Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and wikipedia accessed 6/21/13
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." The award was first given in 1981.
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in using his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's A Separate Peace in 1961
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Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner award after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN voted a boycott on the ground that they were too commercial. It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.
2013 - Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club
Amelia Gray, Threats
Laird Hunt, Kind One
T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It ‘Til It Hurts
Thomas Mallon, Watergate
2012 – Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin
Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance
Steven Millhauser, We Others: New and Selected Stories
2011 – Deborah Eisenberg,
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Good Squad
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
Eric Puchner, Model Home
Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
2010 – Sherman Alexie, War Dances
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
Lorraine Lopéz, Homicide Survivors Picnic
Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
2009 – Joseph O’Neill, Netherland
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ms. Hempel Chronicles
Susan Choi, A Person of Interest
Richard Price, Lush Life
Ron Rash, Serena
2008 – Kate Christensen, The Great Man
Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk
T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories
Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories
2007 – Philip Roth, Everyman
Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar’s Children
2006 – E.L. Doctorow, The March
Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country
William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton
James Salter, Last Night
Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Place
2005 – Ha Jin, War Trash
Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War
2004 – John Updike, The Early Stories 1953–1975
Frederick Barthelme, Elroy Nights
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
Tobias Wolff, Old School
2003 – Sabina Murray, The Caprices
Peter Cameron, The City of Your Final Destination
William Kennedy, Roscoe
Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino
2002 – Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Claire Messud, The Hunters
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
2001 – Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold
Denis Johnson, The Name of the World
Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road
2000 – Ha Jin, Waiting
Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
Ken Kalfus, Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Lily Tuck, Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man
1999 – Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening
Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories
1998 – Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To
Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
1997 – Gina Berriault, Women in their Beds
Daniel Akst, St. Burl’s Obituary
Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy
Ron Hansen, Atticus
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
1996 – Richard Ford, Independence Day
Madison Smart Bell, All Souls’ Rising
William Gass, The Tunnel
Claire Messud, When the World Was Steady
A.J. Verdelle, The Good Negress
1995 – David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Frederich Busch, The Children in the Woods
Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For
Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes
1994 – Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh’s Room at Arles
Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood
Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
Kate Wheeler, Not Where I Started From
1993 – E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
Maureen Howard, Natural History
Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead
1992 – Don DeLillo, Mao II
Stephen Dixon, Frog
Paul Gervais, Extraordinary People
Allan Gurganus, White People
Bradford Morrow, The Almanac Branch
1991 – John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman”s Guide to the Frontier
Steven Millhauser, The Barnum Museum
Joanna Scott, Arrogance
1990 – E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
Russell Banks, Affliction
Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving Brooklyn
1989 – James Salter, Dusk
Mary McGarry Morris,Vanished
Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife and Pacific
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death of Methuselah
1988 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, World’s End
Richard Bausch, Spirits
Alice McDermott, That Night
Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm
Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina
1987 – Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Charles Johnson, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits
1986 – Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife
Grace Paley, Later the Same Day
1985 – Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Donald Hays, The Dixie Association
David Leavitt, Family Dancing
James Purdy, On Glory’s Courses
1984 – John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
Ron Hansen, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
Bernard Malamud, The Stories
Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy
1983 – Toby Olson, Seaview
Maureen Howard, Grace Abounding
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
George Steiner, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
William S. Wilson, Birthplace
1982 – David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Richard Bausch, Take Me Back
Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
1981 – Walter Abish, How German Is It?
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
Walker Percy, The Second Coming
Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Oklahoma Book Award (1990-2011)
From Oklahoma Center for the Book accessed 3/30/11
2011 Finalists
Children/Young Adults
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth—M.J. Alexander—Southwestern Publishing
“Cholhkanat Lowak Ishminti” Spider Brings Fire—Linda Hogan—Chickasaw Nation
Salvaged—Stefne Miller
Mostly Monsterly—Tammi Sauer
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light—Tim Tingle
Design/Illustration
Building One Fire—designed by Carol Haralson—The Cherokee Nation
Proud to be Chickasaw—designed by Skip McKinstry, illustrated by Mike Larsen—Chickasaw Press
Oklahoma National Stockyards—designed by Doug Miller—Mullerhaus Publishing Arts, Inc.
