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Book Awards News/Prizes
July, 2010
Man Booker Longlist 2010
The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. A total of 138 books were nominated, and 13 have been chosen for the final review.
View the longlist on the site.
July, 2010
Branford Boase Award 2010
Lucy Christopher’s debut title, Stolen, has won the 2010 Branford Boase Award, which is given each year to the most outstanding work of fiction for children by a first time novelist.
June, 2010
2010 CILIP Carnegie and Kate
Greenaway Winners
The winners of the 2010 CILIP Carnegie, and Kate Greenaway
Medals have been announced. Neil Gaiman's
The Graveyard Book won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and Harry & Hopper by Freya Blackwood has won the Kate Greenaway Medal.
View the shortlists for the 2010 CILIP Carnegie, and Kate Greenaway Medals on the site.
January, 2010
2009 Costa Children's Book Award
Patrick Ness’s latest title, The Ask and the Answer, the sequel to The Knife of Never Letting Go and the second in the Chaos Walking series, has been named the overall winner of the Children’s Book Award. The Costa judges said "From the first word, we were gripped by this dazzlingly-imagined, morally complex, compulsively-plotted tale. We are convinced that this is a major achievement in the making."
April, 2009
The Galaxy Book of the Year 2009
The Galaxy Book of the Year is determined by an elite and bi-partisan chapter of the Academy of the British Book Industry. The winner is : The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate Summerscale.
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