TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 1988-2010

from Canadian Children's Book Centre accessed 7/16/10

TD CANADIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD
The TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award was established in 2005 to honour the most distinguished book of the year for children aged 1 to 12. Entries are judged on the quality of the text and illustrations and the book’s overall contribution to literature. All books for children, in any genre, written by a Canadian, are eligible for the award. The winning book receives $25,000 and an additional $10,000 is divided amongst the honour books. The publisher of the winning book receives $2,500 for promotional purposes.

MARILYN BAILLIE PICTURE BOOK AWARD
The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format, for children aged 3 to 8. Charles Baillie, retired Chairman and CEO of TD Bank Financial Group, is delighted to give the prize in his wife Marilyn’s name. As an award-winning children’s book author and an early learning specialist, Marilyn is involved in and passionate about children’s literature. The winning book receives $20,000.

NORMA FLECK AWARD FOR CANADIAN CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION
The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction was established by the Fleck Family Foundation in 1999 to recognize Canada’s exceptional non-fiction books for young people. The award honours Norma Fleck (1906-1998), who inspired a deep love of reading in her children and grandchildren. Dr. James Fleck, who initiated the award, is the son of Norma Fleck. The winning book receives $10,000.

GEOFFREY BILSON AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Geoffrey Bilson Award was established in 1988 in memory of the respected historian and children's author, Geoffrey Bilson. The $5,000 prize is awarded annually to the Canadian author of an outstanding work of historical fiction for young people. In 2005, the Bilson Endowment Fund was created to support this award. If you wish to contribute to this fund, please contact the CCBC.

2010 Canadian Children’s Literature Award Shortlist
Dragon Seer by Janet McNaughton
Home Free by Sharon Jennings
The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade --Winner!
A Thousand Years of Pirates and illustrated by William Gilkerson
Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry

2010 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Shortlist

Bitter, Sweet by Laura Best

Crusade by John Wilson
Haunted by Barbara Haworth-Attard
Vanishing Girl(The Boy Sherlock Holmes,Book 3) by Shane Peacock--Winner!
Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry

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2009 Canadian Children’s Literature Award
Nicola I. Campbell, Shin-chi's Canoe. Illustrated by Kim LaFave.

2009 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

John Ibbitson, The Landing

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2008 Canadian Children’s Literature Award

Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton

2008 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton

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2007 Canadian Children’s Literature Award
Sarah Ellis, Odd Man Out

2007 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Eva Wiseman, Kanada

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2006 Canadian Children’s Literature Award

Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man

2006 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man

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2005 Canadian Children’s Literature Award
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance 

2005 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Michel Noël, Good for Nothing
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2004 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Brian Doyle, Boy O’Boy

2003 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Joan Clark, The Word for Home

2002 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Virginia Frances Schwartz, If I Just Had Two Wings

2001 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Sharon McKay, Charlie Wilcox

2000 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
No award?

1999 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers

1998 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Irene N. Watts, Good-bye Marianne

1997 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale

1996 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada

1995 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers

1994 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Kit Pearson, The Lights Go On Again

1993 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew

1992 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
  no award?

1991 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Marianne Brandis, The Sign of the Scales

1990 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Kit Pearson, The Sky is Falling

1989 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands

1988 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
Carol Matas, Lisa

Wellcome Trust Book Prize (2009-10)

from Wellcome Trust Book Prize accessed 11/11/10

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize celebrates the best of medicine in literature by awarding £25 000 each year for the finest fiction or non-fiction book centred around medicine. On these pages you can read about this year's judges and find out everything you need to know about how the prize works.