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth—designed by Scott O’Daniel, photography by M.J. Alexander—Southwestern Publishing
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo—designed by Tony Roberts and Julie Rushing, collection photography by Ed Muno—University of Oklahoma Press
Fiction
Stations West—Allison Amend—Louisiana State University Press
With No Steps To Follow—David Allen Barton—Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Cheyenne Madonna—Eddie Chuculate—David R. Godine publisher
God’s Acres—David Gerard—PenUltimate Press
The Insane Train—Sheldon Russell—Minotaur Books publisher
Chasing Lilacs—Carla Stewart—Faith Words publisher
Non-fiction
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe—Kate Buford
Chickasaw Removal—Fuller L. Bumpers, Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., and Amanda L. Paige
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture—edited by Dianna Everett, Jon May, Larry O’Dell, and Linda Wilson
Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals—Gordon Grice
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History—S.C. Gwynne—Scribner
Race and the University: A Memoir—George Henderson—University of Oklahoma Press
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo—Richard C. Rattenbury
Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition—Don Reeves and Chuck Stormes
Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch—Bobby D. Weaver—Texas A&M University Press
Poetry
Spare Parts—Ken Hada—Mongrel Empire Press
Umberto Eco Lost His Gun—Carol Hamilton—Pudding House Publications
Elegy for Trains—Benjamin Myers—Village Books Press
Seeing Rightly with the Heart—Howard Stein—Finishing Line Press
Bird Days—Sheila Tiarks—Village Books Press
Oklahoma Baroque—Renata Treitel—Out On A Limb Publishing
Oklahoma Cantos—Ron Wallace—TJMF Publishing
Fiction
1990 • Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister
1991 • Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit
1992 • Robert L. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark
1993 • Rilla Askew, Strange Business
1994 • Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist
1995 • William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice
1996 • Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
1997 • Stewart O’Nan, The Names of the Dead
1998 • Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
1999 • Billie Letts, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
2000 • William Bernhardt, Dark Justice
2001 • Carolyn Hart, Sugarplum Dead
2002 • Douglas Kelley,The Captain’s Wife
2003 • Diane Glancy,The Mask Maker: A Novel
2004 • M.K. Preston, Song of the Bones
2005 • Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved
2006 • David Kent, The Black Jack Conspiracy
2007 • Sheldon Russell, Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush
2008 • Rilla Askew, Harpsong
2009 • Carolyn Wall, Sweeping Up
2010 • Kirk Bjornsgaard, Confessions of a Former Rock Star
Non-Fiction
1990 • Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick
1991 • Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant
1992 • David Morgan, Robert England,and George Humphreys, Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State
1993 • Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon; and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators
1994 • J. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever
1995 • Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
1996 • William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm
1997 • Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey Into the Tall Grass
1998 • John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, Editors; My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
1999 • Bob Burke, From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae
2000 • Michael Wallis, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West
2001 • David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory
2002 • Lydia L. Wyckoff, Editor, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection
2003 • Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape
2004 • Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity
2005 • Ed Cray, Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
2006 • Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time
2007 • Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble, Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition
2008 • Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
2009 • Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith • Full Court Quest: The Girls from Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
2010 • Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Eric Singleton, Anne Morand, Gary Moore, and April Miller, Thomas Gilcrease
Children/Young Adult
1990 • Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Its Kin
1991 • Stan Hoig, A Capital for the Nation
1992 • Jess and Bonnie Speer, Hillback to Boggy
1993 • Anna Myers, Red Dirt Jessie
1994 • Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Cherokee Summer
1995 • Russell G. Davis and Brent Ashabranner, The Choctaw Code
1996 • Anna Myers, Graveyard Girl
1997 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Stone Water
1998 • S. L. Rottman, Hero
1999 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Broken Chords
2000 • Harold Keith, Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing But Net
2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas,Hush Songs
2002 • Molly Levite Griffis,The Rachel Resistance
2003 • Darleen Bailey Beard, The Babbs Switch Story
2004 • Children—Una Belle Townsend, Grady’s in the Silo • Young Adult—Sharon Darrow, The Painters of Lexieville
2005 • Children—Joyce Carol Thomas, The Gospel Cinderella • Young Adult—Molly Levite Griffis, Simon Says
2006 • Anna Myers, Assassin
2007 • Children—Tim Tingle, Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Young Adult—Tim Tharp, Knights of the Hill Country
