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
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Edgar Awards (2009-2011)
2011 Nominees from Mystery Writers of America accessed 1/20/11
Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Edgar
Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction,
non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the
winners at our 65th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
BEST NOVEL
Caught by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster)
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Snow Angels by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt)
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press) 2
BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South
by Alex Heard (HarperCollins)
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his
Assassin by Hampton Sides (Random House - Doubleday)
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by Douglas Starr
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
by John Curran (HarperCollins)
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley)
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendevouz with American
History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
"The Plot" – First Thrills by Jeffery Deaver (Tom Doherty – Forge Books)
"A Good Safe Place” – Thin Ice by Judith Green (Level Best Books)
"Monsieur Alice is Absent" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
by Stephen Ross (Dell Magazines)
"The Creative Writing Murders" – Dark End of the Street by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)
BEST JUVENILE
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)
The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends)
Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jiim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)
7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
(Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill) 3
BEST PLAY
The Psychic by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre – Burbank, CA)
The Tangled Skirt by Steve Braunstein (New Jersey Repertory Company)
The Fall of the House by Robert Ford (Alabama Shakespeare Festival)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Episode 1” - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Episode 4” – Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Full Measure” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“No Mas” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“The Next One’s Gonna Go In Your Throat” – Damages, Teleplay by Todd A. Kessler,
Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman (FX Networks)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
GRAND MASTER
Sara Paretsky
RAVEN AWARDS
Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois
Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2010)
Wild Penance by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Down River by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub
Here are the winners of the 2010 Edgar Awards, who were honored at the Mystery Writers of America banquet in New York City:
2010:
Best novel: The Last Child by John Hart
Best Novel Shortlist:
# The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
# The Odds by Kathleen George
# Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
# Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
# A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
Best first novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur)
Best first novel by an American Author Shortlist:
# The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
# A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
# Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Best paperback original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press/Castle Street Mysteries)
Best Paperback Original Shortlist:
# Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
# Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano
# The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill
# Body Blows by Marc Strange
# The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L.C. Tyler
Best critical/biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Little, Brown)
Best fact crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen (Twelve)
Best short story: "Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea in Phoenix Noir (Akashic)
Best young adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperTeen)
Young Adult Shortlist:
# If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
# The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
# Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low
# Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell
Best juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
Juvenile Shortlist:
# The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
# The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer
Best TV episode teleplay: "Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Dreadful Day" by Dan Warthman in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Shortlist:
# Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof by Blaize Clement
# Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
# Lethal Vintage by Nadia Gordon
# Dial H for Hitchcock
Grand Master: Dorothy Gilman
Raven Award: Mystery Writers' Festival
Ellery Queen Award: Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)
C.J. Box's Blue Heaven was named best novel at the 63rd (2009) Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, presented by the Mystery Writers of America in New York City and featuring Grand Masters James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton.
2009 Edgar winners
Best Novel: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
Best Novel Shortlist:
# The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
# The Night Following by Morag Joss
# Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
# The Kind One by Tom Epperson
# Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
# Calumet City by Charlie Newton
# A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
Best Paperback Original: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Best Paperback Original Shortlist:
# The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr
# The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
Best Fact Crime: American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum
Best Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe
Best Short Story: "Skinhead Central," Mystery Writers of America Presents: The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker
Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Prayer of the Bone," Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson
Best Motion Picture Screen Play: In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Buckner's Error," Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli
Raven Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Md., and Poe House, Baltimore, Md.
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd
2008 Edgar Nominees and Winners:
Best Novel Nominees
* Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
* Priest by Ken Bruen
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
* Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
* Down River by John Hart – Winner!
Best First Novel By An American Author
* Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
* In the Woods by Tana French – Winner!
* Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard
* Head Games by Craig McDonald
* Pyres by Derek Nikitas
Best Paperback Original
* Queenpin by Megan Abbott – Winner!
* Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
* Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks
* Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill
* Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall
Best Fact Crime
* The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert
* Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi – Winner!
* Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook
* Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn
* Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson
Best Short Story
* "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons
* "Blue Note" - Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky
* "Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman
* "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight – Winner!
* "Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell
Best Young Adult
* Rat Life by Tedd Arnold – Winner!
* Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
* Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
* Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
* Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston
Best Juvenile
* The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
* Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman
* Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
* The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh – Winner!
* Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen
Best Play
* If/Then by David Foley
* Panic by Joseph Goodrich – Winner!
* Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
* In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews
* Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault – Winner!
* Inferno by Karen Harper
* The First Stone by Judith Kelman
* Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella
2007 Edgar Nominees and Winners:
Best Novel Nominees
* The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
* The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin – Winner!
* Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
* The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
* The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
* Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer
Best First Novel By An American Author
* The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson – Winner!
* Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
* King of Lies by John Hart
* Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
* A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
Best Paperback Original
* The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Lawrence Venuti
* The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
* Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara – Winner!