2010 Shortlist
• 'So Much for That' by Lionel Shriver
• 'Grace Williams Says it Loud' by Emma Henderson
• 'Medic: Saving lives - from Dunkirk to Afghanistan' by John Nichol and Tony Rennell
• 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot --Winner!
• 'Teach Us to Sit Still' by Tim Parks
• 'Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox' by Gareth Williams

Inaugural Prize 2009 Shortlist
• Cutting for Stone
• Illness: The art of living
• Intuition
• Keeper: Living with Nancy --Winner!
• Three Letter Plague
• Tormented Hope

Goncourt Prize (1903-2010)

From Wikipedia accessed 11/11/10

The Prix Goncourt (French: Le prix Goncourt, IPA: [lə pʁi ɡɔ̃kuʁ], The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". Four other prizes are also awarded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (first novel), prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle (short story), prix Goncourt de la Poésie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biographie (biography). [nta=no translation available as of 3/09)

1903 John Antoine Nau Force ennemie nta
1904 Léon Frapié La Maternelle nta For the 1933 film see La Maternelle
1905 Claude Farrère Les Civilisés nta
1906 Jérôme Tharaud Dingley, l'illustre écrivain nta
1907 Emile Moselly Le Rouet d'ivoire and Jean des Brebis ou le livre de la misère nta Pseudonym of Emile Chénin.
1908 Francis de Miomandre Ecrit sur l'eau nta
1909 Marius-Ary Leblond En France nta
1910 Louis Pergaud De Goupil à Margot nta
1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant Monsieur des Lourdines nta
1912 André Savignon Les Filles de la pluie nta
1913 Marc Elder Le peuple de la mer nta
1914 Adrien Bertrand L'Appel du Sol The Call of the Soil (1919) Awarded in 1916. See footnote.[2]
1915 René Benjamin Gaspard Private Gaspard (1916)
1916 Henri Barbusse Le Feu Under Fire (1917) See footnote.[2]
1917 Henry Malherbe La Flamme au poing The Flame That Is France (1918)
1918 Georges Duhamel Civilisation Civilization (1919)
1919 Marcel Proust A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs Within a Budding Grove Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time
1920 Ernest Pérochon Nêne Nêne (1920)
1921 René Maran Batouala Batouala (1921)
1922 Henri Béraud Le vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l'obèse nta
1923 Lucien Fabre Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents nta
1924 Thierry Sandre Le Chèvrefeuille, le Purgatoire, le Chapitre XIII nta
1925 Maurice Genevoix Raboliot nta
1926 Henri Deberly Le supplice de Phèdre The Peat-Cutters (1927)
1927 Maurice Bedel Jérôme 60° latitude nord Jerome: or, The Latitude of Love (1928)
1928 Maurice Constantin-Weyer Un Homme se penche sur son passé A Man Scans His Past (1929)
1929 Marcel Arland L'Ordre nta
1930 H. Fauconnier Malaisie The Soul of Malaya (1931) or Malaisie
1931 Jean Fayard Mal d'amour Desire (1931)
1932 Guy Mazeline Les Loups The Wolves
1933 André Malraux La Condition humaine Man's Fate (1934)
1934 Roger Vercel Capitaine Conan Captain Conan (1935) For the 1996 film see Capitaine Conan
1935 Joseph Peyre Sang et Lumières nta
1936 Maxence Van Der Meersch L'Empreinte de Dieu Hath Not the Potter (1937)
1937 Charles Plisnier Faux Passeports nta
1938 Henri Troyat L'Araigne nta
1939 Philippe Hériat Les enfants gâtés nta
1940 Francis Ambrière Les grandes vacances nta
1941 Henri Pourrat Vent de Mars nta
1942 Marc Bernard Pareil à des enfants nta
1943 Marius Grout Passage de l'Homme When the Man Passed By (1962)
1944 Elsa Triolet Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs A Fine of Two Hundred Francs (1947)
1945 Jean-Louis Bory Mon village à l'heure allemande nta
1946 Jean-Jacques Gautier Histoire d'un Fait divers nta
1947 Jean-Louis Curtis Les Forêts de la Nuit The Forests of the Night (1950)
1948 Maurice Druon Les grandes familles nta