2008 • Children—Devin Scillian, Pappy’s Handkerchief • Young Adult—P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, Marked: A House of Night Novel
2009 • Anna Myers, Spy
2010 • Children—Tammi Sauer, Chicken Dance • Young Adult—George Edward Stanley, Night Fires
Poetry
1990 • William Kistler, The Elizabeth Sequence
1992 • Carol Hamilton, Once the Dust
1993 • Jim Barnes, The Sawdust War
1994 • Carter Revard, An Eagle Nation
1995 • Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
1996 • Francine Leffler Ringold-Johnson, The Trouble with Voices
1997 • Renata Treitel, translation of Rosita Copioli’s The Blazing Lights of the Sun
1998 • Betty Shipley, Somebody Say Amen
1999 • Mark Cox, Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone
2000 • N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House
2001 • Carolyne Wright,Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
2002 • Ivy Dempsey, The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems
2003 • Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems
2004 • Laura Apol, Crossing the Ladder of Sun
2005 • Francine Leffler Ringold, Still Dancing
2006 • LeAnne Howe, Evidence of Red
2007 • Carl Sennhenn, Travels Through Enchanted Woods
2008 • Sandra Soli, What Trees Know
2009 • Nathen Brown, Two Tables Over
2010 • Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Work is Love Made Visible: Poetry and Family Photographs
Design/Illustration
1990 • David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson
1991 • Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens
1992 • Joe Williams, Woolaroc
1993 • Design—Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence
Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, The Twelve Cats of Christmas
1994 • Deloss McGraw, Fish Story
1995 • Mike Wimmer, All the Places to Love
1996 • Kim Doner, Green Snake Ceremony
1997 • Carol Haralson and Harvey Payne, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass
1998 • Carol Haralson, Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art
1999 • David Fitzgerald, Bison: Monarch of the Plains
2000 • Carol Haralson, Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma
2001 • Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
2002 • Carl Brune, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection
2003 • Murv Jacob, The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals
2004 • Design—Scott Horton and Jim Argo, Family Album: A Centennial Pictorial of the Oklahoma Publishing Company
Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, S is for Sooner
2005 • Carol Haralson, A History of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion
2006 • Design—Carol Haralson, Home: Native People in the Southwest • Illustration—Jon Goodell, Mother, Mother, I Want Another
2007 • Design—Carl Brune, OKC: Second Time Around
Illustration—Jeanne Rorex Bridges, Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
2008 • Design—Carl Brune, Oklahoma: A Portrait of America • Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, What Cats Want for Christmas
2009 • Design—Todd Stewart, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, What Dogs Want for Christmas
2010 • Design—Carol Haralson, Willard Stone • Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, Where to Sleep
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
1990 • Daniel Boorstin—Librarian of Congress Emeritus—native of Tulsa
1991 • Tony Hillerman—award winning mystery writer—native of Sacred Heart
1992 • Savoie Lottinville—Director of the University of Oklahoma Press for 30 years
1993 • Harold Keith—Newbery Award winning children's author—Norman
1994 • N. Scott Momaday—Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa author—native of Lawton
1995 • R.A. Lafferty—Hugo Award winning author—Tulsa
1996 • John Hope Franklin—historian—native of Rentiesville
1997 • S.E. Hinton—author of young adult novels—Tulsa
1998 • Jack Bickham—novelist, teacher and journalist—Norman
1999 • Michael Wallis—historian and biographer—Tulsa
2000 • Bill Wallace—writer of novels for young people—Chickasha
2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas—children and adult fiction author, and playwright—native of Ponca City
2002 • World Literature Today—The University of Oklahoma, Norman
2003 • Joy Harjo—poet and member of the Muscogee Nation—native of Tulsa
2004 • Carolyn Hart—award-winning mystery writer—Oklahoma City
2005 • C.J. Cherryh—Hugo Award winning author—Oklahoma City
2006 • Bob Burke—award-winning historian—Oklahoma City
2007 • Clifton Taulbert—award-winning author—Tulsa
2008 • David Dary—award-winning author—Norman
2009 • Robert J. Conley—Cherokee author—native of Cushing
2010 • David G. Fitzgerald—award-winning photographer—Oklahoma City
Ralph Ellison Award
1995 • Ralph Ellison—National Book Award winner—Oklahoma City
1997 • Angie Debo—“First Lady of Oklahoma History”—Marshall
1999 • Melvin Tolson—poet, journalist, and dramatist—Langston
2000 • Jim Thompson—novelist and screenwriter—Anadarko
2002 • John Berryman—poet, biographer, and editor—McAlester
2004 • Lynn Riggs—playwright and screenwriter—Claremore
2005 • Woody Guthrie—author, illustrator, and songwriter—Okemah
2006 • John Joseph Mathews—Osage novelist and historian—Pawhuska
2007 • Muriel Wright—acclaimed Oklahoma historian—Oklahoma City
2008 • Danney Glenn Goble—acclaimed Oklahoma historian—Oklahoma City
2010 • Stan Hoig—author, journalist, and historian—Edmond
2011 Finalists
Children/Young Adults
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth—M.J. Alexander—Southwestern Publishing
“Cholhkanat Lowak Ishminti” Spider Brings Fire—Linda Hogan—Chickasaw Nation
Salvaged—Stefne Miller
Mostly Monsterly—Tammi Sauer
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light—Tim Tingle
Design/Illustration
Building One Fire—designed by Carol Haralson—The Cherokee Nation
Proud to be Chickasaw—designed by Skip McKinstry, illustrated by Mike Larsen—Chickasaw Press
Oklahoma National Stockyards—designed by Doug Miller—Mullerhaus Publishing Arts, Inc.
