The Orange Prize for Fiction honors the most excellent, accessible, and original work of fiction written in English by a woman. The shortlist for the 2012 award is:
The Orange Prize for Fiction honors the most excellent, accessible, and original work of fiction written in English by a woman. The shortlist for the 2012 award is:
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (available 9/12)
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, February 26. Celebrate by watching one of the previous Best Picture winners!
The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, February 26. Celebrate by watching one of the previous Best Picture winners!
2010 – The King’s Speech
2009 – The Hurt Locker
2008 – Slumdog Millionaire
2007 – No Country for Old Men
2006 – The Departed
2005 – Crash
2004 – Million Dollar Baby
2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002 – Chicago
2001 – A Beautiful Mind
2000 – Gladiator
1999 – American Beauty
1998 – Shakespeare in Love
1997 – Titanic
1996 – The English Patient
1995 – Braveheart
1994 – Forrest Gump
1993 – Schindler’s List
1992 – Unforgiven
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
1990 – Dances With Wolves
1989 – Driving Miss Daisy
1988 – Rain Man
1987 – The Last Emperor
1986 – Platoon
1985 – Out of Africa
1984 – Amadeus
1983 – Terms of Endearment
1982 – Gandhi
1981 – Chariots of Fire
1980 – Ordinary People
1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer
1978 – The Deer Hunter
1977 – Annie Hall
1976 – Rocky
1975 – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1974 – The Godfather Part II
1973 – The Sting
1972 – The Godfather
1971 – The French Connection
1970 – Patton
1969 – Midnight Cowboy
1968 – Oliver!
1967 – In the Heat of the Night
1966 – A Man for All Seasons
1965 – The Sound of Music
1964 – My Fair Lady
1963 – Tom Jones
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia
1961 – West Side Story
1960 – The Apartment
1959 – Ben-Hur
1958 – Gigi
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956 – Around the World in 80 Days
1955 – Marty
1954 – On the Waterfront
1953 – From Here to Eternity
1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth
1951 – An American in Paris
1950 – All About Eve
1949 – All the Kings Men
1948 – Hamlet
1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives
1945 – The Lost Weekend
1944 – Going My Way
1943 – Casablanca
1942 – Mrs. Miniver
1941 – How Green Was My Valley
1940 – Rebecca
1939 – Gone with the Wind
1938 – You Can’t Take It with You
1937 – The Life of Emile Zola
1936 – The Great Ziegfeld
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty
1934 – It Happened One Night
1932/1933 – Cavalcade
1931/1932 – Grand Hotel
1930/1931 – Cimarron
1929/1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front
1928/1929 – The Broadway Melody
1927/1928 – Wings
The National Book Critics Circle Finalists are:
The National Book Critics Circle Finalists are:
FICTION
Open City by Teju Cole
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
NONFICTION
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth
BIOGRAPHY
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution by Mary Gabriel
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2011.
Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television published or produced in 2011.
BEST NOVEL
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
Gone by Mo Hayder
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt
Field Gray by Philip Kerr
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Last to Fold by David Duffy
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis
BEST FACT CRIME
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal
MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely
The 2011 National Book Award winners:
The 2011 National Book Award winners:
FICTION
Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
NONFICTION
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes is the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes is the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Barnes has been shortlisted for the prize before, for his novels Arthur & George, England, England, and Flaubert’s Parrot.
The Finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards have been announced by the National Book Foundation.
The Finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards have been announced by the National Book Foundation.
FICTION
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
NONFICTION
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
The Edgar Awards and the Agatha Awards were recently awarded to mysteries published in 2010.
EDGAR AWARDS
Presented by the Mystery Writers of America, the Edgar Awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television.
BEST NOVEL
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvouz with American History by Yunte Huang
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
AGATHA AWARDS
Named in honor of Agatha Christie, the Agatha Awards honor the “traditional mystery,” mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence.
BEST NOVEL
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
BEST FIRST NOVEL
The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
BEST NON-FICTION
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran
The Hugo Awards, awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy, have announced the 2011 nominations. The nominees for Best Novel are:
The Hugo Awards, awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy, have announced the 2011 nominations.
The nominees for Best Novel are:
All Clear by Connie Willis
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Feed by Mira Grant
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning books are:
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning books are:
FICTION
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
HISTORY
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
BIOGRAPHY
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
POETRY
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
GENERAL NONFICTION
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