1949 Robert Merle Week-end à Zuydcoote Week-end at Zuydcoote (1950). For the 1964 film see Weekend at Dunkirk
1950 Paul Colin Les jeux sauvages nta
1951 Julien Gracq Le Rivage des Syrtes The Opposing Shore (1986) Refused prize.
1952 Béatrix Beck Léon Morin, prêtre The Priest (UK 1953), The Passionate Heart (US 1953). For the 1961 film see Léon Morin, Priest
1953 Pierre Gascar Les Bêtes nta
1954 Simone de Beauvoir Les Mandarins The Mandarins (1957)
1955 Roger Ikor Les eaux mêlées nta
1956 Romain Gary Les racines du ciel The Roots of Heaven (1957) For the 1958 film see The Roots of Heaven
1957 Roger Vailland La Loi The Law (1958)
1958 Francis Walder Saint Germain ou la Négociation nta
1959 André Schwarz-Bart Le dernier des Justes The Last of the Just (1960)
1960 Vintilă Horia Dieu est né en exil God Was Born in Exile (1961)
1961 Jean Cau La pitié de Dieu nta
1962 Anna Langfus Les bagages de sable nta
1963 Armand Lanoux Quand la mer se retire nta
1964 Georges Conchon L'Etat sauvage nta
1965 Jacques Borel L'Adoration nta
1966 Edmonde Charles-Roux Oublier Palerme To Forget Palermo (1968)
1967 André Pieyre de Mandiargues La Marge The Margin (1970)
1968 Bernard Clavel Les fruits de l'hiver The Fruits of Winter (1969)
1969 Félicien Marceau Creezy nta
1970 Michel Tournier Le Roi des Aulnes The Erl-King (UK 1972) or The Ogre (US 1972) For the 1996 film see The Ogre
1971 Jacques Laurent Les Bêtises nta
1972 Jean Carrière L'Epervier de Maheux nta
1973 Jacques Chessex L'Ogre A Father's Love (1975)
1974 Pascal Lainé La Dentellière A Web of Lace (1976) or The Lacemaker(?) (2008(?))[3] For the 1977 film see The Lacemaker.
1975 Emile Ajar (Romain Gary) La vie devant soi Momo (1978) or The Life Before Us (1986). For the 1977 film see Madame Rosa
1976 Patrick Grainville Les Flamboyants nta
1977 Didier Decoin John l'enfer nta
1978 Patrick Modiano Rue des boutiques obscures Missing Person (1980)
1979 Antonine Maillet Pélagie la Charette Pélagie: The Return to Acadie (1982)
1980 Yves Navarre Le Jardin d'acclimatation nta
1981 Lucien Bodard Anne Marie nta
1982 Dominique Fernandez Dans la main de l'Ange nta
1983 Frédérick Tristan Les égarés The Lost Ones (1991)
1984 Marguerite Duras L'Amant The Lover (1986). For the 1992 film see The Lover.
1985 Yann Queffélec Les Noces barbares The Wedding (1987)
1986 Michel Host Valet de nuit nta
1987 Tahar Ben Jelloun La Nuit sacrée The Sacred Night (1989)
1988 Érik Orsenna L'Exposition coloniale nta
1989 Jean Vautrin Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu nta
1990 Jean Rouaud Les Champs d'honneur Fields of Glory (1992)
1991 Pierre Combescot Les Filles du Calvaire nta
1992 Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco Texaco (1998)
1993 Amin Maalouf Le Rocher de Tanios The Rock of Tanios (1994)
1994 Didier Van Cauwelaert Un Aller simple One-Way (2003)
1995 Andreï Makine Le Testament français Dreams of My Russian Summers (1998)
1996 Pascale Roze Le Chasseur Zéro nta
1997 Patrick Rambaud La Bataille The Battle (2000)
1998 Paule Constant Confidence pour confidence nta
1999 Jean Echenoz Je m'en vais I'm Gone (US 2001) or I'm Off (UK 2001)
2000 Jean-Jacques Schuhl Ingrid Caven Ingrid Caven (2004)
2001 Jean-Christophe Rufin Rouge Brésil Brazil Red (2004)
2002 Pascal Quignard Les Ombres errantes nta
2003 Jacques-Pierre Amette La maîtresse de Brecht Brecht's Lover (US 2005) or Brecht's Mistress (UK 2005)
2004 Laurent Gaudé Le Soleil des Scorta The House of Scorta (US 2006) The Scortas' Sun (UK 2007)
2005 François Weyergans Trois jours chez ma mère nta
2006 Jonathan Littell Les Bienveillantes The Kindly Ones (2009)
2007 Gilles Leroy Alabama song nta
2008 Atiq Rahimi Syngué Sabour: La pierre de patience Stone of Patience (UK 2010) The Patience Stone (US 2010)
2009 Marie NDiaye Trois femmes puissantes nta
2010 Michel Houellebecq La Carte et le territoire nta