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth—designed by Scott O’Daniel, photography by M.J. Alexander—Southwestern Publishing
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo—designed by Tony Roberts and Julie Rushing, collection photography by Ed Muno—University of Oklahoma Press
Fiction
Stations West—Allison Amend—Louisiana State University Press
With No Steps To Follow—David Allen Barton—Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Cheyenne Madonna—Eddie Chuculate—David R. Godine publisher
God’s Acres—David Gerard—PenUltimate Press
The Insane Train—Sheldon Russell—Minotaur Books publisher
Chasing Lilacs—Carla Stewart—Faith Words publisher
Non-fiction
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe—Kate Buford
Chickasaw Removal—Fuller L. Bumpers, Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., and Amanda L. Paige
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture—edited by Dianna Everett, Jon May, Larry O’Dell, and Linda Wilson
Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals—Gordon Grice
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History—S.C. Gwynne—Scribner
Race and the University: A Memoir—George Henderson—University of Oklahoma Press
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo—Richard C. Rattenbury
Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition—Don Reeves and Chuck Stormes
Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch—Bobby D. Weaver—Texas A&M University Press
Poetry
Spare Parts—Ken Hada—Mongrel Empire Press
Umberto Eco Lost His Gun—Carol Hamilton—Pudding House Publications
Elegy for Trains—Benjamin Myers—Village Books Press
Seeing Rightly with the Heart—Howard Stein—Finishing Line Press
Bird Days—Sheila Tiarks—Village Books Press
Oklahoma Baroque—Renata Treitel—Out On A Limb Publishing
Oklahoma Cantos—Ron Wallace—TJMF Publishing
Fiction
1990 • Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister
1991 • Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit
1992 • Robert L. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark
1993 • Rilla Askew, Strange Business
1994 • Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist
1995 • William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice
1996 • Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
1997 • Stewart O’Nan, The Names of the Dead
1998 • Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
1999 • Billie Letts, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
2000 • William Bernhardt, Dark Justice
2001 • Carolyn Hart, Sugarplum Dead
2002 • Douglas Kelley,The Captain’s Wife
2003 • Diane Glancy,The Mask Maker: A Novel
2004 • M.K. Preston, Song of the Bones
2005 • Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved
2006 • David Kent, The Black Jack Conspiracy
2007 • Sheldon Russell, Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush
2008 • Rilla Askew, Harpsong
2009 • Carolyn Wall, Sweeping Up
2010 • Kirk Bjornsgaard, Confessions of a Former Rock Star
Non-Fiction
1990 • Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick
1991 • Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant
1992 • David Morgan, Robert England,and George Humphreys, Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State
1993 • Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon; and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators
1994 • J. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever
1995 • Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
1996 • William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm
1997 • Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey Into the Tall Grass
1998 • John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, Editors; My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
1999 • Bob Burke, From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae
2000 • Michael Wallis, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West
2001 • David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory
2002 • Lydia L. Wyckoff, Editor, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection
2003 • Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape
2004 • Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity
2005 • Ed Cray, Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
2006 • Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time
2007 • Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble, Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition
2008 • Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
2009 • Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith • Full Court Quest: The Girls from Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
2010 • Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Eric Singleton, Anne Morand, Gary Moore, and April Miller, Thomas Gilcrease
Children/Young Adult
1990 • Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Its Kin
1991 • Stan Hoig, A Capital for the Nation
1992 • Jess and Bonnie Speer, Hillback to Boggy
1993 • Anna Myers, Red Dirt Jessie
1994 • Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Cherokee Summer
1995 • Russell G. Davis and Brent Ashabranner, The Choctaw Code
1996 • Anna Myers, Graveyard Girl
1997 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Stone Water
1998 • S. L. Rottman, Hero
1999 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Broken Chords
2000 • Harold Keith, Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing But Net
2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas,Hush Songs
2002 • Molly Levite Griffis,The Rachel Resistance
2003 • Darleen Bailey Beard, The Babbs Switch Story
2004 • Children—Una Belle Townsend, Grady’s in the Silo • Young Adult—Sharon Darrow, The Painters of Lexieville
2005 • Children—Joyce Carol Thomas, The Gospel Cinderella • Young Adult—Molly Levite Griffis, Simon Says
2006 • Anna Myers, Assassin
2007 • Children—Tim Tingle, Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Young Adult—Tim Tharp, Knights of the Hill Country