* The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
* City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate
Best Critical/Biographical
* Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin
* The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear by E.J. Wagner – Winner!
Best Fact Crime
* Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
* A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
* Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine by Capt. Joseph K. Loughlin & Kate Clark Flora
* Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer by Robin Odell
* The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower
* Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson – Winner!
Best Short Story
* "The Home Front" - Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai – Winner!
* "Rain" - Manhattan Noir by Thomas H. Cook
* "Cranked" - Damn Near Dead by Bill Crider
* "Building" - Manhattan Noir by S.J. Rozan
Best Young Adult
* The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
* The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
* Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
* Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready – Winner!
* The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci
Best Juvenile
* The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer
Best Play
* Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz – Winner!
* Curtains by Rupert Holmes
* Ghosts of Ocean House by Michael Kimball
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* William Dylan Powell "Evening Gold" - EQMM November 2006 (Dell Magazines)
The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
* Bloodline by Fiona Mountain (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Edgar
Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction,
non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the
winners at our 65th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
BEST NOVEL
Caught by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster)
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Snow Angels by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt)
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press) 2
BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South
by Alex Heard (HarperCollins)
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his
Assassin by Hampton Sides (Random House - Doubleday)
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by Douglas Starr
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
by John Curran (HarperCollins)
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley)
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendevouz with American
History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
"The Plot" – First Thrills by Jeffery Deaver (Tom Doherty – Forge Books)
"A Good Safe Place” – Thin Ice by Judith Green (Level Best Books)
"Monsieur Alice is Absent" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
by Stephen Ross (Dell Magazines)
"The Creative Writing Murders" – Dark End of the Street by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)
BEST JUVENILE
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)
The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends)
Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jiim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)
7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
(Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill) 3
BEST PLAY
The Psychic by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre – Burbank, CA)
The Tangled Skirt by Steve Braunstein (New Jersey Repertory Company)
The Fall of the House by Robert Ford (Alabama Shakespeare Festival)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Episode 1” - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Episode 4” – Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Full Measure” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“No Mas” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“The Next One’s Gonna Go In Your Throat” – Damages, Teleplay by Todd A. Kessler,
Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman (FX Networks)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
GRAND MASTER
Sara Paretsky
RAVEN AWARDS
Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois
Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2010)
Wild Penance by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Down River by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub
Here are the winners of the 2010 Edgar Awards, who were honored at the Mystery Writers of America banquet in New York City:
2010:
Best novel: The Last Child by John Hart
Best Novel Shortlist:
# The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
# The Odds by Kathleen George
# Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
# Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
# A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
Best first novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur)
Best first novel by an American Author Shortlist:
# The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
# Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
# The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf # A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
# Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Best paperback original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press/Castle Street Mysteries)
Best Paperback Original Shortlist:
# Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
# Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano
# The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill
# Body Blows by Marc Strange
# The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L.C. Tyler
Best critical/biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Little, Brown)
Best fact crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen (Twelve)
Best short story: "Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea in Phoenix Noir (Akashic)
Best young adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperTeen)
Young Adult Shortlist:
# If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
# The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
# Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low
# Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell
Best juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
Juvenile Shortlist:
# The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
# The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil
# Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds # The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer
Best TV episode teleplay: "Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Dreadful Day" by Dan Warthman in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Shortlist:
# Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof by Blaize Clement
# Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
# Lethal Vintage by Nadia Gordon
# Dial H for Hitchcock
Grand Master: Dorothy Gilman
Raven Award: Mystery Writers' Festival
Ellery Queen Award: Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)
C.J. Box's Blue Heaven was named best novel at the 63rd (2009) Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, presented by the Mystery Writers of America in New York City and featuring Grand Masters James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton.
2009 Edgar winners
Best Novel: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
Best Novel Shortlist:
# Missing by Karin Alvtegen
# Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno # The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
# The Night Following by Morag Joss
# Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
Best First Novel: The Foreigner by Francie Lin
Best First Novel Shortlist# The Kind One by Tom Epperson
# Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
# Calumet City by Charlie Newton
# A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
Best Paperback Original: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Best Paperback Original Shortlist:
# The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr
# Money Shot by Christa Faust
# Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney # The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
Best Fact Crime: American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum
Best Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe
Best Short Story: "Skinhead Central," Mystery Writers of America Presents: The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker
Best Juvenile: The Postcard by Tony Abbott
Best Young Adult: Paper Towns by John Green
Best Play: The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa BayezaBest Television Episode Teleplay: "Prayer of the Bone," Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson
Best Motion Picture Screen Play: In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Buckner's Error," Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli
Raven Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Md., and Poe House, Baltimore, Md.
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd
2008 Edgar Nominees and Winners:
Best Novel Nominees
* Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
* Priest by Ken Bruen
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
* Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
* Down River by John Hart – Winner!
Best First Novel By An American Author
* Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
* In the Woods by Tana French – Winner!
* Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard
* Head Games by Craig McDonald
* Pyres by Derek Nikitas
Best Paperback Original
* Queenpin by Megan Abbott – Winner!
* Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
* Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks
* Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill
* Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall
Best Fact Crime
* The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert
* Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi – Winner!
* Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook
* Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn
* Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson
Best Short Story
* "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons
* "Blue Note" - Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky
* "Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman
* "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight – Winner!
* "Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell
Best Young Adult
* Rat Life by Tedd Arnold – Winner!
* Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
* Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
* Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
* Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston
Best Juvenile
* The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
* Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman
* Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
* The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh – Winner!
* Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen
Best Play
* If/Then by David Foley
* Panic by Joseph Goodrich – Winner!
* Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
* In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews
* Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault – Winner!
* Inferno by Karen Harper
* The First Stone by Judith Kelman
* Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella
2007 Edgar Nominees and Winners:
Best Novel Nominees
* The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
* The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin – Winner!
* Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
* The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
* The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
* Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer
Best First Novel By An American Author
* The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson – Winner!
* Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
* King of Lies by John Hart
* Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
* A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
Best Paperback Original
* The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Lawrence Venuti
* The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
* Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara – Winner!
* The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
* City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate
Best Critical/Biographical
* Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin
* The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear by E.J. Wagner – Winner!
Best Fact Crime
* Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
* A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
* Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine by Capt. Joseph K. Loughlin & Kate Clark Flora
* Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer by Robin Odell
* The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower
* Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson – Winner!
Best Short Story
* "The Home Front" - Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai – Winner!
* "Rain" - Manhattan Noir by Thomas H. Cook
* "Cranked" - Damn Near Dead by Bill Crider
* "Building" - Manhattan Noir by S.J. Rozan
Best Young Adult
* The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
* The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
* Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
* Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready – Winner!
* The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci
Best Juvenile
* Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake by Jennifer Allison
* The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey * Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements – Winner!
* The Bloodwater Mysteries: Snatched by Pete Hautman & Mary Logue * The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer
Best Play
* Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz – Winner!
* Curtains by Rupert Holmes
* Ghosts of Ocean House by Michael Kimball
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* William Dylan Powell "Evening Gold" - EQMM November 2006 (Dell Magazines)
The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
* Bloodline by Fiona Mountain (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Friday, January 14, 2011
Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction and Legal History (2001-10)
from Langum Charitable Trust website accessed 2/22/10
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction
A prize to encourage and reward excellent American historical fiction is a natural element in our effort to make the rich history of America accessible to the educated general reader. The David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction is offered annually to the best book in American historical fiction that is both excellent fiction and excellent history. Any press may publish the work, with the exceptions that the book may not be self-published or published by a subsidized publisher.
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History or Biography
This prize is made annually to be the best university press book in American legal history or biography that is accessible to the educated general public, rooted in sound scholarship, and with themes that touch upon matters of general concern to the American public, past or present.
2010 Winners
Ann Weisgarber for The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Robin Oliveira for My Name is Mary Sutter -- Honorable Mention
Kelli Carmean for Creekside: An Archeological Novel -- Special Mention
Jackson Taylor for The Blue Orchard -- Special Mention
2009 Winners:
Edward Rutherfurd for his New York: The Novel
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman for In the Lion’s Den: A Novel of the Civil War -- Special Mention
Jamie Ford for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet -- Special Mention
2008 Winners:
Kathleen Kent for The Heretic’s Daughter: A Novel -- Winner
Elisabeth Payne Rosen for Hallam’s War -- Honorable Mention
Jack Fuller’s Abbeville -- Special Mention
2007 Winner:
Ernest Freeberg for Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent -- Winner
Peter Charles Hoffer for the book, The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr -- Honorable Mention
2007 Winner:
Bruce J. Dierenfield for The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America
2006 Winners:
Saul Cornell for A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America --Winner
Carolyn N. Long for her Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures -- Honorable Mention
2005 Winner:
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance by Richard J. Ellis -- Winner
Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy, by John W. Johnson -- Honorable Mention
2004 Winner:
John M. Ferren for Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge -- Winner
Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution by Paul Douglas Newman -- Honorable Mention
2003:
Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware for their Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
2002 (two winners):
Stuart Banner for his The Death Penalty: An American History
Lawrence M. Friedman for his American Law in the 20th Century
2001
Elizabeth Urban Alexander for her Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction
A prize to encourage and reward excellent American historical fiction is a natural element in our effort to make the rich history of America accessible to the educated general reader. The David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction is offered annually to the best book in American historical fiction that is both excellent fiction and excellent history. Any press may publish the work, with the exceptions that the book may not be self-published or published by a subsidized publisher.
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History or Biography
This prize is made annually to be the best university press book in American legal history or biography that is accessible to the educated general public, rooted in sound scholarship, and with themes that touch upon matters of general concern to the American public, past or present.
