Awards & Prizes

Source: Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to British author Kazuo Ishiguro – UPI.com

Source: The 2017 National Book Award Longlists This list from Publishers Weekly includes links to its reviews of many of the nominated works.

Colson Whitehead and Heather Ann Thompson took home the prizes for ‘The Underground Railroad’ and ‘Blood In the Water’ respectively during the 101st installment of the awards. Source: Whitehead, Thompson Among 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The National Book Critics Circle, founded at the Algonquin Round Table in 1974, honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature. Source: National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for 2016 Awards – Critical Mass Blog

Politics intruded on this year’s awards ceremony, where Mr. Whitehead, whose novel explores the horrors of American slavery, urged writers to “fight the power.” Source: Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for ‘The Underground Railroad’

C.E. Morgan, Susan Faludi and Jason Reynolds were honored on Thursday at the third annual Kirkus Prizes ceremony in Austin, Tex. Each prize comes with an award of $50,000. Source: C. E. Morgan Among Winners of $50,000 Kirkus Book Prizes – The New York Times

The book, a satire of race and class, marks the first time an American author has won the Man Booker Prize. Source: Paul Beatty’s ‘The Sellout’ is first US Booker Prize winner

The singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, one of the world’s most influential musicians, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” in the words of the Swedish Academy. Source: Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature – The New York Times

Vietnamese-American writer, whose Vietnam war novel also won the Pulitzer, awarded for ‘profound and startling’ debut Source: Viet Thanh Nguyen wins Dayton peace prize for The Sympathizer | Books | The Guardian