2008 • Children—Devin Scillian, Pappy’s Handkerchief • Young Adult—P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, Marked: A House of Night Novel
2009 • Anna Myers, Spy
2010 • Children—Tammi Sauer, Chicken Dance • Young Adult—George Edward Stanley, Night Fires
Poetry
1990 • William Kistler, The Elizabeth Sequence
1992 • Carol Hamilton, Once the Dust
1993 • Jim Barnes, The Sawdust War
1994 • Carter Revard, An Eagle Nation
1995 • Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
1996 • Francine Leffler Ringold-Johnson, The Trouble with Voices
1997 • Renata Treitel, translation of Rosita Copioli’s The Blazing Lights of the Sun
1998 • Betty Shipley, Somebody Say Amen
1999 • Mark Cox, Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone
2000 • N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House
2001 • Carolyne Wright,Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
2002 • Ivy Dempsey, The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems
2003 • Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems
2004 • Laura Apol, Crossing the Ladder of Sun
2005 • Francine Leffler Ringold, Still Dancing
2006 • LeAnne Howe, Evidence of Red
2007 • Carl Sennhenn, Travels Through Enchanted Woods
2008 • Sandra Soli, What Trees Know
2009 • Nathen Brown, Two Tables Over
2010 • Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Work is Love Made Visible: Poetry and Family Photographs
Design/Illustration
1990 • David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson
1991 • Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens
1992 • Joe Williams, Woolaroc
1993 • Design—Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence
Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, The Twelve Cats of Christmas
1994 • Deloss McGraw, Fish Story
1995 • Mike Wimmer, All the Places to Love
1996 • Kim Doner, Green Snake Ceremony
1997 • Carol Haralson and Harvey Payne, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass
1998 • Carol Haralson, Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art
1999 • David Fitzgerald, Bison: Monarch of the Plains
2000 • Carol Haralson, Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma
2001 • Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
2002 • Carl Brune, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection
2003 • Murv Jacob, The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals
2004 • Design—Scott Horton and Jim Argo, Family Album: A Centennial Pictorial of the Oklahoma Publishing Company
Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, S is for Sooner
2005 • Carol Haralson, A History of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion
2006 • Design—Carol Haralson, Home: Native People in the Southwest • Illustration—Jon Goodell, Mother, Mother, I Want Another
2007 • Design—Carl Brune, OKC: Second Time Around
Illustration—Jeanne Rorex Bridges, Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
2008 • Design—Carl Brune, Oklahoma: A Portrait of America • Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, What Cats Want for Christmas
2009 • Design—Todd Stewart, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, What Dogs Want for Christmas
2010 • Design—Carol Haralson, Willard Stone • Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, Where to Sleep
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
1990 • Daniel Boorstin—Librarian of Congress Emeritus—native of Tulsa
1991 • Tony Hillerman—award winning mystery writer—native of Sacred Heart
1992 • Savoie Lottinville—Director of the University of Oklahoma Press for 30 years
1993 • Harold Keith—Newbery Award winning children's author—Norman
1994 • N. Scott Momaday—Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa author—native of Lawton
1995 • R.A. Lafferty—Hugo Award winning author—Tulsa
1996 • John Hope Franklin—historian—native of Rentiesville
1997 • S.E. Hinton—author of young adult novels—Tulsa
1998 • Jack Bickham—novelist, teacher and journalist—Norman
1999 • Michael Wallis—historian and biographer—Tulsa
2000 • Bill Wallace—writer of novels for young people—Chickasha
2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas—children and adult fiction author, and playwright—native of Ponca City
2002 • World Literature Today—The University of Oklahoma, Norman
2003 • Joy Harjo—poet and member of the Muscogee Nation—native of Tulsa
2004 • Carolyn Hart—award-winning mystery writer—Oklahoma City
2005 • C.J. Cherryh—Hugo Award winning author—Oklahoma City
2006 • Bob Burke—award-winning historian—Oklahoma City
2007 • Clifton Taulbert—award-winning author—Tulsa
2008 • David Dary—award-winning author—Norman
2009 • Robert J. Conley—Cherokee author—native of Cushing
2010 • David G. Fitzgerald—award-winning photographer—Oklahoma City
Ralph Ellison Award
1995 • Ralph Ellison—National Book Award winner—Oklahoma City
1997 • Angie Debo—“First Lady of Oklahoma History”—Marshall
1999 • Melvin Tolson—poet, journalist, and dramatist—Langston
2000 • Jim Thompson—novelist and screenwriter—Anadarko
2002 • John Berryman—poet, biographer, and editor—McAlester
2004 • Lynn Riggs—playwright and screenwriter—Claremore
2005 • Woody Guthrie—author, illustrator, and songwriter—Okemah
2006 • John Joseph Mathews—Osage novelist and historian—Pawhuska
2007 • Muriel Wright—acclaimed Oklahoma historian—Oklahoma City
2008 • Danney Glenn Goble—acclaimed Oklahoma historian—Oklahoma City
2010 • Stan Hoig—author, journalist, and historian—Edmond
Louisiana Literary Award (1949-2011)
From Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans accessed 3/30/11
The Louisiana Literary Award was established by the Louisiana Library Association in 1948 and was presented for the first time in 1949. It is intended to "promote interest in books about Louisiana and to encourage their production." A primary criterion for selection is that books contribute to the permanent record of the State of Louisiana.
