Literary Awards
International Literary Awards

International Literary Awards

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 6 September 2011.

·         Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending, Jonathan Cape

·         Carol Birch - Jamrach’s Menagerie , Canongate

·         Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers, Granta Books

·         Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues , Serpent’s Tail

·         Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English, Bloomsbury

·         A D Miller – Snowdrops, Atlantic Books

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 longlist was announced on Tuesday 26 July 2011.

·         Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending, Jonathan Cape

·         Sebastian Barry - On Canaan’s Side, Faber & Faber

·         Carol Birch - Jamrach’s Menagerie , Canongate

·         Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers, Granta Books

·         Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues , Serpent’s Tail

·         Yvvette Edwards - A Cupboard Full of Coats, Oneworld

·         Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger’s Child, Picador

·         Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English, Bloomsbury

·         Patrick McGuinness - The Last Hundred Days, Seren Books

·         A D Miller – Snowdrops, Atlantic Books

·         Alison Pick - Far to Go, Headline Review

·         Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Sandstone Press

·         D J Taylor - Derby Day, Chatto & Windus

The winner will be announced on Tuesday 18 October 2011.

 


 

The Man Booker International Prize 2011

Philip Roth was announced as winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2011 at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 18 May and celebrated at an awards ceremony in London on 28 June 2011.

The finalists were:

  • Wang Anyi
  • Juan Goytisolo
  • James Kelman
  • John le Carré
  • Amin Maalouf
  • David Malouf
  • Dacia Maraini
  • Rohinton Mistry
  • Philip Pullman
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • Su Tong
  • Anne Tyler

 

Orange Prize 2011

The winner was announced in London on 8th June.  Serbian/American author Téa Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).  At 25, Obreht is the youngest-ever author to take the Prize.

Shortlisted were:

  • Emma Donoghue (Irish) - Room; Picador; 7th Novel
  • Aminatta Forna (British/Sierra Leonean) - The Memory of Love; Bloomsbury; 2nd Novel
  • Emma Henderson (British) - Grace Williams Says it Loud; Sceptre; 1st Novel
  • Nicole Krauss (American) - Great House; Viking; 3rd Novel
  • Téa Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger's Wife; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st Novel
  • Kathleen Winter (Canadian) - Annabel; Jonathan Cape; 1st Novel

 


 

Pulitzer Prizes 2011

The following Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 18, for Letters, Drama, and Music:

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.W. Norton & Company)

Biography or Autobiography

Washington : A Life by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)

Poetry

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic)

General Nonfiction

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)

Music

Madame White Snake by Zhou Long (Oxford University Press)

 


 

CWA Dagger Awards 2011

CWA Dagger winners were announced at Harrogate on Friday 22 July.

The winners are:

    International Dagger:   Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
    Non-Fiction Dagger:   The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr
    Dagger in the Library:   Mo Hayder
    Short Story dagger:   Homework by Phil Lovesey
    Debut Dagger:   What Hidden Lies by Michele Rowe.

 


Edgar Awards

Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards on April 28, 2011 in New York.

 

The winners are:

 

  • BEST NOVEL:  The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur Books)
  • BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR:  Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
  • BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:  Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
  • BEST FACT CRIME:  Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
  • BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL:  Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvouz with American History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
  • BEST SHORT STORY:  "The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
  • ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD:  "Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Evan Lewis (Dell Magazines)

 

  • GRAND MASTER:  Sara Paretsky

 

 

 
2011 Australian Literary Awards

2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards

On Friday 8 July 2011 the Prime Minister announced the winners of the four categories in the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

The winners and shortlisted entries were:

Non-fiction

  • The Hard Light of Day,   Rod Moss - Winner
  • How To Make Gravy,   Paul Kelly
  • Sydney,   Delia Falconer
  • The Party,   Richard McGregor
  • Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory,   Patrick Wilcken

Fiction

  • Traitor,   Stephen Daisley - Winner
  • Glissando,   David Musgrave
  • Notorious,   Roberta Lowing
  • That Deadman Dance,   Kim Scott
  • When Colts Ran,   Roger McDonald

Young adult fiction

  • Graffiti Moon,   Cath Crowley - Winner
  • About a Girl,   Joanne Horniman
  • Good Oil,   Laura Buzo
  • The Piper's Son,   Melina Marchetta
  • The Three Loves of Persimmon,   Cassandra Golds

Children's fiction

  • Shake a Leg,   Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod - Winner
  • April Underhill, Tooth Fairy,   Bob Graham
  • Flyaway,   Lucy Christopher
  • Now,   Morris Gleitzman
  • Why I Love Australia,   Bronwyn Bancroft

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2011

Winners were announced on Tuesday, 6 September.

Fiction

    That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

Non-Fiction

    An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark Mckenna

Young Adult

    The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra Golds

Drama

    Do Not Go Gentle by Patricia Cornelius

Poetry

    The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy

People's Choice Award

    Into the Woods by Anna Krien

Shortlisted Nominees:

CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry

  • Swallow,   Claire Potter
  • The Taste of River Water,   Cate Kennedy
  • This Floating World,   Libby Hart

Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

  • Five Bells,   Gail Jones
  • When Colts Ran,   Roger McDonald
  • The Roving Party,   Rohan Wilson
  • Bright and Distant Shores,   Dominic Smith
  • The Amateur Science of Love,   Craig Sherborne
  • That Deadman Dance,   Kim Scott

Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction

  • A Private Empire,   Stephen Foster
  • Delusions of Gender,   Cordelia Fine
  • My Blood’s Country,   Fiona Capp
  • Into the Woods,   Anna Krien
  • Good Living Street,   Tim Bonyhady
  • An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark,   Mark McKenna

Prize for Writing for Young Adults

  • The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher,   Doug MacLeod
  • Graffiti Moon,   Cath Crowley
  • The Three Loves of Persimmon,   Cassandra Golds

Louis Esson Prize for Drama

  • Sappho…in 9 fragments,   Jane Montgomery Griffiths
  • Do not go gentle…,   Patricia Cornelius
  • Intimacy,   Raimondo Cortese

Ned Kelly Awards 2011

For Australian crime writing.  The winners were announced on 31st August, during the Melbourne Writers Festival.

The winners and shorlisted titles are:

Best First Fiction

    **  Prime Cut,  Alan Carter,  Fremantle Press

    Line of Sight, David Whish-Wilson,  Penguin Books

    The Old School, P.M. Newton,  Penguin Books

S.D. Harvey Short Story Award

    **  Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas for Vegans, A.S. Patric

    Southern Hemisphere Blues, Robert Goodman

True Crime

    **  Abandoned - The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble, Geesche Jacobson,  Allen & Unwin

    Wasted, Ross Honeywill,  Penguin

    Honeymoon Dive,I Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke,  Macmillan

Best Fiction

    **  The Diggers Rest Hotel, Geoffrey McGeachin,  Penguin

    The Half-Child,  Angela Savage,  Text

    Bereft,  Chris Womersley,  Scribe Publishing

2011 Nominations are:

Best First Fiction

  • Diamond Eyes,   A.A. Bell
  • Undercover,   Keith Bulfin
  • Prime Cut,   Alan Carter
  • While I Have Perdo,   John Chesterman
  • Who Killed Dave?   Linda Cockburn
  • The Pericles Commission,   Gary Corby
  • Mosquito Creek,   Robert Engwerda
  • Beyond Fear,  Jaye Ford
  • A Few Right Thinking Men,  Sulari Gentill
  • Beautiful Malice,   Rebecca James
  • The Genesis Flaw,   L.A. Larkin
  • The Old School,   P.M. Newton 
  • Five Parts Dead,   Tim Pegler
  • Line of Sight,   David Whish-Wilson

Best Fiction

  • The Ghost of Waterloo,   Robin Adair
  • Follow The Money,   Peter Corris
  • Sharp Turn,   Marianne Delacourt
  • The Maya Codex,   Adrian d'Hage
  • Death Mask,   Kathryn Fox
  • Watch The World Burn,   Leah Giarrantano
  • Dead Man's Chest,   Kerry Greenwood
  • Violent Exposure,   Katherine Howell
  • Gunshot Road,   Adrian Hyland
  • Fall Girl,   Toni Jordan
  • Silk Chaser,   Peter Klein
  • Naked Cruelty,   Colleen McCullough 
  • Diggers Rest Hotel,   Geoff McGeachin
  • Let The Dead Lie,   Malla Nunn
  • How The Dead See,   David Owen
  • Red Ice,   James Phelan
  • Thrill City,   Leigh Redhead
  • Mice,   Gordon Reece
  • Hot Rock Dreaming,   Martin Roth
  • The Half-Child,   Angela Savage
  • The Noon Lady of Towitta,   Patricia Sumerling
  • Bereft,   Chris Womersley
  • Shattered Sky,   Helene Young

Best True Crime

  • They Shot Phar Lap, Didn't They?   Geoff Armstrong & Peter Thompson
  • The Job,   Charlie Bezzina with Ben Collins
  • Enforcer,   Caesar & Donna Campbell
  • Murder No More,   Colleen Egan
  • Sin Bin,   John Elias
  • City of Evil,   Sean Fewster
  • Badlands,   Liam Houlihan
  • Abandoned,   Geesche Jacobsen
  • Inside Story,   Peter Lloyd
  • McVillain: The Man Who Got Away,   David McMillan
  • Shot Gun and Standover,   James Morton & Russell Robinson
  • Bank Robbery For Beginners,   Anthony Prince
  • King of Thieves,   Adam Shand
  • Mr Asia,   Jim Shepherd
  • Honeymoon Dive,   Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke
  • Snitch,   Jimmy Thomson
  • Bumper,   Larry Writer

The SD Harvey Short Story

TBA

 


Age Book of the Year Awards 2011

The awards were presented at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival on August 25.

FICTION and THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER

    Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor  (Scribe)

NON-FICTION

    A Three-Cornered Life by Jim Davidson  (UNSW Press)

POETRY

    Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter  (UQP)

 

Fiction Finalists

·         Like Being A Wife,   Catherine Harris

·         The Mary Smokes Boys,   Patrick Holland

·         Indelible Ink,   Fiona McGregor

·         Bright And Distant Shores,  Dominic Smith

·         Bereft,   Chris Womersley

Non-Fiction Finalists

·         Sydney,   Delia Falconer

·         A Three-Cornered Life,   Jim Davidson

·         When It Rains,   Maggie Mackellar

·         When Horse Became Saw,   Anthony Macris

·         The Many Worlds Of R.H. Mathews,   Martin Thomas

Poetry Finalists

·         Sly Mongoose,   Ken Bolton

·         Supermodernprayerbook,   Susan Bradley Smith

·         This Floating World,   Libby Hart

·         Porch Music,   Cameron Lowe

·         Starlight: 150 Poems,   John Tranter


2011 Northern Territory Literary Award

Northern Territory Library Director Jo McGill congratulated all the winners who were honoured at the awards ceremony held at Parliament House on Thursday 12 May 2011.

The 2011 Northern Territory Literary Award winners are:

Dymocks Arafura Short Story Award

  • Khmoc by Sophie Constable

Dymocks Red Earth Poetry Award

  • Under attack by Bronwyn Mehan

Dymocks Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers’ Award

  • Wadjita by John Bodey

Charles Darwin University Bookshop Travel Short Story Award

  • The Streets of France by Christine Wilson

Charles Darwin University Essay Award

  • Imagining Darwin by Kate Smith

Kath Manzie Youth Literary Award

  • With Stars in His Eyes by Kierra-Jay Power

Darwin Festival Script Award

  • C (299 792 458) by Alex Ben-Mayor

Birch Carroll and Coyle Screenwriting Award

  • Lucid by Philip Denson

The 2011 finalists were:

Dymocks Arafura Short Story Award

  • Barbara Eather
  • Blair McFarland
  • Stephen Francis
  • Bronwyn Mehan
  • Melinda Barlow
  • Michael Giacometti
  • Natalie Sprite
  • Sophie Constable

Dymocks Red Earth Poetry Award

  • Karina Brabham
  • Jennifer Mills
  • Bronwyn Mehan
  • Penny Drysdale
  • Kathleen Epelde
  • Kaye Aldenhoven (x2)

Dymocks Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers’ Award:

  • Nicole Gardiner
  • John Bodey
  • Joey Flynn

Charles Darwin University Bookshop Travel Short Story Award:

  • Christine Wilson
  • Michael Giacometti
  • Miranda Tetlow

Charles Darwin University Essay Award:

  • Adelle Barry (x2)
  • Jane Leonard
  • Kate Smith

Kath Manzie Youth Literary Award:

  • Stevie Cosentino
  • Kierra-Jay Power (x4!!)
  • Sophie Philip
  • Shannon Nendick
  • Laila Bennett

Darwin Festival Script Award:

  • Jane Leonard
  • Alex Ben-Mayor

Birch Carroll and Coyle Screenwriting Award:

  • Cameron Raynes
  • Philip Denson
  • Eleanor Hogan

 

 
2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award

 

The winner was announced on June 22 and is Kim Scott's That deadman dance

Shortlist:

Roger McDonald - When colts ran

Kim Scott - That deadman dance

Chris Womersley - Bereft

Longlist:

 Jon Bauer - Rocks in the belly

Honey Brown - The good daughter

Patrick Holland - The Mary smokes boy

Melina Marchetta - The piper's son