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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

Giller Winners

2011 – Esi Edugyan: Half-Blood Blues
2010 – Johanna Skibsrud: The Sentimentalists
2009 – Linden MacIntyre: The Bishop’s Man
2008 – Joseph Boyden: Through Black Spruce
2007 – Elizabeth Hay: Late Nights on Air
2006 – Vincent Lam: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
2005 – David Bergen: The Time In Between
2004 – Alice Munro: Runaway
2003 – M.G. Vassanji: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
2002 – Austin Clarke: The Polished Hoe
2001 – Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan
2000 – Michael Ondaatje: Anil’s Ghost; David Adams Richards: Mercy Among the Children
1999 – Bonnie Burnhard: A Good House
1998 – Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
1997 – Mordecai Richler: Barney’s Version
1996 – Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
1995 – Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance
1994 – M.G. Vassanji: The Book of Secret

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