by ta | Jun 13, 2007 | Book Awards
The shortlist for the award included Carlos Fuentes, Doris Lessing, Philip Roth, Don Delillo, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Amos Oz. Judge Nadine Gordimer called Achebe the “Father of Modern African Literature.” He will be awarded...
by ta | Apr 17, 2007 | Book Awards
“The famously reclusive Mr. McCarthy, 73, won for his devastating chronicle of a father and son walking alone across a post-apocalyptic America, cold, dark and strewn with corpses and ash. In her review in The New York Times,, Janet Maslin wrote, “ ‘The Road’...
by Michelle | Apr 2, 2007 | Book Awards
The 2007 PEN/Faulkner award was given to Philip Roth for his book Everyman. Below is a snippet from a press release available for download on the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s website. “Philip Roth’s work Everyman (Houghton Mifflin) has been selected as the...
by Michelle | Mar 20, 2007 | Book Awards
Never heard of it? Me, neither. At least not until I was reading a book blog and the blog’s author mentioned it. So what exactly is the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction? Straight from the prize’s mouth, er, website… “The founders of the...
by ta | Mar 10, 2007 | Book Awards, Headlines
The NBCC Awards were announced on Thursday. Kiren Desai’s book The Inheritance of Loss won for best fiction. “In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the...
by Michelle | Mar 3, 2007 | Book Awards
The nominees for the Agatha Awards have been announced! For a complete list of the nominees, please click here! Here’s a little info on the awards themselves (via the official website): “The Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery—-books best typified...