2010 Winners
Ann Weisgarber for The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Robin Oliveira for My Name is Mary Sutter -- Honorable Mention
Kelli Carmean for Creekside: An Archeological Novel -- Special Mention
Jackson Taylor for The Blue Orchard -- Special Mention
2009 Winners:
Edward Rutherfurd for his New York: The Novel
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman for In the Lion’s Den: A Novel of the Civil War -- Special Mention
Jamie Ford for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet -- Special Mention
2008 Winners:
Kathleen Kent for The Heretic’s Daughter: A Novel -- Winner
Elisabeth Payne Rosen for Hallam’s War -- Honorable Mention
Jack Fuller’s Abbeville -- Special Mention
2007 Winner:
Kurt Andersen for his Heyday, a novel
2006 Winner:
Sheldon Russell for his Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush
2005 Winner:
Madison House: A Novel by Peter Donahue
2004 Winner:
Linda Busby Parker for her Seven Laurels: A Novel -- Winner
Sanora Babb, for Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel -- Honorable Mention
2003:
Robert J. Begiebing for his Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction: A Novel
2002 -- No award given
2001 -- No award given
Langum Prize for Legal History
2008 Winners:Ernest Freeberg for Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent -- Winner
Peter Charles Hoffer for the book, The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr -- Honorable Mention
2007 Winner:
Bruce J. Dierenfield for The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America
2006 Winners:
Saul Cornell for A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America --Winner
Carolyn N. Long for her Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures -- Honorable Mention
2005 Winner:
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance by Richard J. Ellis -- Winner
Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy, by John W. Johnson -- Honorable Mention
2004 Winner:
John M. Ferren for Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge -- Winner
Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution by Paul Douglas Newman -- Honorable Mention
2003:
Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware for their Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
2002 (two winners):
Stuart Banner for his The Death Penalty: An American History
Lawrence M. Friedman for his American Law in the 20th Century
2001
Elizabeth Urban Alexander for her Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
Thursday, January 13, 2011
National Jewish Book Awards (2010)
2010 Info from Jewish Book Council accessed 1/13/11, previous years (1949-2008) available here. Information about the award from Wikipedia.
The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature and is recognized as the most prestigious. The awards, presented by category, are designed to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to further literary creativity and to encourage the reading of worthwhile titles.
The National Jewish Book Awards program began in 1948 when the Jewish Book Council presented awards to authors of Jewish books at its annual meeting. The first book awarded the prize was Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Harry Austryn Wolfson. Among the past notable literary winners are Howard Fast, Chaim Grade, Samuel Heilman, John Hersey, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, I.B. Singer, and Elie Wiesel.
In addition to the category awards, every year since 2002, one non-fiction book has been selected as the winner of the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. The past three winners have been Dr. Michael Oren, Dr. Jonathan Sarna and Dr. Amos Oz. With such prominent, influential thinkers participating in the program, the awards have a significant impact on American Jewish cultural life.
2010 National Jewish Book Awards
Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award
When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
Jewish Book Council IMPACT Award
Harold Grinspoon
Jewish Book Council Lifetime Achievement Award
Cynthia Ozick
American Jewish Studies Celebrate 350 Award
Winner:
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman
Finalist:
Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora by Rebecca Kobrin
Anthologies and Collections
Winner:
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, Judith R. Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin, eds.
Finalists:
Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging by Derek Rubin, ed.
Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 2, Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) by Simon J. Bronner, ed.
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
Winner:
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris
Finalists:
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero by Abigail Green
Backing Into Forward by Jules Feiffer
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Winner:
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar
Finalists:
Rabbi Harvey vs. The Wisdom Kid: A Graphic Novel of Dueling Jewish Folktales in the Wild West
by Steve Sheinkin
The Orphan Rescue by Anne Dublin
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
Winner:
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation by Martin Fletcher
Finalists:
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz
Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary by Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman
Education and Jewish Identity
Winner:
Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary by Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman
Finalists:
Ramah at 60: Impact and Innovation by Mitchell Cohen, Jeffrey S. Kress, eds.
Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century by Jack Wertheimer
Fiction
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
Winner:
To the End of the Land by David Grossman; Jessica Cohen, trans.
Finalists:
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Instructions (McSweeney’s) by Adam Levin
Nemesis by Philip Roth
History
Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
Winner:
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History by David B. Ruderman
Finalists:
Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex by Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner
Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidim by David Assaf
Holocaust
Winner:
Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher R. Browning
Finalists:
The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide by Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans.
The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust by Guy Miron and Shlomit Shulhani, eds.
Illustrated Children’s Books
Louis Posner Memorial Award
Winner:
The Rooster Prince of Breslov by Ann Redisch Stampler; Eugene Yelchin, illus.
Finalists:
Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book by Adapted by Sarah Gershman; Kristina Swarner, illus.
