Edward Alwood wins Tankard Book Award for Dark Days in the Newsroom

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

What makes the journalists stand out from others who were targets during the McCarthy era is that they worked in an industry specifically protected by the Bill of Rights - Edward Alwood from Dark Days in the Newsroom

Britian's oldest book prize to Rosalind Belben for Our Horses in Egypt

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Rosalind Belben has won the 2007 James Tait Black Memorial for Fiction. The winning novel,

Michelle De Kretser wins New South Wales Premier's Book of the Year Award for The Lost Dog

Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Lost Dog is a love story set in contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India anchored by the search for a lost dog. "I think the book contrasts in some ways modernity, for want of a better term,...

Salman Rushdie knighted as Best of the Booker Prize winners

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Probably the best-known winner of the Man Booker Prize, Sir Salman Rushdie, is now of...

No consolation prize for Tom Bullough whose book, The Claude Glass, was mistakenly announced as the 2008 Wales Book of the Year

Friday, July 04, 2008

"I should say, to win the Wales Book of the Year prize for The Claude Glass was my absolute dream," said author Tom Bullough recalling the "cruel glimpse of hell" he experienced when he was called to the Hilton Cardiff stage as the winner of the 2008...

Wales Book of the Year to Dannie Abse for The Presence

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

"The unease I felt about writing it was dissipated when I realised the response to the book but I wish the book had never had to be written", was poet Dannie Abse's response after winning the

Margaret Atwood wins Prince of Asturias Award for Letters

Saturday, June 28, 2008

"The leading figure in Canadian literature and one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary fiction", Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2008

Royal Society Prize for Science Books goes to Mark Lynas for Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Thursday, June 19, 2008

What is in store for our planet and our lives as global temperatures rise degree by Celsius degree, up to six degrees of global warming by the year 2100? Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet answer...

Rawi Hage wins wins the €100,000 Impac Dublin literary award for debut novel De Niro's Game

Friday, June 13, 2008

"A magnificent achievement for a writer writing in a third language," was the opinion of the judges. "Its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro's Game as the ...

Rose Tremain captures Orange Broadband Prize

Monday, June 09, 2008

British author Rose Tremain captured the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction last week for her 10th novel,

Red House Children's Book Award to Derek Landy for Skulduggery Pleasant

Monday, June 02, 2008

Derek Landy is the 2008 winner of the Red House Children's Book Award, a UK children's book award that is chosen exclusively by c...

Graham Robb wins 2008 Ondaatje Prize

Monday, May 05, 2008

The Royal Society of Literature has announced that Graham Robb has won the 2008 Ondaatje Prize for his book

Raja Shehadeh wins Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks

Friday, May 02, 2008

Human rights campaigner and lawyer, Raja Shehadeh, has won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for his book Palestin...

2008 Krasnza-Krausz Book Awards announced

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, the catalog for the internationally acclaimed exhibition curated Matthew S. Witkovsky, has been awarde...

Francis Parkman Prize to Jean Edward Smith for FDR

Saturday, April 12, 2008

"After seven years of incompetence in Washington, D.C., I think the country is ready to look back at the type of leadership we had in someone like Roosevelt," Jean Edward Smith said on learning tha...