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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 [...] Debut author Katie Davies won the Waterstone’s children’s book prize for a book entitled The Great Hamster Massacre. The plotline of the book focuses on two girls who set out to solve a murder mystery involving a slew of dead hamsters aimed at children between the ages of seven to ten, making it the first [...] |
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