The Orange Prize announced its longlist for the 2009 prize yesterday, with authors such as Marilynne Robinson, Toni Morrison, Curtis Sittenfeld, Miriam Toews and Samantha Hunt making the cut. A shortlist of six will be announced on April 21, and the winner on June 3. List And ten novels were selected for the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist.Release
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Gary Young has won the Shelley Memorial Award, given annually by the Poetry Society of America to a living American poet “selected with reference to genius and need.” The 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award was given to Kathryn Ma for her collection, “All That Work and Still No Boys,” which will be published this fall by the University of Iowa Press. IndieBound has been named by ReBrand as one of its 100 Global Winning Brands.
Critics Love Bolano's 2666; Takes NBCC
This win was an easy prediction as critics lined up to love Roberto Bolano’s 2666 even before it was published, as was Dexter Filkins’ widely-loved THE FOREVER WAR (for general nonfiction). Other winners: AutobiographyAriel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise BiographyPatrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul Criticism Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter PoetryAugust Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City and Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems(the first time in 35 years that two books have shared a prize)AP
April 2009 Indie Next List
A Reliable Wife: A Novel by Robert GoolrickThe Color of Lightning: A Novel by Paulette JilesThrough Black Spruce: A Novel by Joseph BoydenThe Long Fall by Walter MosleyThe Weight of Heaven: A Novel by Thrity UmrigarDarling Jim: A Novel by Christian MoerkA Fortunate Age: A Novel by Joanna Smith RakoffRevenge of the Spellmans: A Novel by Lisa LutzAll the Living: A Novel by C.E. MorganThe Little Sleep: A Novel by Paul TremblayPicking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin TorneoDevil’s Garden by Ace AtkinsSeeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the […]
ABA Indies Choice Book Award Nominees
Just announced, they include: Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction) * City of Thieves, by David Benioff (Viking) * The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow) * The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial) * Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon) * People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) * Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction) * American Buffalo, by Steven Rinella (Spiegel & Grau) * The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf) * Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg (Other Press) * A Voyage Long and Strange, […]
ABA Revamps Awards Program
With the fading out of the Book Sense branding program, the ABA is renaming their annual prizes the Indies Choice Book Awards. The seven categories have been revamped as well, now honoring an Indie Buzz book (fiction), Best Conversation Starter (nonfiction), Best Author Discovery (debut), Best Read-Aloud Book, Best YA Buzz Book, Most Engaging Author, and the Read-Aloud Hall of Fame. Book finalists will be picked by a bookseller jury, but the pool is still limited to monthly Book Sense/Indie Next list selections. Most Engaging Author Award nominees must be “engaging at in-store appearances” and have “a strong sense of […]