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2013 Book Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Winner: Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- The Story Prize
- Winner: Claire Vaye Watkins' Battleborn
- PEN/Faulkner Award
- Winner: Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Winner: Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds
- Best Translated Book Award
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Giller Prize
- Shadow Winner: November
- Winner: November
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2012 Book Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Winner: Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision
- PEN/Faulkner Award
- Winner: Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Winner: Teju Cole: Open City
- Best Translated Book Award
- Orange Prize
- Winner: Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- Winner: Jon McGregor: Even the Dogs
- Man Booker Prize
- Winner: Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
- Nobel Prize in Literature
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2011 Book Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- The Story Prize
- Winner: Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall
- 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
- Best Translated Book Award
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin
- 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
- The Story Prize
- Winner: Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
- 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
- Best Translated Book Award
- PEN/Malamud Award
- Winner: Nam Le & Edward P. Jones
- Orange Prize
- Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mr.Alexie is also being honored here!
http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/sherman-alexie.html
Another question – Will you be attending Ian McEwan’s talk at the 92nd Y?
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?category=Programs+%2D+Literary+Readings888Main+Reading+Series888&productid=T%2DTP5MS27
Well, I’ve ordered it on the shameful basis that I am clearly a glory-chasing berk that wants to keep hip to the award winners…and also as you say you’ve enjoyed his previous work of course. If it successfully melds poetry and prose in the way suggested, it should be good.
Hi Isabel, thanks for the links! And as far as going to hear McEwan, I’m afraid I won’t. Five years ago I would have been thrilled, but since then my admiration of his work has flagged and I have next to no interest in the man himself.
Lee, I hope it lives up to the excitement you’re showing. I have to admit, I’m getting excited to read it too. Let me know how you like it!
I will!
Interesting what you say about McEwan there: he was one of my favourites a while back but my interest in him has diminished, not sure why. Yeah, five years ago I would’ve pre-ordered Solar. Nowadays, it’s a library-lend with curiosity rather than excitement the motivating factor. I remember reading Amsterdam in a quick blur of mesmerised obliviousness. Odd.