Scotiabank Giller Prize (1994-2009)

2010 Longlist
The Matter With Morris by David Bergen -- shortlist
Player One by Douglas Coupland (House of Anansi Press)
Cities of Refuge by Michael Helm (McClelland & Stewart)
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod  -- shortlist
The Debba by Avner Mandelman (Other Press/Random House of Canada)
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (Dial/Random House of Canada)
This Cake Is For The Party by Sarah Selecky  -- shortlist
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud  -- shortlist, Winner!
Lemon by Cordelia Strube (Coach House Books)
Curiosity by Joan Thomas (McClelland & Stewart)
Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart (McClelland & Stewart)
Cool Water by Dianne Warren (Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins)
Annabel by Kathleen Winter -- shortlist

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is an award that goes to the author of a Canadian novel or short story fiction collection published in English (including translation) deemed by a jury to be the best published in the previous year.

This prize was established as the Giller Prize in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star. The prize is awarded in November of each year, along with a cash reward (then CAN$25,000).

On September 22, 2005, the Giller Prize established an endorsement deal with Scotiabank, a major Canadian bank. The total prize package for the award was increased to $50,000, with $40,000 presented to the winning author and $2,500 each for the other four shortlisted nominees. The award's official name was also changed at that time to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

In 2006, the prize instituted a longlist for the first time, comprising no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 titles. In 2008, the prize fund was increased to $50,000 for the winning author and $5,000 for each of the authors on the shortlist.

Winners listed first under each year:

1994
* M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets
* Bonnie Burnard, Casino and Other Stories
* Eliza Clark, What You Need
* Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
* Steve Weiner, The Museum of Love

1995
* Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
* Timothy Findley, The Piano Man's Daughter
* Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman
* Leo McKay, Jr., Like This
* Richard B. Wright, The Age of Longing

1996
* Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
* Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
* Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
* Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
* Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy

1997
* Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
* Michael Helm, The Projectionist
* Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
* Nino Ricci, Where She Has Gone
* Carol Shields, Larry's Party

1998
* Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
* André Alexis, Childhood
* Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees
* Barbara Gowdy, The White Bone
* Greg Hollingshead, The Healer
* Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

1999
* Bonnie Burnard, A Good House
* Timothy Findley, Pilgrim
* Anne Hébert, Am I Disturbing You?
* Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel
* David Macfarlane, Summer Gone

2000

In 2000, the award was presented to two writers and juried by Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, and Jane Urquhart. This is the only time the Giller has ever resulted in a tie, and Rabinovitch has advised subsequent Giller juries that they must choose a single winner.

* Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
* David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
* Alan Cumyn, Burridge Unbound
* Elizabeth Hay, A Student of Weather
* Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
* Fred Stenson, The Trade

2001
* Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
* Sandra Birdsell, The Russlander
* Michael Crummey, River Thieves
* Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
* Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
* Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers

2002
* Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
* Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
* Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York
* Lisa Moore, Open
* Carol Shields, Unless

2003
* M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
* Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
* John Bemrose, The Island Walkers
* John Gould, Kilter: 55 Fictions
* Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies

2004
* Alice Munro, Runaway
* Shauna Singh Baldwin, The Tiger Claw
* Wayson Choy, All That Matters
* Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
* Paul Quarrington, Galveston
* Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

2005
David Bergen, The Time in Between --winner!
* Joan Barfoot, Luck
* Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly
* Lisa Moore, Alligator: A Novel
* Edeet Ravel, A Wall of Light

2006
* Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
* Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
* Pascale Quiviger, The Perfect Circle (translation by Sheila Fischman)
* Gaétan Soucy, The Immaculate Conception (translation by Lazer Lederhendler)
* Carol Windley, Home Schooling

Longlist nominees

In 2006, the Giller Prize publicized its preliminary longlist for the first time.
* David Adams Richards, The Friends of Meager Fortune
* Caroline Adderson, Pleased to Meet You
* Todd Babiak, The Garneau Block
* Randy Boyagoda, Governor of the Northern Province
* Douglas Coupland, jPod
* Alan Cumyn, The Famished Lover
* Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
* Kenneth J. Harvey, Inside
* Wayne Johnston, The Custodian of Paradise
* Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures --shortlist
* Annette Lapointe, Stolen
* Pascale Quiviger, The Perfect Circle
* Gaétan Soucy, The Immaculate Conception
* Russell Wangersky, The Hour of Bad Decisions
* Carol Windley, Home Schooling

