Chauncey, a professor of American history at Columbia, becomes the first scholar in L.G.B.T.Q. studies to receive the $500,000 award. Read more
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Category: Awards
Danica Novgorodoff wins Kate Greenaway medal for graphic novel Long Way Down
Danica Novgorodoff’s “innovative” graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds’ novel Long Way Down has won the Yoto Kate Greenaway medal, making it the first graphic novel to win the illustration prize since Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas in 1973. Meanwhile, Katya Balen has won the Yoto Carnegie medal, which celebrates outstanding achievement in children’s writing. The “expertly written” October, October was inspired by Balen’s father-in-law, who lives off-grid. Read more
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Ruth Ozeki’s ‘complete joy’ of a novel wins Women’s prize for fiction
The novelist, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest takes the £30,000 award for a book that “stood out for its sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence, humour and poignancy”, according to the chair of judges, Mary Ann Sieghart. Read more
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Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years
The Costa book awards, after running for half a century, have been abruptly scrapped. The coffee shop chain has said the 2021 awards, which were announced in February this year, were the last. Read more
French author Alice Zeniter has won the eye-popping €100,000 Dublin Literary Award
The Art of Losing by French novelist Alice Zeniter has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, a prize which comes with a handsome glass trophy and the world’s largest purse for a single novel published in English—a whopping €100,000. Read more
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Hindi Novel Wins International Booker Prize for the First Time
“Tomb of Sand,” written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, won despite getting little previous attention from reviewers. Read more
Here Are the Winners of the 2021 Nebula Awards
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! Read more
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Vincent Kling Wins the 2022 Wolff Translator’s Prize for ‘The Strudlhof Steps’
Vincent Kling has been announced as this year’s winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his NYRB Classics translation of Heimito von Doderer’s novel The Strudlhof Steps. Administered each spring by the Goethe-Institut, the award comes with a prize of $10,000. Read more
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Debut novelist wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for No One Is Talking About This
American novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for her “searingly witty and innovative take on modern day internet culture”. Read more
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Winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
They’re the most prestigious awards in America, not just for journalists, but historians, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, composers and novelists. Read more
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