Orphans
Khoo Kheng-Hor Sifu: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War
Rachael King Magpie Hall
Sophie Kinsella Twenties Girl
Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna
Ayse Kulin Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul tattranslated by Kenneth J. Dakan
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
Norman Lebrecht The Game of Opposites
Siegfried Lenz A Minute's Silence translated by Anthea Bell
Jonathan Lethem Chronic City
Yiyun Li The Vagrants
Jim Lynch Border Songs
Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean
Alain Mabanckou Broken Glass translated by Helen Stevenson
Linden MacIntyre The Bishop's Man
David Malouf Ransom
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Javier Marías Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell translated by Margaret Jull Costs
Simon Mawer The Glass Room
Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
Liam McIlvanney All the Colours of the Town
Zakes Mda Black Diamond
Patricia Melo Lost World translated by Clifford Landers
Philipp Meyer American Rust
Thando Mgqolozana A Man Who is Not a Man
Anne Michaels The Winter Vault
China Miéville The City And the City
Alex Miller Lovesong
Wu Ming Manituana translated by Shaun Whiteside
Shandi Mitchell Under this Unbroken Sky
Lisa Moore February
Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs
C.E. Morgan All the Living
Marcel Moring In a Dark Wood
Kate Mosse The Winter Ghosts
Peter Murphy John the Revelator
H.M. Naqvi Home Boy
David Nicholls One Day
Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry
Elizabeth Nunez Anna In-Between
Joyce Carol Oates Little Bird of Heaven
Vida Ognjenovic Adulterers translated by Jelena Bankovic / Nicholas Moravcevich
Kristina Olsson The China Garden
Amos Oz Rhyming Life and Death translated by Nicholas De Lange
Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence translated by Maureen Freely
Jacques Pauw Little Ice Cream Boy
Eva Petric They All Ate Sushi
Caryl Phillips In the Falling Snow
Jayne Anne Phillips Lark & Termite
Claudia Pineiro Thursday Night Widows translated by Miranda France
Kate Pullinger The Mistress of Nothing
Anthony Quinn The Rescue Man
Kim Stanley Robinson Galileo's Dream
Santiago Roncaglio Red April translated by Edith Grossman
Jane Rusbridge The Devil's Music
Suhayl Saadi Joseph's Box
Maryam Sachs Without Saying Goodbye translated by Sara Sugihara
Gill Schierhout The Shape of Him
Raphael Selbourne Beauty
Erick Setiawan Of Bees and Mist
Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows
Laurie Sheck A Monster's Notes
Daniel Silva The Defector
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones
Colleen Smith-Dennis Inner-City Girl
Kathryn Stockett The Help
Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat
Bahaa Taher Sunset Oasis translated by Humphrey T. Davies
Boston Teran Giv: The Story of a Dog and America
Colm Toibín Brooklyn
Jean-Philippe Toussaint Running Away translated by Matthew B. Smith
William Trevor Love and Summer
Thomas Trofimuk Waiting for Columbus
Dubravka Ugresic Baba Yaga Laid an Egg translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac et al
Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters' Street translated by H. Van Riemsdijk
Srdjan Valjarevic Lake Como translated by Allice Copple Tosic
Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone
Esther Verhoef Close-Up translated by Paul Vincent
Dimitri Verhulst Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill translated by David Colmer
Pinki Virani Deaf Heaven
Jorge Volpi Season of Ash translated by Alfred J. MacAdam
Abdourahman Waberi In the United States of Africa translated by David and Nicole Ball
Kate Walbert A Short History of Women
Jeannette Walls Half- Broke Horses
Pieter Waterdrinker The German Wedding translated by Brian Doyle
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
Colson Whitehead Sag Harbor
Tommy Wieringa Joe Speedboat translated by Sam Garrett
Manuka Wijesinghe Theravada Man
Damien Wilkins Somebody Loves Us All
Alison Wong As the Earth Turns Silver
Evie Wyld After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice
Michael Zadoorian The Leisure Seeker
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game translated by Lucia Graves
2010 Award
Monday 2nd November 2009:
Novels by two Irish writers; The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, winner of the 2009 Costa Prize and Netherland by Joseph O’Neill, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker prize have been nominated for the prestigious 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Complete 2010 shortlist:
The shortlist for this year's €100,000 (US$135,483) IMPAC Dublin Literary Award includes
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker -- Winner!
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric
Settlement by Christoph Hein
The Believers by Zoë Heller
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Home by Marilynne Robinson
2009 Award
Cllr. Emer Costello, Lord Mayor of Dublin announced today that 156 titles have been nominated for the €100,000 Award. It is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English and is a Dublin City Council initiative, in partnership with IMPAC. The nominations come from 163 libraries in 123 cities and 43 countries worldwide.
Three debut novelists--Junot Díaz, Michael Thomas and Travis Holland--are among the eight finalists for the €100,000 (US$134,965) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest English-language book prize, the Guardian reported. The judges selected the shortlist from a longlist of 147 titles, which had been nominated by libraries around the world. The winner will be announced June 11.
IMPAC Dublin prize shortlist
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Ravel: A Novel by Jean Echenoz
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Man Gone Down: A Novel by Michael Thomas -- Winner!
Previous winners:
2008
DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage
2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2006
The Master by Colm Toibin
2005
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2004
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
(translated from the French by Linda Coverdale)
2003
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
(translated from the Turkish by Erdag M. Göknar)
2002
Atomised(also published as The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
(translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
2001
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (Canadian)
2000
Wide Open by Nicola Barker
1999
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller (English)
1998
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
(translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)
1997
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
(translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa)
1996
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Australian)
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