Feivel's Flying Horses by Heidi Smith Hyde; Johanna van der Sterre, illus
Modern Jewish Thought & Experience
Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
Winner:
The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot: The Complete Tisha B'Av Service with Commentary by Rabbi Joseph
B. Soloveitchik by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Finalists:
The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life by David Hazony
Silver from the Land of Israel: A New Light On The Sabbath And Holidays From Rabbi Abraham Kook by Rabbi Chanan Morrison
Outstanding Debut Fiction
Foundation for Jewish Culture's Goldberg Prize
Winner:
Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz
Finalist:
Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
Scholarship
Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award
Winner:
From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron
Finalists:
Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin
Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative by Yael S. Feldman
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, And Ecclesiastes: A Translation With Commentary by Robert Alter
Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution by Jeremy Stolow
Sephardic Culture
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy
Winner:
Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin
Finalist:
The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer
Women’s Studies
Barbara Dobkin Award
Winner:Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One by Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans.
Finalists:
In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities by Lori Hope Lefkovitz
A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, Rachel Kranson, eds.
Writing Based on Archival Material
The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award
Winner:
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer
Finalists:
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman
Syrian Jewry in Transition, 1840–1880 by Yaron Harel; Dena Ordan, trans.
The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature and is recognized as the most prestigious. The awards, presented by category, are designed to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to further literary creativity and to encourage the reading of worthwhile titles.
The National Jewish Book Awards program began in 1948 when the Jewish Book Council presented awards to authors of Jewish books at its annual meeting. The first book awarded the prize was Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Harry Austryn Wolfson. Among the past notable literary winners are Howard Fast, Chaim Grade, Samuel Heilman, John Hersey, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, I.B. Singer, and Elie Wiesel.
In addition to the category awards, every year since 2002, one non-fiction book has been selected as the winner of the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. The past three winners have been Dr. Michael Oren, Dr. Jonathan Sarna and Dr. Amos Oz. With such prominent, influential thinkers participating in the program, the awards have a significant impact on American Jewish cultural life.
2010 National Jewish Book Awards
Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award
When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
Jewish Book Council IMPACT Award
Harold Grinspoon
Jewish Book Council Lifetime Achievement Award
Cynthia Ozick
American Jewish Studies Celebrate 350 Award
Winner:
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman
Finalist:
Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora by Rebecca Kobrin
Anthologies and Collections
Winner:
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, Judith R. Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin, eds.
Finalists:
Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging by Derek Rubin, ed.
Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 2, Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) by Simon J. Bronner, ed.
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
Winner:
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris
Finalists:
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero by Abigail Green
Backing Into Forward by Jules Feiffer
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Winner:
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar
Finalists:
Rabbi Harvey vs. The Wisdom Kid: A Graphic Novel of Dueling Jewish Folktales in the Wild West
by Steve Sheinkin
The Orphan Rescue by Anne Dublin
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
Winner:
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation by Martin Fletcher
Finalists:
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz
Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary by Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman
Education and Jewish Identity
Winner:
Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary by Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman
Finalists:
Ramah at 60: Impact and Innovation by Mitchell Cohen, Jeffrey S. Kress, eds.
Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century by Jack Wertheimer
Fiction
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
Winner:
To the End of the Land by David Grossman; Jessica Cohen, trans.
Finalists:
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Instructions (McSweeney’s) by Adam Levin
Nemesis by Philip Roth
History
Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
Winner:
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History by David B. Ruderman
Finalists:
Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex by Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner
Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidim by David Assaf
Holocaust
Winner:
Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher R. Browning
Finalists:
The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide by Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans.
The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust by Guy Miron and Shlomit Shulhani, eds.
Illustrated Children’s Books
Louis Posner Memorial Award
Winner:
The Rooster Prince of Breslov by Ann Redisch Stampler; Eugene Yelchin, illus.
Finalists:
Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book by Adapted by Sarah Gershman; Kristina Swarner, illus.
Feivel's Flying Horses by Heidi Smith Hyde; Johanna van der Sterre, illus
Modern Jewish Thought & Experience
Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
Winner:
The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot: The Complete Tisha B'Av Service with Commentary by Rabbi Joseph
B. Soloveitchik by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Finalists:
The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life by David Hazony
Silver from the Land of Israel: A New Light On The Sabbath And Holidays From Rabbi Abraham Kook by Rabbi Chanan Morrison
Outstanding Debut Fiction
Foundation for Jewish Culture's Goldberg Prize
Winner:
Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz
Finalist:
Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
Scholarship
Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award
Winner:
From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron
Finalists:
Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin
Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative by Yael S. Feldman
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, And Ecclesiastes: A Translation With Commentary by Robert Alter
Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution by Jeremy Stolow
Sephardic Culture
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy
Winner:
Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin
Finalist:
The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer
Women’s Studies
Barbara Dobkin Award
Winner:Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One by Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans.
Finalists:
In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities by Lori Hope Lefkovitz
A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, Rachel Kranson, eds.
