And the Winner is...?: Recent Literary Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. His recent works include Ballaciner, L'Africain, Wandering Star, and Révolutions.
Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread) | Governor General's Literary Awards | Man Booker Prize | National Book Award | National Book Critics Circle Award | Orange Prize for Fiction | PEN/Faulkner Award | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Scotiabank Giller Prize
2008 Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread)
Costa First Novel Award
Sadie Jones's The Outcast was the winner of the 2008 Costa First Novel Award. The shortlist included:
- Adams, Poppy. The Sisters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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PR6101.D364 S57 2008
(Originally published in Great Britain as The Behaviour of Moths.)
- Jones, Sadie. The Outcast. New York : Harper, c2008.
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PR6110.O638 O98 2008
- Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44. New York: Grand Central Pub., 2008.
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PR6119.M586 C48 2008
- Rooney, Jennie. Inside the Whale. London: Chatto & Windus, 2008.
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PR6118.O57 I57 2008
Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture was the winner of the 2009 Costa Novel Award as well as the Costa Book of the Year.
- Barry, Sebastian. The Secret Scripture. Viking: New York, 2008.
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PR6052.A729 S43 2008
- Cleave, Chris. The Other Hand. London: Sceptre, 2008
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PR6103.L43 O74 2008
- De Bernieres, Louis. A Partisan's Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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PR6054.E132 P37 2008
- McGrath, Patrick.Trauma. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
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PS3563.C3663 T73 2008
Nino Ricci's The Origin of Species was the winner of this year's Governor General's Award. Finalists included:
- Galchen, Rivka. Atmospheric Disturbances. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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PS3607.A4116 A94 2008
- Hage, Rawi. Cockroach. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2008
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PR9199.4.H33 C63 2008
- Ricci, Nino. The Origin of Species. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2008
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- Richards, David Adams. The Lost Highway: A Novel. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2007.
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- Stenson, Fred. The Great Karoo. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2008.
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PR9199.3.S783 G42 2008
The winner of the 2008 Man Booker Award was Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. The Shortlist included the following titles:
- Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free Press, 2008.
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PR9619.4.A35 W47 2008
- Barry, Sebastian. The Secret Scripture: A Novel. Viking: New York, 2008.
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PR6052.A729 S43 2008
- Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of Poppies. London: John Murray, 2008.
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PR9499.3.G536 S43 2008
- Grant, Linda. The Clothes on Their Backs.London: Virago, 2008.
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PR6057.R316C56 2008
- Hensher, Philip. The Northern Clemency. London: Fourth Estate, 2008.
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PR6058.E554N67 2008
- Toltz, Steve. A Fraction of the Whole. New York: Spiegel & Grau, c2008.
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PR9619.4.T65 F73 2008
The 2008 National Book Award
Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country was the winner of the 2008 National Book Award. Finalists included:
- Hemon, Aleksandar. The Lazarus Project. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008.
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PS3608.E48 L39 2008 - Kushner, Rachel. Telex from Cuba. New York: Scribner, 2008
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PS3611.U7386 T45 2008 - Matthiessen, Peter. Shadow Country. New York: Modern Library, 2008.
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PS3563.A8584 S53 2008 - Robinson, Marilynne. Home. Farrar, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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PS3568.O3125 H58 2008 - Scibona, Salvatore. The End. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2008.
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PS3619.C53 E53 2008
Roberto Bolaño's 2666 was the winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Finalists included:
- Bolaño, Roberto. 2666; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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- Hemon, Aleksandar. The Lazarus Project. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008.
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PS3608.E48 L39 2008
- Robinson, Marilynne. Home. Farrar, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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PS3568.O3125 H58 2008
- Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge. New York: Random House, 2008.
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- Taylor, M. Glenn. The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart. Morgantown: Vandalia Press, 2008. Regenstein Stacks PS3620.A9593 B35 2008
The shortlist for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction was announced April 21. The following titles are included:
- Feldman, Ellen. Scottsboro. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.
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PS3572.I38 S36 2008
- Harvey, Samantha. The Wilderness. New York: Nan A. Talese, c2009.
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PR6108.A7875 W55 2009
- Hunt, Samantha. The Invention of Everything Else. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
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PS3608.U585 I58 2008
- Madden, Deirdre. Molly Fox's Birthday. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
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PR6063.A288 M66 2008 - Robinson, Marilynne. Home. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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PS3568.O3125 H58 2008
- Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
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2009 Orange Award for New Writers<
The shortlist for the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers includes the following titles:
- Kay, Francesca. An Equal Stillness. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009.
On order - Mun, Nami. Miles from Nowhere. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.
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- Weisgarber, Ann. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. London: Macmillan New Writing, 2008.
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2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland was the winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. The finalists included:
- Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien. Ms. Hempel Chronicles. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008.
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PS3602.Y58 M74 2008
- Choi, Susan. A person of Interest: A Novel. New York: Viking, 2008.
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PS3553.H584 P47 2008
- O'Neill, Joseph. Netherland. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008
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PR6065.N435 N48 2008
- Price, Richard. Lush Life. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008.
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PS3566.R544L87 2008
- Rash, Ron. Serena: A Novel. New York: Ecco, c2008.
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Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, was the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The finalists included:
- Erdrich, Louise. The Plague of Doves. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.
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PS3555.R42 P55 2008 - Schutt, Christine. All Souls. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008.
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- Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge. New York: Random House, c2008.
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Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce. was the winner of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The shortlist included the following titles:
- Boyden, Joseph. Through Black Spruce. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2008
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- De Sa, Anthony. Barnacle Love. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, c2008.
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PR9199.4.D425B37 2008 - Endicott, Marina. Good to a Fault. Calgary, Alta.: Freehand Books
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- Hage, Rawi. Cockroach. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2008
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PR9199.4.H33 C63 2008
- Swan, Mary. The Boys in the Trees. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
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