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Current Award Winners

26.01.2010 Costa Winner Announced
25.11.2009 Costa Awards Shortlists
30.10.2009 Guardian First Book Award shortlist
16.09.2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
06.10.2009 Man Booker Winner Announced
10.08.2009 Hugo Awards Winners
05.08.2009 Robin Jenkins Literary Award
28.07.2009 Man Booker Longlist Announced
01.07.2009 BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Winner Announced
22.05.2009 BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Shortlist Announced
21.05.2009 The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize Winner Announced
19.05.2009 Ondaatje Prize Winner Announced
14.05.2009 BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Longlist
22.04.2009 Pulitzer Prize 2009
21.04.2009 Orange Prize Shortlist
17.04.2009 Encore Award
15.04.2009 David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy
03.04.2009 Galaxy British Book Award Winners
02.04.2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Shortlist
02.04.2009 IMPAC Shortlist Announced
31.03.2009 The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
25.03.2009 Orwell Prize shortlist
24.03.2009 Arthur C Clarke Award
18.03.2009 Orange Longlist Announced
10.03.2009 Galaxy British Book Awards
24.02.2009 Warwick Prize Winner Announced
18.02.2009 The Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009 Regional Shortlists Announced
12.02.2009 Channel 4 Political Book of the Year
10.02.2009 Romantic Novelist Award
27.01.2009 Sebastian Barry Wins Overall Costa Prize
26.01.2009 Gaiman Wins Newbery Medal
22.01.2009 Warwick Prize shortlist
12.01.2009 T S Eliot Winner
05.01.2009 Costa Category Winners
03.12.2008 Best Sky Sports Biography shortlist
11.12.2008 The Guardian First Book Award
24.11.2008 William Hill Winner
18.11.2008 Costa Book Awards Shortlist Announced

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Costa Winner Announced

The overall winner of the Costa award has gone to Christopher Reid for his volume of poetry, A Scattering. The category winners were as follows.

Novel

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

First Novel

Beauty by Raphael Selbourne

Biography

The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo

Poetry

A Scattering by Christopher Reid

Children's

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Costa Awards Shortlists

The shortlists for the Costa Book Awards for fiction, non-fiction and children's writing have been announced as follows. The category winners will be announced on 5th January and the overall winner at an awards ceremony on the 26th January. This year's Man Booker winner, Wolf Hall, is among the books shortlisted for the Novel Award.

The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
Family Album by Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
The Music Room by William Fiennes
Coda by Simon Gray
Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead
Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James
One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea
Darwin by Ruth Padel
A Scattering by Christopher Reid
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera

Guardian First Book Award shortlist

The Guardian First Book Award shortlist has been announced, below. The judges included chair, Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead , novelist and poet Tobias Hill, the BBC's Martha Kearney and five Waterstone's reading groups from around the UK.
Commenting on the fact that four of the five titles are fiction (3 novels and 1 short story collection), Claire Armitstead, said: " I don't think this is mere coincidence; it reflects the power of good story-telling, and is a reminder that, despite regular cries that the novel is a dying art form, it is still the one we turn to."

The winner will be announced on 2 December.

The Shortlist:
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
A Swamp Full of Dollars by Michael Peel

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year

The shortlist has been published as follows. The winner was been announced on 29th October as Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed.

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
Animal Spirits by George A. Akerlof
Good Value by Stephen Green
Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
The Match King by Frank Partnoy
In Fed We Trust by Frank Partnoy

Man Booker Winner 2009 Announced

The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is Hilary Mantel for her novel Wolf Hall. The full shortlist is below.

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Hugo Awards Winners

The winners of this year's Hugo Awards, probably the most prestigious SF awards worldwide, have been announced. The Best Novel Award has gone to Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book.
A full list of winners can be found here.

Robin Jenkins Literary Award

The UK's First Environmental Book Prize has announced its shortlist after what the judges describe as 'a detailed and challenging judging process.' The Award is organised on behalf of Forestry Commission Scotland, by Cowalfest who manage a growing list of activities associated with their core aim of developing activity, environmental and cultural tourism. The winner will be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 24.

The Carrifran Wildwood Story (due to be published in September 09) by Myrtle and Philip Ashmole
Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory (not currently available in the UK) by Linda Cracknell
Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by Louisa Gairn
The Last Bear by Mandy Haggith
Star Gazing by Linda Gillard
Serious Things (currently out of print) by Gregory Norminton

Man Booker Longlist Announced

The 13-strong Man Booker longlist, or Man Booker has been announced. Two of the novelists, J M Coetzee and A S Byatt, are previous winners, Coetzee for The Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Disgrace (1999) and Byatt for Possession (1990). William Trevor has been shortlisted four times but never won and two other novelists, Sarah Waters and Colm Toibin have twice made it to the shortlist. William Trevor, previously shortlisted four times for the annual prize, is longlisted for his new novel Love and Summer. The judging panel is chaired by author and broadcaster, James Naughtie, who described this list as one of the strongest in recent years and ‘an outstandingly rich ficional mix’. 2009 The judges are Lucasta Miller, biographer and critic; Michael Prodger, Literary Editor of The Sunday Telegraph; Professor John Mullan, academic, journalist and broadcaster and Sue Perkins, comedian, journalist and broadcaster.

