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The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2008 has been awarded to the Belgian author Paul Verhaeghen for his novel Omega Minor . Verhaeghen is the first author to have both written... (09/05/2008)
The Royal Society of Literature has announced that the winner of the 2008 Ondaatje Prize is Graham Robb for his book The Discovery of France . This is an annual... (29/04/2008)
The shortlists for the latest James Tait Black Memorial Prizes have been announced. The prizes are the country's oldest literary awards, comprising two £10,000 awards for books published in 2007,... (29/04/2008)
Raja Shehadeh’s book, Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape has won the Orwell prize for political writing. The book describes - through a series of six walks over 26... (29/04/2008)
The shortlist for this year's prestigious Carnegie Medal for children's writing has been announced. In contention for the prize are: Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Age range: 10+) Ruby Red... (22/04/2008)
The six books still in contention for this year's Orange Prize for fiction have been revealed. They are: Fault Lines by Nancy Huston The Outcast by Sadie Jones When We... (17/04/2008)
The inagural International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been won by Egyptian novelist Baha Taher with Sunset Oasis . The $50,000 prize, styling itself the 'Arabic Booker', was launched last... (11/04/2008)
The three books shortlisted for the Orange New Writers Prize have been announced. They are: The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna The Voluptuous Delights of... (09/04/2008)
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