Judges for the £25,000 award say the collection, informed by grief for his two brothers, ‘braves large questions’ with its lyric sequence. Read more
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Category: Awards
‘The Philosopher Fish’ Claims the Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire earned 27% of the public vote, just ahead of How to Dungeon Master Parenting, which itself was a hair in front of Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. Read more
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Ferdia Lennon Wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for ‘Delightful’ Novel
Ferdia Lennon has been awarded the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, which means a pig will be named after his winning novel, Glorious Exploits. The prize, set up in 2000, seeks to recognise the funniest new novels that best evoke the spirit of PG Wodehouse’s work. As well as the chance to name a gloucestershire old spots pig, the winner receives a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a complete set of the Everyman’s Library PG Wodehouse collection. Read more
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Winners of the National Book Award Announced
Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel “James,” a propulsive and slyly funny retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s companion, an enslaved man named James … The award for nonfiction was given to the anthropologist Jason De León for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling,” an immersive account of the nearly seven years he spent embedded with human smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border. The book depicts traffickers as both victims and perpetrators of violence, often suffering from the same poverty as migrants. Read more
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Richard Flanagan Wins Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize With ‘Astonishing’ Question 7
Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the first person to have won both this award and the Booker prize for fiction. Part-memoir, part-novel, part-history, Question 7 charts Flanagan’s attempt to understand his parents and Tasmania, where he is from. Read more
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Samantha Harvey’s ‘Beautiful and Ambitious’ Orbital Wins Booker Prize
Harvey’s tale of six fictional astronauts on the International Space Station was “unanimously” chosen as the winner after a “proper day” considering the six-strong shortlist, according to judging chair, the artist and author Edmund de Waal. “Our unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share”. Read more
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Kathleen DuVal Wins 2024 Cundill History Prize
The announcement was made at an event in Montreal on Oct. 30 by jury chair Rana Mitter. DuVal was named the winner for her book Native Nations: A Millenium in North America (Penguin Random House). The book is a 1,000-year history of North America. DuVal teaches early American and American Indian history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read more
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Naomi Shihab Nye Is This Year’s Winner of the Wallace Stevens Award
Nye’s prize was announced Friday by the Academy of American Poets, which has previously given the award to Louise Glück, John Ashbery and Rita Dove among others. Nye, 72, is known for such collections as “Fuel,” “Yellow Queen” and “Grace Notes,” which came out this year. Read more
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Winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize Announced
The winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize were announced on Oct. 16 at the 11th Annual Kirkus Prize awards at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York City. The prestigious literary award is presented by Kirkus Reviews, the leading pre-publication journal of book reviews in the U.S, and awarded to one author of fiction, nonfiction and young people’s literature. Read more
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Victoria Chang Wins Forward Poetry Prize
All four of the 2024 Forward prizes for poetry have been awarded to women: Victoria Chang won the £10,000 prize for best collection; Marjorie Lotfi’s book was named best first collection; Cindy Juyoung Ok won the prize for the best single poem (written); and Leyla Josephine was awarded the prize for the best single poem (performed). Read more
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