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2011 Book Awards

  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Tomas Tranströmer
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
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2010 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Sherman Alexie's War Dances
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brigid Pasulka's A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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2009 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Roberto Bolano's 2666
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Michael Dahlie's A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Herta Müller
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

IMPAC Winner

Michael Thomas’s Man Gone Down won this year’s IMPAC award. I remember the New York Times picked it as one of their five best books of fiction a couple of years ago, but when I picked it up on their recommendation I didn’t see any other reason to buy it. Not sure that will change with this win.

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