Commonwealth Writers Prize 2006

Set up in 1987 to encourage new Commonwealth fiction writing and ensure the books receive a wider audience than their own country
 

Best Book Award:
The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Best First Book Award:
Suspended Sentences by Mark McWatt

Guardian First Book Award 2005

Replaced the Guardian Fiction Prize in 2000.   Awarded for an outstanding first book by an author.   Includes fiction and non fiction.   Chosen by a panel of judges.
 

Winner:
Stuart: A Life Backwards
by Alexander Masters
 

2005 Shortlist

• No God but God by Reza Aslan

• The Farm by Richard Benson

• Bombay: Maximum City by Suketu Mehta

• Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
  
   

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Winner:
The Gathering - Ann Enright

2007 Shortlist

• Darkmans - Nichola Barker
• The Gathering - Ann Enright
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mosin Hamid
• Master Pip - Lloyd Jones
• On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
• Animal's People - Indra Sinha

Man Booker International Prize 2005

The Man Booker International Prize is open to writers of any nationality who write in English or whose works are found widely in translation. The £60,000 prize is awarded based an author's body of work rather than a single book.

Orange Prize for Fiction  2007

The prize is for an outstanding novel by a woman, written in English and published in the UK in the previous 12 months.    It is judged by a panel of women.   It was set up because it was felt that women’s writing was often passed over by the major literary prizes.   The first award was in 1995
 

Winner 2007:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 

Shortlist Announced for 2007

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, recently announced the 2007 shortlist. They are:

Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss

Rachel Cusk - Arlington Park

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

Xiaolu Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Jane Harris - The Observations

Anne Tyler - Digging to America

More Information: http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/shortlist.php4
 

Costa Book Awards

Set up in 1971.   Aims to identify and celebrate some of the most enjoyable books first published in the UK during the previous year.   There are 5 categories plus an overall winner.   A panel of 3 judges in each category selects the shortlist and winner (the Children’s panel also includes 2 young judges).   A panel of 9, including 1 from each category selects the overall winner

The winner of the 2006 Costa book awards is:

Steph Penney - Tenderness of Wolves

• The Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkien

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

• His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J K Rowling

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

• Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

• Catch-22, Joseph Heller

• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

• Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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