Writing Based on Archival Material
The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award
Winner:
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer
Finalists:
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman
Syrian Jewry in Transition, 1840–1880 by Yaron Harel; Dena Ordan, trans.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Newbery, Caldecott, Morris, Printz, ALA Awards 2010
2011 Info from Shelf-Awareness, accessed 1/11/11
Two Debut Talents Win Newbery, Caldecott
Clare Vanderpool won the 2011 Newbery Medal for her debut novel, Moon over Manifest (Delacorte/Random House), about 12-year-old Abilene Tucker, who visits her father's hometown in 1936 Kansas. The Depression-era story line alternates with a narrative set during World War I, and the book is inspired by tales the author heard as a child. The Association of Booksellers for Children chose it as a 2010 New Voices Pick. The last time a debut novel received the Newbery Medal was 1980, when Joan Blos won for A Gathering of Days. Vanderpool is a former bookseller for Watermark Books, Wichita, Kan.
Erin E. Stead, a first-time illustrator, won the 2011 Caldecott Medal for A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook/Macmillan); her husband, Philip C. Stead, wrote the text for the picture book. Elderly Amos McGee rides the bus to the zoo, where he plays chess with the elephant and spends time with his other animal friends. But when Amos falls ill, his zoo pals take the bus to visit him and lift his spirits. The most recent first-time illustrator to win a Caldecott Medal before this was David Diaz in 1995, for his work on Eve Bunting's Smoky Night.
Four Newbery Honor Books were named: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad/HarperCollins), which also received the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award and last week won the Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction, and was also a National Book Award Finalist; Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House), who received a Newbery Honor in 2000 for her debut novel, Our Only May Amelia (HarperCollins); Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet/Abrams); and Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin). Last year, Sidman's poems in Red Sings from Treetops inspired Caldecott Honor illustrations by Pamela Zagarenski.
Two Caldecott Honor Books also were selected: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown), which also received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Collier was awarded a 2006 Caldecott Honor for Rosa, written by Nikki Giovanni (Holt). The other Caldecott Honor book is Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick). Stein received the 2008 Ezra Jack Keats Author Award for his book Leaves (Putnam/Penguin).
The Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in YA literature went to Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown), which was also a National Book Award finalist. Four Printz Honor Books were chosen: Stolen by Lucy Christopher (Chicken House/Scholastic); Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Knopf); Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook/Macmillan); and Nothing by Janne Teller (Atheneum/S&S).
2010 Awards
Rebecca Stead Wins Newbery; Jerry Pinkney Wins Caldecott
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb/Random House) has won the 2010 Newbery Medal. This second novel by Stead (First Light) takes place in the Upper West Side Manhattan neighborhood of her childhood, where the corner homeless man becomes 12-year-old heroine Miranda's "laughing man." In our review, we said, "Stead opens up the profound possibilities in a city where a neighborhood can contain an entire world."
The 2010 Caldecott Medal went to Jerry Pinkney for his wordless piéce de resistance set on the East African Serengeti, The Lion and the Mouse (Little, Brown). At the ALA Annual conference in Chicago last summer, Pinkney said that this has always been his favorite of Aesop's fables. Our review called it "bookmaking at its best."
Four Newbery Honors were awarded: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Melanie Kroupa/FSG), which won the National Book Award (Hoose first learned of Claudette Colvin while researching his book We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History, which was an NBA finalist); a debut novel, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Holt/Macmillan); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown), lushly illustrated with occasional full-color pictures by the author; and The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (Blue Sky/Scholastic), in which funny moments balance the sorrows of the Civil War, from the author of Freak the Mighty.
Both Caldecott honors went to artists who illustrated someone else's text: Marla Frazee for All the World, written by Liz Garton Scanlon (Beach Lane/S&S); and Pamela Zagarenski for Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Libba Bray won the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Going Bovine (Delacorte/Random House), about a 16-year-old diagnosed with Mad Cow disease who takes off on a road trip in search of a cure with a Sancho Panza-style sidekick he meets in the hospital. Four Printz Honors were given: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (Holt/Macmillan), which was also a National Book Award finalist; The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (S&S); Punkzilla by Adam Rapp (Candlewick); and Tales from the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes (Viking/Penguin).
The William C. Morris Award for best debut YA novel went to Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The committee named four honor books: Ash by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown); Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown); The Everafter by Amy Huntley (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins); and Hold Still by Nina LaCour (Dutton/Penguin).
Heiligman's Charles and Emma also won the inaugural YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award.
The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults was awarded to Jim Murphy, and Lois Lowry was chosen to deliver the 2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, for "the most distinguished book for beginning readers," went to Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes (RAW Junior/Toon). There were four Geisel Honor books: I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold (Scholastic), whose Hi! Fly Guy was a 2006 Geisel Honor book, the first year the award was given; Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith (RAW Junior/Toon), author of the Bone series; Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee (Houghton); and Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan, illustrated by R.W. Alley (Dial).
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal was awarded to Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick). The three Sibert honor books were The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani (Charlesbridge); Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca (Richard Jackson/Atheneum/S&S); and Phillip Hoose's Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Kroupa/FSG).