The complete longlist is as follows. The shortlist will be announced on September 8th and the winner on October 6th.

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta by James Lever
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Winner Announced

The winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction is Philip Hoare for Leviathan, the story of a man's obsession with whales.

 

BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Shortlist Announced

The shortlist has been announced of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize 2009. The winner will be announced on 30th June.

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Quantum by Manjit Kumar

The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize Winner Announced

The late Fred Wander has won this year's £4,000 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for The Seventh Well. The judges were Julie Burchill, Will Skidelsky, Nick Viner and Francesca Segal.

The other shortlisted authors and titles were:
The World a Moment Later by Amir Gutfreund
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Dealing with Satan by Ladislaus Lob
Globalising Hatred by Denis MacShane
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager

Ondaatje Prize Winner Announced

The winner of the 2009 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a book of the highest literary merit is Adam Nicolson for his book Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History. The judges were Selina Hastings, Philip Hensher and Peter Porter.

The other shortlisted titles were:
Pollard by Laura Beatty
The Legend of Colton H Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
The Gate of Air by James Buchan
Ian McDonald by Ian McDonald
The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise

BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Longlist

The longlist of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize 2009 was announced today and includes a history of Quantum theory; a memoir of a woman craving silence; an account of bureaucrats, brothels and AIDS on the frontline of sex and drugs; and the story of the Wittgenstein family, one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history.. The shortlist will be announced in late May and the winner on 30th June.

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate
Pompeii by Mary Beard
A Fork in the Road by Andre Brink
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Science by Patricia Fara
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
A Strange Eventful History by Michael Holroyd
Darwin's Island by Steve Jones
Quantum by Manjit Kumar
The Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi
Hester: the Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson's 'Dear Mistress' by Ian McIntyre
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
Sissinghurst by Adam Nicolson
The Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth Pisani
The House of Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh

Pulitzer Prize 2009

The Pulitzer prize winners for 2009 have been announced as follows:

FICTION
Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout

HISTORY
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

BIOGRAPHY
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (due for publication in the UK in June)

POETRY
The Shadow of Sirius by W S Merwin (due for publication in the UK later this year)

GENERAL NON-FICTION
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A Blackmon (not currently available in the UK)

Orange Prize Shortlist

The shortlist for this year's Orange Prize is as follows. The winner will be announced in June:

Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

 

Encore Award 2009

The shortlist for the Encore Award, a biennial prize for second novels, has been announced. The winner will be announced on 19th May:

Mortmain by Judy Corbalis
Illuminations by Eva Hoffman
The Birthday Party by Panos Karnezis
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
The Peacock Throne by Sujit Saraf
Animal's People by Indra Sinha

David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy

Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (currently unavailable in the UK)
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

Galaxy British Book Award Winners

The winners of the Galaxy British Book Awards have been announced as follows:

Galaxy book of the year

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

Author of the Year

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Biography of the Year

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Crime Thriller of the Year

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Popular Fiction

Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks

Popular Non Fiction

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

New Writer of the Year

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Children's book of the year

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Outstanding Achievement Award

Michael Palin

Independent Foreign Fiction Shortlist

Arts Council England (ACE) has announced the shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which awards both the novelist and the translator, in association with Champagne Taittinger. The winner will be announced on 14 May.

Voice Over by Celine Curiol
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
The Siege by Ismail Kadare
The Armies by Evelio Rosero
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Friendly Fire by A.B. Yehoshua

IMPAC Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced. The winner will be announced on 11 June.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Jean Echenoz – Ravel (currently unavailable)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Michael Thomas - Man Gone Down (currently unavailable)

The Jewish Quarterly Wingate prize

The shortlist has been announced for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. The winner will be announced on 20th May. This is the only UK prize to recognise writing by Jewish and non-Jewish authors, which stimulates an interest in themes of Jewish concern while appealing to the general reader.