2011
Leo Honeycutt. Edwin Edwards, Governor of Louisiana, An Authorized Biography
Recipients
1949 Ballowe, Hewitt L. "Creole Folk-Tales: Stories of the Louisiana Marsh Country"
1950 Chase, John Churchill. "Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans".
1951 Tillery, Carlyle. "Red Bone Woman"
1952 Tallant, Robert. "The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans"
1953 Kendall, John Smith.
1954 McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard, ed. "Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana"
1955 No award
1956 Lowery, George H. "Louisiana Birds"
1957 Sindler, Allan P. "Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics, 1920-1952"
1958 Roland, Charles P. "Louisiana Sugar Plantations during the American Civil War"
1959 Duffy, John. "The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana, Vol. 1"
1960 No award
1961 Cohn, Isidore, and Hermann Deutsch. "Rudolph Matas: A Biography of One of the Great Pioneers in Surgery"
1962 Brooks, Charles B. "The Siege of New Orleans"
1963 Post, Lauren. "Cajun Sketches from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana"
1964 Winters, John D. "The Civil War in Louisiana"
1965 Cassidy, Vincent H., and Amos E. Simpson. "Henry Watkins Allen of Louisiana"
1966 Holmes, Jack D. L. "Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799"
1967 Dyer, John P. "Tulane: The Biography of a University, 1834-1965"
1968 Rose, Al, and Edmond Souchon. "New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album"
1969 No award
1970 Williams, T. Harry. "Huey Long"
1971 McCants, Dorothea Olga, tr. and ed. "They Came to Louisiana: Letters of a Catholic Mission, 1854-1882"
1972 Gaines, Ernest J. "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
1973 Brown, Clair A. "Wildflowers of Louisiana and Adjoining States"
1974 Feibleman, Peter S. "The Bayous"
1975 Lowery, George H. "The Mammals of Louisiana and Its Adjacent Waters"
1976 Taylor, Joe Gray. "Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877"
1977 Fontenot, Mary Alice, and Paul B. Freeland. "
1978 Percy, Walker. "Lancelot"
Mills, Gary B. "The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color"
1979 Marquis, Donald M. "In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz"
1980 Edmonds, David C. "Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwest Louisiana, October - December 1863"
1981 Toole, John Kennedy. "A Confederacy of Dunces"
1981 Cable, Mary. "Lost New Orleans"
1982 Lockwood, C. C. "Atchafalaya: America's Largest River Basin Swamp"
1983 Segura, Chris. "Marshland Brace: Two Louisiana Stories"
Gleason, David King. "Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area"
1984 Bush, Robert. "Grace King: A Southern Destiny"
1985 Cutrer, Thomas W. "Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942"
1986 Hewat, Alan V. "Lady's Time"
1987 Reed, Ed. "Requiem for a Kingfish"
1988 Percy, Walker. "The Thanatos Syndrome"
1989 Evans, Eli N. "Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate"
1990 Dundee, Harold A., Douglas A. Rossman, and Eugene C. Beckham. "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana"
1991 Corrington, John William. "The Collected Stories of John William Corrington"
1992 Stones, Margaret. "Flora of Louisiana: Watercolor Drawings"
1993 Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. "Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century"
1994 Gaines, Ernest J. "A Lesson Before Dying"
1995 Boggs, Lindy. "Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Lady"
1996 Fairclough, Adam. "Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972"
1997 Upton, Dell, ed. "Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans [Madaline Edwards]"
1998 Poesch, Jessie J., and Barbara SoRelle Bacot, eds. "Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940: The Historic American Buildings Survey"
1999 Holt, Kimberly Willis. "My Louisiana Sky"
2000 Tregle, Joseph G. Jr. "Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities"
2001 Bacot, H. Parrott, et al. "Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist"
2002 Fernandez, Mark F. "From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System 1712-1862"
2003 Bankston, Carl L. III, and Stephen J. Caldas. "A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana"
2004 No award.
2005 No award.
2006 Follett, Richard. "The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860"
2007 Holt, Kimberly Willis. "Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family"
2008 Folse, John D. "After the Hunt: Louisiana's Authoritative Collection of Wild Game & Game Fish Cookery"
2009 No award.
2010 Roahen, Sara. "Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table"
The Louisiana Literary Award was established by the Louisiana Library Association in 1948 and was presented for the first time in 1949. It is intended to "promote interest in books about Louisiana and to encourage their production." A primary criterion for selection is that books contribute to the permanent record of the State of Louisiana.