2007
* Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
* Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
* Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us (trans. Donald Winkler)
* M. G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song
* Alissa York, Effigy

Longlist nominees

* David Chariandy, Soucouyant
* Sharon English, Zero Gravity
* Barbara Gowdy, Helpless
* Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
* Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
* Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather
* D. R. MacDonald, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
* Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim
* Mary Novik, Conceit
* Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
* Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us (translated by Donald Winkler)
* M. G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song
* Michael Winter, The Architects Are Here
* Richard B. Wright, October
* Alissa York, Effigy

2008
* Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
* Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
* Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault
* Rawi Hage, Cockroach
* Mary Swan, The Boys in the Trees

Longlist nominees

* David Adams Richards, The Lost Highway
* David Bergen, The Retreat
* Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
* Austin Clarke, More
* Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
* Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
* Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault
* Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
* Rawi Hage, Cockroach
* Kenneth J. Harvey, Blackstrap Hawco
* Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog
* Pasha Malla, The Withdrawal Method
* Paul Quarrington, The Ravine
* Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species
* Mary Swan, The Boys in the Trees

2009 Giller Prize Longlist from Scotiabank Giller Prize accessed 9/22/09

September 21, 2009 (Toronto, ON) – The 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury today announced its longlist of books in the running for this year’s prize. The jury selected 12 titles out of 96 books, submitted by 39 publishers from every region of Canada.

Celebrated American novelist and short story writer Russell Banks, acclaimed UK author and journalist Victoria Glendinning, and distinguished Canadian writer and professor, Alistair MacLeod made up the 2009 jury. Two thousand and nine marks the sixteenth year of the prize.

From a highly competitive field, the Scotiabank Giller jury has selected the following titles for this year’s longlist:

Atwood, Margaret for her novel The Year Of The Flood
Martha Bailie for her novel The Incident Report
Kim Echlin for her novel The Disappeared
Claire Holden Rothman for her novel The Heart Specialist
Paulette Jiles for her novel The Colour Of Lighting
Jeanette Lynes for her novel The Factory Voice
Annabel Lyon for her novel The Golden Mean
Linden MacIntyre for his novel The Bishop’s Man -- Winner!
Colin McAdam for his novel Fall
Anne Michaels for her novel The Winter Vault
Shani Mootoo for her novel Valmiki’s Daughter
Kate Pullinger for her novel The Mistress Of Nothing

Of the longlist, the jury writes:

"Though they vary stylistically and structurally and connect with and extend a range of novelistic traditions, every one of these twelve books is an excellent, beautifully crafted work of fiction with a cast of vividly realized, memorable characters. We were particularly impressed by the authors' broad and deep visions of society and their profound affection for humanity and the natural world. Equally impressive is their imaginative engagement with history, from that of ancient Greece to yesterday's breaking news, and even in a few cases, to the history of a dystopian future."

The shortlisted finalists will be announced at a news conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on Tuesday, October 6th. CTV is the proud broadcast partner of The Scotiabank Giller Prize. Broadcast details will be disclosed at a later date.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $50,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English and $5,000 to each of the finalists. The Scotiabank Giller Prize is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and was founded in 1994 by her husband Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch.

Prime Minister's Literary Awards (2008-2010)

From Australian Government, Arts and Culture accessed 7/19/10

2010 Shortlist:
Children's fiction
* Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
* The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Andrew Joyner
* Just Macbeth by Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton
* Mr Chicken goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs
* Running with the Horses by Alison Lester
* Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood --Winner!
* Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray and illustrator Sally Rippin
* Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children by Jen Storer
* Harry and Hopper by Margaret Wild and illustrator Freya Blackwood

Fiction
* Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
* The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
* The Lakewoman by Alan Gould
* Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
* Ransom by David Malouf --Winner!
* Lovesong by Alex Miller
* As the Earth turns Silver by Alison Wong

Non-fiction
The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness by Will Elliott
The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens --Winner!
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker

Young adult fiction
* Stolen by Lucy Christopher
* The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke
* Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon --Winner!
* The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds
* Swerve by Phillip Gwynne
* Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen
* Beatle meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams



The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. The awards, held annually, recognise literature's importance to our national identity, community and economy. A tax free prize of $100,000 is awarded to the works judged to be of the highest literary merit in each of two categories: fiction and non-fiction.