The World a Moment Later by Amir Gutfreund
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Dealing with Satan by Ladislaus Lob
Globalising Hatred by Denis MacShane
The Seventh Well by Fred Wander
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager

Orwell Prize shortlist

The six-strong shortlist for the Orwell Prize for political writing has been revealed, with Andrew Brown's Fishing in Utopia (Granta) and Owen Matthews' Stalin's Children (Bloomsbury) up for the prize, which is judged by Jenny Abramsky, chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund; former editor of the TLS, Ferdinand Mount; and journalist and author, Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
Director of the Prize, Jean Seaton, said: 'These books cover a wide range of topics, of countries and of time. But they all illuminate our present and our present problems. If you want to understand what Britain is today, go and read these books.'
The winner will be annnounced on 22nd April

The shortlist in full:

Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown
Reappraisals by Tony Judt
Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews
Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid
The White War by Mark Thompson

Arthur C Clarke Award

The shortlist has been announced for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction. The winner will be announced on 29th April.

The shortlist in full:
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham

Orange Longlist Announced

The longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced as follows. The shortlist will be announced on 7 April and the winner in June. The judges are Fi Glover (chair), broadcaster; Bidisha, writer and novelist; Sarah Churchwell, journalist and academic; Kira Cochrane, journalist and Martha Lane Fox, entrepreneur. Just under half of the longlisted titles are American, and include Toni Morrison, but there are also first-time novelists on the list, including Gaynor Arnold, whose novel was also longlisted for last year’s Man Booker Prize.

The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
Strange Music by Laura Fish
Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight by Gina Ochsner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber

Galaxy British Book Awards

The shortlists have been announced for the 2009 Galaxy British Book Awards, the Oscars of the book world. The winners will be announced on 3 April.

Richard & Judy Best Read

The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
December by Elizabeth H. Winthrop
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Author of the Year

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

Biography of the Year

At My Mother's Knee ... by Paul O'Grady
Coming Back to Me by Marcus Trescothick
Dear Fatty by Dawn French
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Miracles of Life by J.G. Ballard
That's Another Story by Julie Walters

Crime Thriller of the Year

The Business by Martina Cole
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
Revelation by C.J. Sansom
When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

Popular Fiction

Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

Popular Non Fiction

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
The Mighty Book of Boosh by Julian Barratt
Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

New Writer of the Year

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
One of Us by Melissa Benn

Children's book of the year

Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman
Horrid Henry Robs the Bank by Francesca Simon
"Captain Underpants" and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People by Dav Pilkey
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

Warwick Prize Winner Announced

Naomi Klein has won the first Warwick Prize for Writing for her latest book The Shock Doctrine. Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein, was previously best known for her exposé of commercial globalisation No Logo.

The Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009 Regional Shortlists Announced

The shortlists for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best book and best first book from Europe and South Asia have been announced (see below). Chair of the Judges, Professor Paranjape, commented: ‘What distinguished this year's entries was a preponderance of well-established authors including Salman Rushdie, Philip Hensher, Shashi Deshpande and Jhumpa Lahiri in the Best Book category and some very talented new voices such as Mohammed Hanif and Joe Dunthorne in the Best First Book category. Though most of the short-listed authors either live in the UK or are British subjects, they are actually quite diverse in their origins.’

The Commonwealth Writers' Prize aims to reward the best Commonwealth fiction written in English. The two Europe and South Asia regional winners that emerge from the shortlists will be announced on 12 March 2009. These two winners will then enter the final phase of the competition and go on to compete with the other finalists from Africa, Canada and the Caribbean and the South Pacific for the overall Best Book and Best First Book award. The winners will be announced on 16 May at the Auckland Writers' and Readers Festival (AWRF).

The Europe and South Asia shortlists in full:

Best Book Award - Europe and South Asia
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Shashi Deshpande - The Country of Deceit (not currently available in the UK)
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

Best Book Award - Europe and South Asia
The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman Addonia
Broken by Daniel Clay
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Breathless in Bombay by Murzban F. Shroff

Channel 4 Political Book of the Year

The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics has won the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award.

The other titles in the shortlist were:

Speaking for Myself by Cherie Blair
Cameron on Cameron by David Cameron
A Political Suicide by Norman Fowler
Prezza by John Prescott

Romantic Novelist Award

Julia Gregson’s East of the Sun a story about love, friendship and adventure, has won the Romantic Novel of the Year 2009. Organised by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, the award recognises the best of the year’s novels exploring the deep mysteries of the human heart. The other shortlisted titles were:

The shortlist in full:

Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi
The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas

Costa Overall Winner 2008

Sebastian Barry has won the Overall Prize in the 2008 Costa Book Awards for The Secret Scripture.

Newbery Medal

Neil Gaiman has won America's most prestigious children's fiction prize, the Newbery medal, for his novel The Graveyard Book.

Warwick Prize 2009 Shortlist

Six titles have been shortlisted for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, among them the Guardian First Book Award winner Alex Ross for his history of 20th-century classical music The Rest is Noise, a polemic from No Logo author Naomi Klein and a novel from Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas.

The prize, whose theme this year is ‘complexity’ is ‘an international cross-disciplinary biennial award open to substantial pieces of writing in the English language, in any genre or form’.

