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Book awards and prize updates
View the latest news and find out which authors have received
recognition for their work.
Titles listed on the shortlists will be available from Medway
Libraries to borrow. To find out which library has these in
stock, phone 01634 337799 or visit the
online catalogue.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 shortlist
Launched in 1996, the Orange Prize for Fiction
celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's
writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for
£30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a 'Bessie', created
by the artist Grizel Niven.
- Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Serpent's Tail) -
Canadian; second novel
- The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) -
Irish; fifth novel
- Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury) -
British; third novel
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) -
American; first novel
- Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (Atlantic Books) -
American; seventh novel
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (Bloomsbury) -
American; sixth novel
Costa Book Awards 2011
The Costa Book Awards is one of
the UK's most prestigious and popular literary prizes. The award
recognise some of the most enjoyable books of the year by writers
based in the UK and Ireland.
There are five categories: First Novel,
Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book.
Winners
Galaxy National Book Awards 2011: New Writer of the Year
The Galaxy National Book Awards honour the best new books of the
year from UK authors or non-British nationals who hold a British
passport or who have been resident in Great Britain and
Northern Ireland for more than two years.
Winner
When God was a Rabbit by
Sarah Winman
Young Elly Portman’s world is shaped by those
who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a
best friend who smells of chips and knows exotic words like 'slag';
an ageing fop who tap dances his way into her home, a Shirley
Bassey impersonator who trails close behind; lastly, of course, a
rabbit called God. In a childhood peppered with moments both
ordinary and extraordinary, Elly's one constant is her brother
Joe.
Twenty years on, Elly and Joe are fully grown and as close as
they ever were. Until, that is, one bright morning when a single,
earth-shattering event threatens to destroy their bond forever.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for his novel, The Sense of an Ending,
published by Jonathan Cape. Julian Barnes has previously been
shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for Arthur
and George (2005), England, England (1998) and
Flaubert's Parrot (1984).)
Dame Stella Rimington, Chair of the 2011
judges, made the announcement at the awards dinner held at London's
Guildhall on Tuesday, 18 October, which was broadcast by the BBC.
Jon Aisbitt, Chairman of Man, presented Julian Barnes with a cheque
for £50,000.
The judging panel for the 2011 Man Booker
Prize for Fiction was: Dame Stella Rimington (author and former
Director-General M15;) Matthew d'Ancona, (writer and journalist;)
Susan Hill, (author;) Chris Mullin (author and politician,)
and Gaby Wood, (Head of Books at the Daily Telegraph.)
The Sense of an Ending was selected
from a shortlist that featured Carol Birch, Patrick deWitt, Esi
Edugyan, Stephen Kelman and A.D.Miller.
Man Booker International Prize
Philip Roth has been announced as the winner of the fourth
Man Booker International Prize at a press conference at the Sydney
Opera House. Roth was chosen from a list of 13 eminent
contenders.
Roth is one of the world's most prolific, celebrated and
controversial writers. Born in March 1933 in New Jersey, Roth is
best known for his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint, and for
his late-1990s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning
American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist
(1998), and The Human Stain (2000).
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book
Awards
The Carnegie Medal is awarded by children's librarians
for an outstanding book for children and young people. The Kate
Greenaway Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an
outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young
people.
In 2007 the CILIP Carnegie Medal celebrated
its 70th Anniversary and the CILIP Kate Greenaway its 50th.
CILIP Carnegie shortlist 2012
- My Name is Mina by David Almond
(Hodder)
- Small Change for Stuart by Lissa
Evans (Doubleday)
- The Midnight Zoo by Sonya
Hartnett (Walker)
- Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis
(Anderson)
- Trash by Andy Mulligan (David
Fickling)
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
(Walker)
- My Sister Lives on the
Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher (Orion)
- Between Shades of Grey by Ruta
Sepetys (Puffin)
CILIP Kate Greenaway shortlist 2012
- Wolf Won't Bite by Emily Gravett
(Macmillan)
- Puffin Peter by Petr Horáček
(Walker)
- A Monster Calls by Jim Kay (text
by Patrick Ness) (Walker)
- Slog's Dad by Dave McKean (Text
by David Almond) (Walker)
- Solomon Crocodile by Catherine
Rayner (Macmillan)
- The Gift by Rob Ryan (Text by
Carol Anne Duffy)(Barefoot Books)
- There Are No Cats in This Book by
Viviane Schwarz (Walker)
- Can We Save the Tiger by Vicky
White (Text by Martin Jenkins) (Walker)
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