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BOOK AWARD NEWS
For those who care enough to read the (supposedly) very best.
See Free Stuff for Up-to-date Awards Lists you may copy.
The Short List has been announced for the 2008 Orange Prize:
- Nancy Huston Fault Lines Canadian (11th Novel)
- Sadie Jones The Outcast British (1st Novel)
- Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad British (3rd Novel)
- Heather O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals Canadian (1st Novel)
- Rose Tremain The Road Home British (10th Novel)
- Patricia Wood Lottery American (1st Novel)
 Agatha Award (spring) Cozy Mysteries
Best Novel: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny.
See the Three Pines Mystery Series List.
Best First Novel: Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Anthony Award for Mystery (2008 winners T.B.A. Oct 12th)
2007 winner Best Novel: No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman
2007 winner Best First Novel: Still Life by Louise Penny
See Three Pines Mystery Series List
 Booker Prize (fall) British/Commonwealth Fiction
2007 winner: The Gathering by Anne Enright.
See Short Summary - The Gathering
Dilys Award (spring) Mystery Booksellers' Favorite
2008 winner: Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
Edgar Allan Poe Award (spring) Mystery Fiction
2008 winner Best Novel: Down River by John Hart.
2008 winner Best First Novel: In the Woods by Tana French
Hugo Award (summer/fall) Science Fiction & Fantasy
2007 winner: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Macavity Awards for Mystery Fiction (2008 winners T.B.A. Oct 12th)
2007 winner Best Novel: The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
2007 winner Best First Novel: Mr Clarinet by Nick Stone
 National Book Award (fall) U.S. fiction
2007 winner: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Nebula Award (spring) Science Fiction & Fantasy
2008 winner: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Nobel Prize for Literature (fall) For lifetime work
2007: Doris Lessing (Britain)
Synopsis - The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Orange Prize (summer) Fiction by women
2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria).
See also Synopsis - Half of a Yellow Sun for a chapter-by-chapter summary.
 Pulitzer Prize (spring) U.S. fiction
2008 winner: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
See my detailed summary of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
See my short summary of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
World Fantasy Award (fall)
2007 winner: Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (United States)
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