The 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners were named by Peter Garrett, Australia's Minister for the Arts. Nam Le won the fiction prize for his short story collection, The Boat, which the judging panel praised for "the daring scope and excellence of its execution, the generous breadth of its emotional and social traverse and the excitement generated by every story."

The nonfiction award was shared by two books, House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers and Drawing the Global Colour Line by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds. The nonfiction judges lauded both books for "great intellectual authority and international research."

2009 Shortlist:
Non-Fiction
* Van Diemen's Land - James Boyce (Black Inc.)
* Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley - Brian Dibble (UWA Press)
* Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History - Jenny Hocking
* The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - Chloe Hooper (Penguin Books)
* House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann - Evelyn Juers --co-winner!
* Drawing the Global Colour Line - Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds --co-winner!
* The Henson Case - David Marr (Text Publishing)
* American Journeys - Don Watson (Random House)

Fiction
* The Pages - Murray Bail (Text Publishing)
* People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks (Harper Collins)
* Wanting - Richard Flanagan (Random House)
* Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy (Penguin Books)
* One Foot Wrong - Sofie Laguna (Allen and Unwin)
* The Boat - Nam Le -- Winner!
* The Good Parents - Joan London (Random House)

2008 Prime Minister Literary Awards shortlist

The Minister for the Arts has announced the short list for the 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
Short list: Fiction

The 91 entries in the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards included a wide range of contemporary Australian fiction.

The seven short-listed fiction books include works in prose, a compilation of short stories and one work in verse. Among the short list are writers whose distinguished careers have spanned decades as well as debut authors whose careers are just beginning.

* Burning In Mireille Juchau (Giramondo)
* El Dorado Dorothy Porter (Picador)
* Jamaica Malcolm Knox (Allen and Unwin)
* Sorry Gail Jones (Vintage)
* The Complete Stories David Malouf (Knopf)
* The Widow and Her Hero Tom Keneally (Doubleday)
* The Zookeeper's War Steven Conte (Fourth Estate) -- winner!

Short list: Non-fiction

A total of 103 books, traversing topics from politics, art, philosophy and architecture were entered in the 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards non-fiction category.

The judges selected the seven short-listed books because of their originality, rich detail and clarity of writing. Included in the short list are histories born from meticulous research, engaging accounts of survival and moving stories that resonate long after the book has been closed.

* A History of Queensland Raymond Evans (Cambridge University Press)
* Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time Clive James (Picador)
* My Life as a Traitor Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman (Scribe)
* Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799 Philip Dwyer (Bloomsbury)
* Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers Philip Jones (Wakefield Press) -- Winner!
* Shakespeare's Wife Germaine Greer (Bloomsbury)
* Vietnam: The Australian War Paul Ham (HarperCollins)

Booktrust Teenage Prize

from Booktrust, accessed 11/04/10

The Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010 shortlist was:

The Enemy by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
Halo by Zizou Corder (Puffin)
Nobody’s Girl by Sarra Manning
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes --winner!

2009 prize

The shortlist for the 2009 prize was announced on 21 September.

Auslander by Paul Dowswell (Bloomsbury)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)--winner!
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray (Definitions)
The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant (Puffin)
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness (Walker)

2008 prize

Winner
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Walker)

Other shortlisted titles
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner (Orion)
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz (Walker)
Apache by Tanya Landman (Walker)
The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan (Definitions)
Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson (Bodley Head)

2007 prize

Winner
My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion)

Other shortlisted titles
The Medici Seal by Theresa Breslin (Doubleday)
Leaving Poppy by Kate Cann (Scholastic)
The Penalty by Mal Peet (Walker Books)
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff (Penguin)

2006 prize

Winner
Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan (Doubleday)

