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Book Awards News/Prizes

July, 2011

2011 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Winners

The winners of the 2011 CILIP Carnegie, and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced. Patrick Ness's Monsters of Men won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and Farther by Grahame Bakeer-Smith has won the Kate Greenaway Medal.
View the shortlists for the 2011 CILIP Carnegie, and Kate Greenaway Medals on the site.

January, 2011

2010 Costa Children's Book Award

‘A stunning debut novel without a false note. Accomplished and powerful, it changes the way you think.’ Judges, Costa Children’s Book Award. The writer Jason Wallace has won this year for Out of Shadows

October, 2010

Man Booker Winner 2010

The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the winner for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. A total of 138 books were nominated, and the winner is Howard Jacobson's witty novel The Finkler Question.

October, 2010

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010

The Prize is unique in that it is judged by children's authors themselves, and no-one can win it more than once. The African-born writer Michelle Paver has won this year for Ghost Hunter, the sixth and final book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series.

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.

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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