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The poignant story of a girl’s relationship with her sick grandmother, Artichoke Hearts, earned author Sita Brahmachari the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize of £5,000. Her late mother-in-law, Rosie Harrison, an activist and artist was the inspiration for the novel. Because of the books portrayal of a positive relationship between grandchildren and grandparents and tackled head-on [...]  Rowan Somerville is the winner of the 2010 Literary Review Bad Sex Award. The award was instituted in 1993. Its creator was, the now deceased, Auberon Waugh. Its stated purpose was to attract attention to rude, coarse, and even mechanical passages describing sex in modern literature. The job of the award was to discourage such [...] The Costa Book Awards have run into an interesting problem. The Costas are among the most prestigious book awards in the country and selects winners in 5 categories, which are novels, first novels, poetry, children’s books, and biographies. The tradition is to work down to 4 finalists in each category before a winner of each [...] The Galaxy National Book Awards featured some surprise winners. For instance, Stephen Fry won out over competition from Lord Sugar and Tony Blair to collect Biography of the Year, for his book, The Fry Chronicles. It was the second volume of his personal memoirs. Celebrities from the book-publishing world came out to see veterans like Martin [...] The Booker prize was given to a funny book for the first time in its history. The author was the much-praised Howard Jacobson who won for his novel, “The Finkler Question.” Jacobson admitted having his heart set on winning the prize for many years, although he had never even been short listed. At 68, he says [...] Philip Gross has had a great year as the Glamorgan university professor won the TS Eliot prize in the face of many well known names and last night he added the coveted Welsh Book of the Year award to his list of accomplishments. Gross took home the TS Eliot prize for his mediation book The Water [...] A novel with ambition that takes on the communist American witch-hunts of the 1950s as well as the Mexican revolution was named the recipient of the Orange prize for fiction. The Lacuna, written by Barbara Kingsolver, received the reward along with £30,000, which is not bad for the author’s first novel since 2000. The novelist beat out [...] 30 years after JG Farrell passed away he has become a member of an exclusive club, those that have won two Booker prizes. Although it would seem that the author lost his shot to win another award after he died in a fishing accident in 1979, through a quirk of history his novel Troubles was [...] David Almond, the British author of Skelig, was selected by children’s literature experts from around the globe as the winner of the most prestigious prize that can be won by a child author. Previously, Almond has also been honoured with a Whitbread children’s prize and the Carnegie medal for Skellig which is the story of a [...] The British made a strong showing at the National Book Critics’ Circle awards this year. The NBCC is a non-profit organization of editors and critics based in New York, and accepts nominations and submissions from authors worldwide, as long as the material is published in the U.S. Three of the six prizes awarded at the March ceremony [...] |
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