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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
- Pulitzer Prize
- Winner: Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son
- Best Translated Book Award
- Women's Prize
- Winner: A.M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- Winner: Kevin Barry's City of Bohane
- 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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Hard to come by is right…the Book Depository doesn’t have it, and of course it’s not in bookshops here in Oz.
Frustrating!
I daresay the situation is very similar here; if not, I’ll get hold of it asap.
The publisher (who prints his own copies on a 1960s press) is producing them at the rate of 1,000 a week and says he now has shipments on the way to most Canadian independents. Indigo, which is Canada’s mega-chain, says not a single one of its stores has a copy — the publisher says he’ll get to their order soon.
Library readers are in for a longer wait. Toronto reports 211 holds, Halifax 134 and Vancouver 96 — alas, none of the three libraries bought one of the 600 first printing editions, so those lists will only grow.
The good news for international readers is that Skibsrud signed with Hienemann’s in the UK last week and they are promising a version in April — which of course will be on the Book Depository.
Thanks for the update, Kevin. I see that none of the four used copies I saw on Amazon when the book won is still up for sale (each had a price-tag of around $200). I wonder if they each sold and if others have been posted and are selling for even higher prices.
[...] Giller Prize Winner has been announced. The chosen collection of short stories is enticing. The 2010 Giller Prize Winner has also been [...]
The cheapest I found was £134 quid and assorted pence so I’ll hang fire!