2011
Leo Honeycutt. Edwin Edwards, Governor of Louisiana, An Authorized Biography
Recipients
1949 Ballowe, Hewitt L. "Creole Folk-Tales: Stories of the Louisiana Marsh Country"
1950 Chase, John Churchill. "Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans".
1951 Tillery, Carlyle. "Red Bone Woman"
1952 Tallant, Robert. "The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans"
1953 Kendall, John Smith.
1954 McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard, ed. "Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana"
1955 No award
1956 Lowery, George H. "Louisiana Birds"
1957 Sindler, Allan P. "Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics, 1920-1952"
1958 Roland, Charles P. "Louisiana Sugar Plantations during the American Civil War"
1959 Duffy, John. "The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana, Vol. 1"
1960 No award
1961 Cohn, Isidore, and Hermann Deutsch. "Rudolph Matas: A Biography of One of the Great Pioneers in Surgery"
1962 Brooks, Charles B. "The Siege of New Orleans"
1963 Post, Lauren. "Cajun Sketches from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana"
1964 Winters, John D. "The Civil War in Louisiana"
1965 Cassidy, Vincent H., and Amos E. Simpson. "Henry Watkins Allen of Louisiana"
1966 Holmes, Jack D. L. "Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799"
1967 Dyer, John P. "Tulane: The Biography of a University, 1834-1965"
1968 Rose, Al, and Edmond Souchon. "New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album"
1969 No award
1970 Williams, T. Harry. "Huey Long"
1971 McCants, Dorothea Olga, tr. and ed. "They Came to Louisiana: Letters of a Catholic Mission, 1854-1882"
1972 Gaines, Ernest J. "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
1973 Brown, Clair A. "Wildflowers of Louisiana and Adjoining States"
1974 Feibleman, Peter S. "The Bayous"
1975 Lowery, George H. "The Mammals of Louisiana and Its Adjacent Waters"
1976 Taylor, Joe Gray. "Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877"
1977 Fontenot, Mary Alice, and Paul B. Freeland. "
1978 Percy, Walker. "Lancelot"
Mills, Gary B. "The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color"
1979 Marquis, Donald M. "In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz"
1980 Edmonds, David C. "Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwest Louisiana, October - December 1863"
1981 Toole, John Kennedy. "A Confederacy of Dunces"
1981 Cable, Mary. "Lost New Orleans"
1982 Lockwood, C. C. "Atchafalaya: America's Largest River Basin Swamp"
1983 Segura, Chris. "Marshland Brace: Two Louisiana Stories"
Gleason, David King. "Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area"
1984 Bush, Robert. "Grace King: A Southern Destiny"
1985 Cutrer, Thomas W. "Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942"
1986 Hewat, Alan V. "Lady's Time"
1987 Reed, Ed. "Requiem for a Kingfish"
1988 Percy, Walker. "The Thanatos Syndrome"
1989 Evans, Eli N. "Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate"
1990 Dundee, Harold A., Douglas A. Rossman, and Eugene C. Beckham. "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana"
1991 Corrington, John William. "The Collected Stories of John William Corrington"
1992 Stones, Margaret. "Flora of Louisiana: Watercolor Drawings"
1993 Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. "Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century"
1994 Gaines, Ernest J. "A Lesson Before Dying"
1995 Boggs, Lindy. "Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Lady"
1996 Fairclough, Adam. "Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972"
1997 Upton, Dell, ed. "Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans [Madaline Edwards]"
1998 Poesch, Jessie J., and Barbara SoRelle Bacot, eds. "Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940: The Historic American Buildings Survey"
1999 Holt, Kimberly Willis. "My Louisiana Sky"
2000 Tregle, Joseph G. Jr. "Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities"
2001 Bacot, H. Parrott, et al. "Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist"
2002 Fernandez, Mark F. "From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System 1712-1862"
2003 Bankston, Carl L. III, and Stephen J. Caldas. "A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana"
2004 No award.
2005 No award.
2006 Follett, Richard. "The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860"
2007 Holt, Kimberly Willis. "Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family"
2008 Folse, John D. "After the Hunt: Louisiana's Authoritative Collection of Wild Game & Game Fish Cookery"
2009 No award.
2010 Roahen, Sara. "Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table"
Man Booker international prize (2005-11)
2011 info from The Man Booker Prizes accessed 3/30/11
2011 Finalists:
Wang Anyi (China)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
James Kelman (UK)
John le Carré (UK)
Amin Maalouf (Lebanon)
David Malouf (Australia)
Dacia Maraini (Italy)
Rohinton Mistry (India/Canada)
Philip Pullman (UK)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Philip Roth (USA)
Su Tong (China)
Anne Tyler (USA)
2009
Fourteen authors from 12 countries have been named to the shortlist for the £60,000 ($85,716) Man Booker international prize, which is "awarded once every two years to a writer for their contribution to fiction on the world stage," according to the Guardian.
The contenders:
Peter Carey (Australia) -- added Illywhacker
Evan S Connell (USA) -- added Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
Mahasweta Devi (Bangladesh) -- added Imaginary Maps
EL Doctorow (USA) -- added Welcome to Hard Times
James Kelman (UK) -- added How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) -- added The Feast of the Goat
Arnošt Lustig (Czech Republic) -- added Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel
Alice Munro (Canada) -- added Runaway: Stories -- Winner!
VS Naipaul (Trinidad/India) -- added A House for Mr. Biswas
Joyce Carol Oates (USA) -- added The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) -- added Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya) -- added A Grain of Wheat (African Writers) read this 5/3/09
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia) -- added The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia) -- added Medea and Her Children
2007
Chinua Achebe
2005
Ismail Kadare (inaugural prize)
2011 Finalists:
Wang Anyi (China)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
James Kelman (UK)
John le Carré (UK)
Amin Maalouf (Lebanon)
David Malouf (Australia)
Dacia Maraini (Italy)
Rohinton Mistry (India/Canada)
Philip Pullman (UK)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Philip Roth (USA)
Su Tong (China)
Anne Tyler (USA)
2009
Fourteen authors from 12 countries have been named to the shortlist for the £60,000 ($85,716) Man Booker international prize, which is "awarded once every two years to a writer for their contribution to fiction on the world stage," according to the Guardian.