The judging panel comprises: Guardian journalist Maya Jaggi; novelist, translator and academic Maureen Freely; Britain's first book blogger Stephen Mitchelmore and University of Warwick mathematician Professor Ian Stewart, and China Miéville as Chair.

The winner will be announced on 24th February at the University of Warwick.

The shortlist in full:

Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi
The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas

The T S Eliot Winner

The winner of this year's T S Eliot prize for poetry is Jen Hadfield for Nigh-no-place.

The Costa Book Awards Category Winners

The category winners of the Costa Book Awards are as follows. The overall winner will be announced on 27th January.

Novel
Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
First Novel
Sadie Jones - The Outcast
Biography
Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards the End
Poetry 
Adam Foulds - The Broken Word
Children's 
Michelle Magorian - Just Henry

Best Sky Sports Biography shortlist

The shortlist has been announced for the Sky Sports Biography award; the winner will be announced on March 18th. Recent William Hill winner, Marcus Trescothick, is bound to be hoping for a double!

Black and Blue by Paul Canoville
My England Years by Sir Bobby Charlton
Better Than Sex by Mick Fitzgerald
Coming Back to Me by Marcus Trescothick
James Whitham by James Whitham
In Pursuit of Glory by Bradley Wiggins

The Guardian First Book Award

The winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2008, designed to reward the finest new literary talent, is Alex Ross for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. The other shortlisted titles were:

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

William Hill Winner

The winner of the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year is Marcus Trescothick for his cricketing memoir, Coming Back to Me.

The other shortlisted titles were:
Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
The Austerity Olympics by Janie Hampton
Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons
Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

Costa Book Awards Shortlists Announced

Four male novelists have been nominated for the Novel category shortlist at this year's Costa Book Awards, after last year's all-female list. Nonegarian Diana Athill has been nominated for the biography prize, vying against debut author Sathnam Sanghera, while Orange-shortlisted The Outcast by Sadie Jones is up for First Novel.
The awards are open to books first published in the UK or Ireland between 1st November, 2007 and 31 October, 2008. There are five categories and each category winner receives £5,000, with the overall winner, announced on 27th January, receiving £25,000
This year's judges include author Lisa Jewell and broadcaster Michael Buerk

Novel
Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
Louis De Bernieres - A Partisan's Daughter
Chris Cleave - The Other Hand
Patrick McGrath - Trauma

First Novel Award
Poppy Adams - The Behaviour of Moths
Sadie Jones - The Outcast
Jennie Rooney - Inside the Whale
Tom Rob Smith - Child 44

Biography Award
Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards the End
Judith Mackrell - The Bloomsbury Ballerina
Sathnam Sanghera - If You Don't Know Me by Now
Jackie Wullschlager - Chagall

Costa Poetry Award
Ciaran Carson - For All We Know
Adam Foulds - The Broken Word
Kathryn Simmonds - Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Greta Stoddart - Salvation Jane

Children's Book Award
Keith Gray - Ostrich Boys
Saci Lloyd - The Carbon Diaries 2015
Michelle Magorian - Just Henry
Jenny Valentine - Broken Soup

The Booktrust Teenage Prize Winner

The winner of the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize is Patrick Ness for The Knife of Never Letting Go.

The other shortlisted titles were:
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Apache by Tanya Landman
The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan
Creature of the Night by >Kate Thompson

TS Eliot Shortlist Announced

The shortlist has been announced for the 15th T S Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the UK and Ireland. This year's judging panel comprises poets Andrew Motion, Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill. The winner will be announced on the 12th January 2009, and all 10 poets will appear at a poetry reading on the eve of the event at the Southbank Centre in London.

Moniza Alvi - Europa
Peter Bennet - The Glass Swarm
Ciaran Carson - For All We Know
Robert Crawford - Full Volume
Maura Dooley - Life Under Water
Mark Doty - Theories and Apparitions
Jen Hadfield - Nigh-no-place
Mick Imlah - The Lost Leader
Glyn Maxwell - Hide Now
Stephen Romer - Yellow Studio

William Hill Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the 20th William Hill prize was announced today. Click here to save up to 30% on the entire longlist from which these six were drawn. The winner will be announced on 24th November. The shortlist is as follows:

Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
The Austerity Olympics by Janie Hampton
Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons
Coming Back to Me by Marcus Trescothick
Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

Man Booker Winner Announced

A debut novel, The White Tiger, has won this year’s Man Booker prize, beating competition from such established writers as Amitav Ghosh and Philip Hensher. The shortlist was as follows:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

Read our Fiction Buyer's take on this year's shortlist.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 announced

The winner of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature was announced as French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. For being an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

More information & the author can be found on the Nobel website. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/bio-bibl.html