Posted by Steven on 23/8/2011, 12:52:45, in reply to "Ideas for 2012"
76.186.51.185
These are the three most recent winners (excluding books we’ve already read) of all the major literary awards I know of for books published in English.
The hottest award winner in recent months is A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan--three major awards already and perhaps more to come.
One thing that strikes me looking at this list is that as many as half the award-winning authors are women. Our reading list for this year, however, had only one female author (Iris Murdoch).
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2010: Tatjana Soli - The Lotus Eaters
2009: A. S. Byatt - The Children’s Book
2008: Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
Man Booker Prize
2010: Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
2009: Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
2007: Anne Enright - The Gathering
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
2011: Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love
2010: Rana Dasgupta - Solo
2009: Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
Costa Novel Award
2010: Maggie O’Farrell - The Hand That First Held Mine
2009: Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
2008: Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
Costa First Novel Award
2010: Kishwar Desai - Witness the Night
2009: Raphael Selbourne - Beauty
2008: Sadie Jones - The Outcast
Giller Prize
2010: Johanna Skibsrud - The Sentimentalists
2009: Linden MacIntyre - The Bishop’s Man
2008: Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce
Governor General’s Literary Award
2010: Dianne Warren - Cool Water
2009: Kate Pullinger - The Mistress of Nothing
2008: Nino Ricci - The Origin of Species
IMPAC Dublin Award
2011: Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
2010: Gerbrand Bakker - The Twin
2009: Michael Thomas - Man Gone Down
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
2011: Santiago Roncagliolo - Red April
2010: Philippe Claudel - Brodeck’s Report
2009: Evelio Rosero - The Armies
Irish Book Awards
2010: Emma Donoghue - Room
2009: Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
2008: Anne Enright - The Gathering
L.A. Times Book Prize for Fiction
2010: Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009: Rafael Yglesias - A Happy Marriage
2008: Marilynne Robinson - Home
Man Asian Literary Prize
2010: Bi Feiyu - Three Sisters
2009: Su Tong - The Boat to Redemption
2008: Miguel Syjuco - Ilustrado
Miles Franklin Award
2011: Kim Scott - That Deadman Dance
2010: Peter Temple - Truth
2009: Tim Winton - Breath
National Book Award for Fiction
2010: Jaimy Gordon - Lord of Misrule
2009: Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
2008: Peter Matthiessen - Shadow Country
National Book Critics Circle Award
2010: Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009: Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
2008: Roberto Bolano - 2666
Orange Prize
2011: Tea Obreht - The Tiger’s Wife
2010: Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna
2009: Marilynne Robinson - Home
PEN/Faulkner Award
2011: Deborah Eisenberg - The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
2010: Sherman Alexie - War Dances
2009: Joseph O’Neill - Netherland
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2011: Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010: Paul Harding - Tinkers
2009: Elizabeth Stout - Olive Kitteridge
Message Thread
« Back to index