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Literary awards


 
     


The Man Booker Prize 2007


The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world's most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and even publishers.
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The 2007 winner is: The Gathering by Anne Enright

The shortlist:


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The winners of the Costa Book Awards 2006

First Novel Award winner
Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves
Novel Award winner
William Boyd - Restless
Children's Book Award winner
Linda Newbery - Set in Stone
Poetry Award winner
John Haynes - Letter to Patience
Biography Award winner
Brian Thompson - Keeping Mum

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Nobel Prize for Literature 2006

Beth predicted three years ago that
Orhan Pamuk
 would win the Nobel prize within ten years - and on October 11, 2006 he won it! This is a difficult but impressive author. Do try one of his books! Snow, My Name is Red, Istanbul, The New Life, The White Castle, The Black Book.

Nobel Prize for Literature
The first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a prize amount.  The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded not to a book itself, but to a writer, hence the expression 'Nobel Laureate', given to the winner of the prize.
All Nobel Laureates in Literature


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Commonwealth Writers Prize

The Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1987 to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.
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IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award involves nominations from libraries worldwide.
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Winner 2006
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National Book Award

The Literarian Award is presented to an individual for outstanding service to the American literary community, whose life and work exemplify the goals of the National Book Foundation to expand the audience for literature and to enhance the cultural value of literature in America.
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The Orange Prize for Fiction

Is awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English.The prize is open to any full length novel, written in English by a woman of any nationality, provided that the novel is published for the first time in the United Kingdom between 1 April of the year before the prize is awarded and 31 March of the year in which the prize is awarded.
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Winner 2006


 



 

 
     
 
     


The Pulitzer Prizes

More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories.
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