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BOOK AWARD NEWS For those who care enough to read the (supposedly) very best.
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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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