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award for best work of translation went to A Faraway Island by Annika Thor, translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck (Delacorte/Random). There were three Batchelder Honors: Big Wolf and Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Bedrick (Enchanted Lion); Eidi by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated by Kathryn Mahaffy (FSG); and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, translated by Cathy Hirano (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine).
The Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production went to Live Oak Media, producer of Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Harry Bliss, narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
Walter Dean Myers won the inaugural Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Awards. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson won the Coretta Scott King Author award for Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda/ Lerner); and Charles R. Smith Jr. won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for My People, written by Langston Hughes (Ginee Seo/ Atheneum). The John Steptoe Award for New Talent went to Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River (S&S/Aladdin).
Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf/Random House) was named a CSK Author Honor Book; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Langston Hughes (Jump at the Sun/Disney) was a CSK Illustrator Honor Book.
The Pura Belpré Illustrator Award went to Rafael López for Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day--Celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros, with text by Pat Mora (Rayo /HarperCollins). Julia Alvarez won the Pura Belpré Author Award for Return to Sender (Knopf/Random House).
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz (Marshall Cavendish) was a Pura Belpré Honor Book for both text and illustration. The other two illustration honors went to Yuyi Morales for My Abuelita, with text by Tony Johnston (Harcourt); and John Parra for Gracias Thanks, written by Pat Mora (Lee & Low). The second Pura Belpré Author Honor book was Federico García Lorca by Georgina Lázaro, illustrated by Enrique S. Moreiro (Lectorum).
The three Schneider Family Book Awards, which honor an author or illustrator for "a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences" and which come with a $5,000 prize, were given to Django by Bonnie Christensen (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook) in the children's book category; Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin (S&S) for middle grade; and Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic) won for teens. --Jennifer M. Brown
Two Debut Talents Win Newbery, Caldecott
Clare Vanderpool won the 2011 Newbery Medal for her debut novel, Moon over Manifest (Delacorte/Random House), about 12-year-old Abilene Tucker, who visits her father's hometown in 1936 Kansas. The Depression-era story line alternates with a narrative set during World War I, and the book is inspired by tales the author heard as a child. The Association of Booksellers for Children chose it as a 2010 New Voices Pick. The last time a debut novel received the Newbery Medal was 1980, when Joan Blos won for A Gathering of Days. Vanderpool is a former bookseller for Watermark Books, Wichita, Kan.
Erin E. Stead, a first-time illustrator, won the 2011 Caldecott Medal for A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook/Macmillan); her husband, Philip C. Stead, wrote the text for the picture book. Elderly Amos McGee rides the bus to the zoo, where he plays chess with the elephant and spends time with his other animal friends. But when Amos falls ill, his zoo pals take the bus to visit him and lift his spirits. The most recent first-time illustrator to win a Caldecott Medal before this was David Diaz in 1995, for his work on Eve Bunting's Smoky Night.
Four Newbery Honor Books were named: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad/HarperCollins), which also received the 2011 Coretta Scott King Author Award and last week won the Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction, and was also a National Book Award Finalist; Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House), who received a Newbery Honor in 2000 for her debut novel, Our Only May Amelia (HarperCollins); Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet/Abrams); and Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin). Last year, Sidman's poems in Red Sings from Treetops inspired Caldecott Honor illustrations by Pamela Zagarenski.
Two Caldecott Honor Books also were selected: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown), which also received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Collier was awarded a 2006 Caldecott Honor for Rosa, written by Nikki Giovanni (Holt). The other Caldecott Honor book is Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick). Stein received the 2008 Ezra Jack Keats Author Award for his book Leaves (Putnam/Penguin).
The Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in YA literature went to Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown), which was also a National Book Award finalist. Four Printz Honor Books were chosen: Stolen by Lucy Christopher (Chicken House/Scholastic); Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Knopf); Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook/Macmillan); and Nothing by Janne Teller (Atheneum/S&S).
2010 Awards
Rebecca Stead Wins Newbery; Jerry Pinkney Wins Caldecott
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb/Random House) has won the 2010 Newbery Medal. This second novel by Stead (First Light) takes place in the Upper West Side Manhattan neighborhood of her childhood, where the corner homeless man becomes 12-year-old heroine Miranda's "laughing man." In our review, we said, "Stead opens up the profound possibilities in a city where a neighborhood can contain an entire world."
The 2010 Caldecott Medal went to Jerry Pinkney for his wordless piéce de resistance set on the East African Serengeti, The Lion and the Mouse (Little, Brown). At the ALA Annual conference in Chicago last summer, Pinkney said that this has always been his favorite of Aesop's fables. Our review called it "bookmaking at its best."