Other shortlisted titles


A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Beast by Ally Kennan (Scholastic Books)
Exchange by Paul Magrs (Simon and Schuster)
The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion)
Angel Blood by John Singleton (Puffin)

2005 prize

Winner
Century by Sarah Singleton (Simon and Schuster)

Other shortlisted titles
The Whisper by Bali Rai (Corgi)
Come Clean by Terri Paddock (HarperCollins)
Siberia by Ann Halam (Orion)
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Penguin)
The Unrivalled Spangles by Karen Wallace (Simon and Schuster)
Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill (Young Picador)

2004 prize

Winner
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy (Scholastic)

Other shortlisted titles
Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (Egmont)
Rani and Sukh by Bali Rai (Corgi)
Boy Kills Man by Matt Whyman (Hodder)
The Opposite of Chocolate by Julie Bertagna (Macmillan)
The Dark Beneath by Alan Gibbons (Orion)
Unique by Alison Allen-Gray (Oxford University Press).
Deep Secret by Berlie Doherty (Puffin)

2003 prize

Winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (David Fickling Books)

Other shortlisted titles
Doing It by Melvin Burgess (Andersen Press)
Lucas by Kevin Brooks (The Chicken House)
The Dungeon by Lynne Reid Banks (HarperCollins)
The Edge by Alan Gibbons (Orion)
Caught in the Crossfire by Alan Gibbons (Orion)
Malarkey by Keith Gray (Red Fox)

World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1975-2010)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Locus Online info accessed 8/27/10
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.

2010 novel finalists:
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The City & The City by China Miéville --winner!
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield

Award winners and finalists from previous years:
1975
Winner: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

* A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
* Merlin's Ring by H. Warner Munn

1976
Winner: Bid Time Return (aka Somewhere in Time), Richard Matheson
* Salem's Lot, Stephen King

1977
Winner: Doctor Rat, William Kotzwinkle
* The Doll Who Ate His Mother, Ramsey Campbell
* The Dragon and the George, Gordon R. Dickson
* The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Michael Moorcock
* The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck
* Dark Crusade, Karl Edward Wagner
1978

1978
Winner: Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber
* The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
* The Hour of the Oxrun Dead, Charles L. Grant

1979
Winner: Gloriana, Michael Moorcock
* The Black Castle, Les Daniels
* The Sound of Midnight, Charles L. Grant
* The Stand, Stephen King
* Night's Master, Tanith Lee

1980
* Winner: Watchtower, Elizabeth A. Lynn
* The Last Call of Mourning, Charles L. Grant
* The Dancers of Arun, Elizabeth A. Lynn
* Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip
* The Dark Bright Water, Patricia Wrightson
* The Palace, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

1981
* Winner: The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
* Firelord, Parke Godwin
* The Mist, Stephen King
* Shadowland, Peter Straub
* Ariosto, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

1982
* Winner: Little, Big, John Crowley
* The Nameless, Ramsey Campbell
* The War Hound and the World's Pain, Michael Moorcock
* The White Hotel, D. M. Thomas
* The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe

1983
* Winner: Nifft the Lean, Michael Shea
* The Nestling, Charles L. Grant
* Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin
* Phantom, Thomas Tessier
* The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe

1984
* Winner: The Dragon Waiting, John M. Ford
* Pet Sematary, Stephen King
* The Wandering Unicorn, Manuel Mujica Lainez
* Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy
* The Armageddon Rag, George R. R. Martin
* Lyonesse, Jack Vance

1985
* Winner: Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
* Winner: Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
* Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
* The Talisman, Stephen King & Peter Straub
* The Ceremonies, T. E. D. Klein

1986
* Winner: Song of Kali, Dan Simmons
* The Damnation Game, Clive Barker
* Illywhacker, Peter Carey
* The Dream Years, Lisa Goldstein
* Winterking, Paul Hazel
* The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

1987
* Winner: Perfume, Patrick Suskind
* Talking Man, Terry Bisson
* The Pet, Charles L. Grant
* It, Stephen King
* Strangers, Dean R. Koontz
* The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy
* Soldier of the Mist, Gene Wolfe
* Portrait of Callum McKendrick As A Young African Boy, Edgar Fong

1988
* Winner: Replay, Ken Grimwood
* Weaveworld, Clive Barker
* Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card
* AEgypt, John Crowley
* Misery, Stephen King
* Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
* On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers

