Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature – NYTimes.com Tomas Transtromer, the Swedish poet whose sometimes bleak but powerful work explores themes of nature, isolation and identity, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
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This Publisher’s Weekly article summing up Boucheron 2011, held in St. Louis, includes the list of winners of the mystery genre’s various awards and prizes: As is the tradition at Bouchercon, a conference steeped in awards ceremonies, Thursday’s festivities included the presentation of both the Macavity and Barry Awards. Voted on by the members of
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Why Do We Care About Literary Awards? Mark O’Connell answers his own question: By and large, awards like the Booker are intended to promote solid, well-written, more or less middlebrow fiction — the kind of books that broadsheet newspapers tend to give coverage to. And that’s surely a good thing for the publishing industry, for
Books | Seventy years later, we still ‘Make Way For Ducklings’ | Seattle Times Newspaper. An appreciation of Robert McCloskey’s children’s classic, published 70 years ago this year. Generations of children have delighted in the story of how Mr. and Mrs. Mallard first find the perfect place in Boston to start their family, and how
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Tea Obreht won the Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for her debut novel, “The Tiger’s Wife,” making her at 25 the youngest person to win the award.
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Britain’s Orange Prize was established 16 years ago to promote women’s fiction in English. The judges look around the world for “excellence, originality, and accessibility” (and no, the first criterion isn’t automatically canceled out by the third). Three of this year’s shortlisted novels deal with imprisoned women, three with the aftermath of war, and three
A list of this year’s nominations for the annual Anthony Awards for mystery writing. The winners will be announced at the 2011 annual mystery convention, Bouchercon, to be held in St. Louis September 15-18.
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This article in the New York Times includes all winners. Here are the winners in the arts and letters categories: FICTION – “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf) DRAMA – “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris HISTORY – “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner (W.
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Bouchercon by the Bay PW Daily reports on awards given out at Bouchercon, the annual mystery writers’ convention: In addition to Tower’s win for Best Novel, Macavity Awards—voted on by members of Mystery Readers International—were also given to Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke (Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award); Hank Phillippi Ryan’s ‘On the House’
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ReadingGroupGuides.com – 10th Anniversary Contest Results: In honor of its tenth anniversary, ReadingGroupGuides.com ran a contest asking book groups to submit a list of their favorite books. The results are now in, and here is the Top Ten list. There are also links here to results broken down into categories (e.g., classics, biographies/memoirs). How many
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