The contenders:
Peter Carey (Australia) -- added Illywhacker
Evan S Connell (USA) -- added Mrs. Bridge: A Novel
Mahasweta Devi (Bangladesh) -- added Imaginary Maps
EL Doctorow (USA) -- added Welcome to Hard Times
James Kelman (UK) -- added How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) -- added The Feast of the Goat
Arnošt Lustig (Czech Republic) -- added Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel
Alice Munro (Canada) -- added Runaway: Stories -- Winner!
VS Naipaul (Trinidad/India) -- added A House for Mr. Biswas
Joyce Carol Oates (USA) -- added The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) -- added Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya) -- added A Grain of Wheat (African Writers) read this 5/3/09
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia) -- added The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia) -- added Medea and Her Children
2007
Chinua Achebe
2005
Ismail Kadare (inaugural prize)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Warwick Prize (2009-11)
from Warwick Prize for Writing accessed 3/24/11
The Warwick Prize for Writing was launched in 2008 and is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given every two years for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme which will change with every award. The winner of the inaugural Prize was announced on 24 February 2009 as Naomi Klein for The Shock Doctrine.
Peter Forbes won of the £50,000 (US$81,248) Warwick Prize for Writing for his book Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage. The biennial prize from the University of Warwick "is an international cross-disciplinary award open to any genre or form of writing."
The Warwick Prize for Writing was launched in 2008 and is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given every two years for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme which will change with every award. The winner of the inaugural Prize was announced on 24 February 2009 as Naomi Klein for The Shock Doctrine.
Peter Forbes won of the £50,000 (US$81,248) Warwick Prize for Writing for his book Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage. The biennial prize from the University of Warwick "is an international cross-disciplinary award open to any genre or form of writing."
Sami Rohr Prize (2007-2011)
2011 info from Jewish Book Council accessed 2/12/11
Finalists for the Jewish Book Council's $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Stations West by Allison Amend (LSU Press)
The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman (Livingston Press)
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Knopf)
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner (Bellevue Literary Press) --Winner!
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell (Algonquin Books) --Runner-up!
The finalists will meet with the fiction judges on March 15, and the winner, as well as the $25,000 Choice Award given to the first runner-up, will be announced shortly thereafter. The 2011 award ceremony will be held May 31.
From Jewish Book Council Blog accessed 3/14/10
2010 finalists for the fourth annual Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Lila Corwin Berman–Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Ari Y. Kelman – Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States
Kenneth B. Moss – Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution -Winner!
Danya Ruttenberg – Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce -Winner!
2009 Prize
Sana Krasikov's debut short story collection, One More Year: Stories, has won the 2009 $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for emerging writers.
The $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award went to Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz.
2008 Prize
In 2008, Lucette Lagnado was awarded the first non-fiction Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World.
Tamar Yellin for her novel The Genizah at the House of Shepher
Finalists for the Jewish Book Council's $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Stations West by Allison Amend (LSU Press)
The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman (Livingston Press)
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Knopf)
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner (Bellevue Literary Press) --Winner!
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell (Algonquin Books) --Runner-up!
The finalists will meet with the fiction judges on March 15, and the winner, as well as the $25,000 Choice Award given to the first runner-up, will be announced shortly thereafter. The 2011 award ceremony will be held May 31.
From Jewish Book Council Blog accessed 3/14/10
2010 finalists for the fourth annual Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature are:
Lila Corwin Berman–Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Ari Y. Kelman – Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States
Kenneth B. Moss – Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution -Winner!
Danya Ruttenberg – Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce -Winner!
2009 Prize
Sana Krasikov's debut short story collection, One More Year: Stories, has won the 2009 $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for emerging writers.
The $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award went to Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz.
2008 Prize
In 2008, Lucette Lagnado was awarded the first non-fiction Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World.
2007 Prize
Tamar Yellin for her novel The Genizah at the House of Shepher
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Bookclub Best Sellers (2010)
From Book Movement accessed 12/15/10
The top 20 book club bestsellers for 2010 from Bookmovement.com based on readers' choices are:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
op 25 Book Group Books Last Year
The top 25 book group discussion books of 2010, based on reports by book clubs, according to ReadingGroupGuides.com:
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
6. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
7. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
10. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
11. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
12. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
13. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
14. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
14. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
16. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
17. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
18. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
19. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
19. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
21. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
22. South of Broad by Pat Conroy
23. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
24. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
25. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The top 20 book club bestsellers for 2010 from Bookmovement.com based on readers' choices are:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
op 25 Book Group Books Last Year
The top 25 book group discussion books of 2010, based on reports by book clubs, according to ReadingGroupGuides.com:
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
6. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
7. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
10. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
11. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
12. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
13. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
14. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
14. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
16. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
17. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
18. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
19. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
19. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
21. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
22. South of Broad by Pat Conroy
23. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
24. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
25. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
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