1989
* Winner: Koko, Peter Straub
* The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
* Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll
* Fade, Robert Cormier
* The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
* The Drive-In, Joe R. Lansdale

1990
* Winner: Lyonesse: Madouc, Jack Vance
* A Child Across the Sky, Jonathan Carroll
* In a Dark Dream, Charles L. Grant
* The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
* Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons
* Soldier of Arete, Gene Wolfe

1991
* Winner: Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow
* Winner: Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner
* Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
* Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
* Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

1992
* Winner: Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
* Hunting the Ghost Dancer, A.A. Attanasio
* The Paper Grail, James P. Blaylock
* Bone Dance, Emma Bull
* Outside the Dog Museum, Jonathan Carroll
* The Little Country, Charles de Lint

1993
* Winner: Last Call, Tim Powers
* Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
* Was, Geoff Ryman
* Photographing Fairies, Steve Szilagyi
* Briar Rose, Jane Yolen

1994
* Winner: Glimpses, Lewis Shiner
* The Innkeeper's Song, Peter S. Beagle
* Drawing Blood, Poppy Z. Brite
* Skin, Kathe Koja
* The Throat, Peter Straub
* The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick
* Lord of the Two Lands, Judith Tarr
1995
* Winner: Towing Jehovah, James Morrow
* Brittle Innings, Michael Bishop
* From The Teeth of Angels, Jonathan Carroll
* Love & Sleep, John Crowley
* Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
* The Circus of the Earth and the Air, Brooke Stevens

1996
* Winner: The Prestige, Christopher Priest
* All the Bells on Earth, James P. Blaylock
* Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra
* The Silent Strength of Stones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
* Requiem, Graham Joyce
* Expiration Date, Tim Powers

1997
* Winner: Godmother Night, Rachel Pollack
* Shadow of Ashland, Terence M. Green
* The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle
* The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw
* A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
* The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott
* Devil's Tower, Mark Sumner

1998
* Winner: The Physiognomy, Jeffrey Ford (Avon)
* Trader, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* American Goliath, Harvey Jacobs (St. Martin's)
* The Gift, Patrick O'Leary (Tor)
* Dry Water, Eric S. Nylund (Avon)

1999
* Winner: The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich (HarperFlamingo)
* Someplace to Be Flying, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Earthlight; Viking; HarperPrism)
* Mockingbird, Sean Stewart (Ace)
* The Martyring, Thomas Sullivan (Forge)

2000
* Winner: Thraxas, Martin Scott (Orbit)
* Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
* The Rainy Season, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
* Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson (Bantam Press)
* A Witness To Life, Terence M. Green (Forge)
* A Red Heart of Memories, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)

2001
* Winner: Declare, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)
* Winner: Galveston, Sean Stewart (Ace Books)
* The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky (Bantam Spectra)
* The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Scholastic UK)
* Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; HarperPrism; Earthlight)
* Perdido Street Station, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)

2002
* Winner: The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
* American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
* Brown Harvest, Jay Russell (Four Walls Eight Windows)
* The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)
* From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
* The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll (Tor)

2003
* Winner: The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
* Winner: Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
* Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)
* The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)

2004
* Winner: Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton (Tor)
* The Etched City, K.J. Bishop (Prime Books)
* Fudoki, Kij Johnson (Tor)
* The Light Ages, Ian R. MacLeod (Ace)
* Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)

2005
* Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
* The Runes of the Earth, Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam; Gollancz)
* Iron Council, China Miéville (Del Rey)
* Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press)
* The Wizard Knight, Gene Wolfe (Tor, two volumes)

2006
* Winner: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)
* Vellum, Hal Duncan (Macmillan; Del Rey)
* Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf; Macmillan)
* The Limits of Enchantment, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Atria)
* Od Magic, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park (Tor)

2007
* Winner: Soldier of Sidon , Gene Wolfe (Tor)
* Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
* The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
* The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
* The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)

2008
* Winner: Ysabel , Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
* Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
* Fangland, John Marks (Penguin Press)
* Gospel of the Knife, Will Shetterly (Tor)
* The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)

The 2009 shortlist for novel includes:
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford -- Winner!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan