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Scottish Book Award

http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/arts...
Kieron Smith, boy is declared 2009 Scottish Book of the Year



 

Acclaimed writer James Kelman has won Book of the Year 2009 in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards for his novel Kieron Smith, boy.  Managed by the Scottish Arts Council the awards are Scotland's richest book awards and net the author a total prize [...:]

Glass Woman Prize

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  THE GLASS WOMAN PRIZE
- The Sixth Glass Woman Prize reading period is now in effect through September 21, 2009.  Please see guidelines below. - 
THE WINNING STORY FOR THE FIFTH GLASS WOMAN PRIZE is L. K. Clark's stunning story "Sacred Explosion."
RUNNER UP PRIZE WINNERS are Folakemi Emem-Akpan' story "Househelp," Kirsty Logan's story "The Man From [...:]

Irish Author Siobhain Dowd Awarded Carnegie Medal Posthumously

Carnegie Medal 2009 was awarded to Siobhan Dowd for her novel Bog Child.
DOWD, SIOBHAN BOG CHILD
David Fickling Books (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780385614269
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds something that makes his heart stop. Curled up deep in the bog is the body of the child. And it looks [...:]

Frank O Connor Short Story Award

http://www.munsterlit.ie/FOC%20Award%...
THE CORK CITY – FRANK O'CONNOR SHORT STORY AWARD 
Shortlisted Authors 2009
Longlisted Authors 2009
Judges
Award FAQ
2009 Festival Programme
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Shortlist for the 2009 Cork City – Frank O'Connor Short Story Award Announced
The shortlist for the 2009 Cork City – Frank O'Connor Short Story Award has been decided by an international jury. The award at 35,000 euro is the richest prize in [...:]

Miles Franklin Award 2009

http://www.trust.com.au/awards/miles_...
Miles Franklin Literary Award

Celebrating the best in Australian literature
The Miles Franklin Literary Award, our first and most prestigious literary award, was established in 1954 with a bequest from the author Miles Franklin. She was concerned to see Australian literature flourish and knew first hand the struggles most authors have in Australia.
The Miles Franklin Literary Award [...:]

Royal Science Prize For Science Books

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2009 Prize
 The 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books celebrate the best of 2008's new popular science writing for a general (adult) readership. The winner will be awarded £10,000. The authors of each shortlisted book will receive £1000.
The Royal Society is grateful to the Beecroft Trust for supporting the 2009 Prizes.
The shortlist
From all the entries [...:]

Dundee International Book Prize

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2009 Dundee International Book Prize
Winner Announced
Chris Longmuir – Dundee International Book Prize Winner 2009
 
 A gritty crime novel based on an infamous Dundee murder has been unveiled as the winner of this year's Dundee International Book Prize, a collaboration between the University of Dundee, Polygon and the newly unveiled 'One City, Many Discoveries' campaign.


New writers struggle [...:]

Red House Children's Book Award 2009

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Winners for 2009
<!–See past winners from previous years back to 1981.
See the photos from the 2007 Award ceremony.You can see photos from our past Award ceremonies.
–>The votes have been counted, the trophies presented and the winners revealed. The winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2009 are:

Overall Winner

 
Blood Ties
Sophie McKenzie
Category:Older Readers



Category Winners

 
The Pencil
Allan Ahlberg [...:]

Independent Booksellers ShortList Released

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/869... booksellers book prize shortlists unveiled01.06.09 Graeme Neill Bloomsbury dominates the shortlist for the Independent Booksellers Book Prize with three nominations. Voting for this year's award, along with the prize for best children's book, will begin during Independent Booksellers Week, which takes place from 15th to 22nd June.Bloomsbury's A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Suspicions of

Deborah Kay Davies Wins Wales Book of The Year

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Story collection wins book prize










Writer Deborah Kay Davies beat two other women finalists to the prize





A debut collection of short stories has won its author the Wales Book of the Year 2009 accolade.
Deborah Kay Davies beat poet Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and writer Gee Williams to the £10,000 prize with her book Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the [...:]