Awards

Fanny Howe, 68, has been awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000, given to a “living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.” Her poetry collections include Gone (University of California Press, 2003), Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000), On the Ground (Graywolf Press, 2004), and The Lyrics (Graywolf, 2007). She has also written 5 novels and two collections of essays. In other people news, Ron Charles has been promoted to deputy editor of the Washington Post’s Book World. Via Twitter yesterday he reported that the American Academy of Arts and Letters is giving their Academy Awards in […]

Sandra Dallas’s eighth novel PRAYERS FOR SALE is Barnes & Noble’s 13th chainwide recommendation.

The list includes on author, DuPree, from the once-controversial Macmillan New Writing imprint: An Equal Stillness, by Francesca Kay Miles From Nowhere, by Nami Mun The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, by Ann Weisgarber The winner will be named June 3. (The shortlist for the “regular” Orange prize will be announced at the London Book Fair, on April 21.)Site

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyBrooklyn by Colm ToibinThe Last Child: A Novel by John HartThe Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif LarsenThe Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. BehaWoodsburner: A Novel by John PipkinSecret Son: A Novel by Laila LalamiDark Places: A Novel by Gillian FlynnThe Wildwater Walking Club: A Novel by Claire Cook                     Sag Harbor: A Novel by Colson WhiteheadValeria’s Last Stand: A Novel by Marc FittenOn the Divinity of Second Chances: A […]

Here are the eight titles in the running for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Dominican / American) Ravel by Jean Echenoz (French) in translationThe Reluctant Fundamentalist  by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistani / British) The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland (American) The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen (Norwegian) in translation. The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt (American) Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Indian / British) Man Gone Down by Micheal Thomas (American) The winner will be named June 11.