Four Newbery Honors were awarded: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Melanie Kroupa/FSG), which won the National Book Award (Hoose first learned of Claudette Colvin while researching his book We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History, which was an NBA finalist); a debut novel, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Holt/Macmillan); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown), lushly illustrated with occasional full-color pictures by the author; and The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (Blue Sky/Scholastic), in which funny moments balance the sorrows of the Civil War, from the author of Freak the Mighty.
Both Caldecott honors went to artists who illustrated someone else's text: Marla Frazee for All the World, written by Liz Garton Scanlon (Beach Lane/S&S); and Pamela Zagarenski for Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Libba Bray won the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Going Bovine (Delacorte/Random House), about a 16-year-old diagnosed with Mad Cow disease who takes off on a road trip in search of a cure with a Sancho Panza-style sidekick he meets in the hospital. Four Printz Honors were given: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (Holt/Macmillan), which was also a National Book Award finalist; The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (S&S); Punkzilla by Adam Rapp (Candlewick); and Tales from the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes (Viking/Penguin).
The William C. Morris Award for best debut YA novel went to Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The committee named four honor books: Ash by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown); Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown); The Everafter by Amy Huntley (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins); and Hold Still by Nina LaCour (Dutton/Penguin).
Heiligman's Charles and Emma also won the inaugural YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award.
The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults was awarded to Jim Murphy, and Lois Lowry was chosen to deliver the 2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, for "the most distinguished book for beginning readers," went to Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes (RAW Junior/Toon). There were four Geisel Honor books: I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold (Scholastic), whose Hi! Fly Guy was a 2006 Geisel Honor book, the first year the award was given; Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith (RAW Junior/Toon), author of the Bone series; Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee (Houghton); and Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan, illustrated by R.W. Alley (Dial).
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal was awarded to Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick). The three Sibert honor books were The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani (Charlesbridge); Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca (Richard Jackson/Atheneum/S&S); and Phillip Hoose's Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Kroupa/FSG).
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award for best work of translation went to A Faraway Island by Annika Thor, translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck (Delacorte/Random). There were three Batchelder Honors: Big Wolf and Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, translated by Claudia Bedrick (Enchanted Lion); Eidi by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated by Kathryn Mahaffy (FSG); and Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, translated by Cathy Hirano (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine).
The Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production went to Live Oak Media, producer of Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Harry Bliss, narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
Walter Dean Myers won the inaugural Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Awards. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson won the Coretta Scott King Author award for Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda/ Lerner); and Charles R. Smith Jr. won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for My People, written by Langston Hughes (Ginee Seo/ Atheneum). The John Steptoe Award for New Talent went to Kekla Magoon, author of The Rock and the River (S&S/Aladdin).
Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf/Random House) was named a CSK Author Honor Book; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Langston Hughes (Jump at the Sun/Disney) was a CSK Illustrator Honor Book.
The Pura Belpré Illustrator Award went to Rafael López for Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day--Celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros, with text by Pat Mora (Rayo /HarperCollins). Julia Alvarez won the Pura Belpré Author Award for Return to Sender (Knopf/Random House).
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz (Marshall Cavendish) was a Pura Belpré Honor Book for both text and illustration. The other two illustration honors went to Yuyi Morales for My Abuelita, with text by Tony Johnston (Harcourt); and John Parra for Gracias Thanks, written by Pat Mora (Lee & Low). The second Pura Belpré Author Honor book was Federico García Lorca by Georgina Lázaro, illustrated by Enrique S. Moreiro (Lectorum).
The three Schneider Family Book Awards, which honor an author or illustrator for "a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences" and which come with a $5,000 prize, were given to Django by Bonnie Christensen (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook) in the children's book category; Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin (S&S) for middle grade; and Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic) won for teens. --Jennifer M. Brown
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
Friday, January 7, 2011
Writers' Trust of Canada prize (2009-10)
2010 info from Quill & Quire accessed 1/7/11
2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing shortlist
Tim Cook for The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie
Shelagh D. Grant for Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
Lawrence Martin for Harperland: The Politics of Control
Anna Porter for The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future
Doug Saunders for Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
The winner will be announced on Feb. 16 at the Politics and the Pen Gala in Ottawa.
The 2009 shortlist for the Writers' Trust of Canada prizes, according to the National Post, includes:
Fiction
Fences in Breathing by Nicole Brossard, translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro -- short stories
Eva's Threepenny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz
Nonfiction
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds by Trevor Herriot
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships by Erika Ritter
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin
2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing shortlist
Tim Cook for The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie
Shelagh D. Grant for Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
Lawrence Martin for Harperland: The Politics of Control
Anna Porter for The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future
Doug Saunders for Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
The winner will be announced on Feb. 16 at the Politics and the Pen Gala in Ottawa.
The 2009 shortlist for the Writers' Trust of Canada prizes, according to the National Post, includes:
Fiction
Fences in Breathing by Nicole Brossard, translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro -- short stories
Eva's Threepenny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz
Nonfiction
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds by Trevor Herriot
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships by Erika Ritter
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin
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