Given this morning at the ALA’s mid-winter meeting, the Newbery Medal for 2009 went to Neil Gaiman’s THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. The Caldecott Medal went to THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson. For honor books and the many other awards presented this morning, visit the ALA’s site or Twitter feed.
Awards
NBCC Award Nominees
Book critics were ready to declare Roberto Bolano’s 2666 the novel of the year before it was even published so the National Book Critics Circle might as well have given it the award rather than just a nomination on Saturday, along with Dexter Filkins’ everybody’s Top Ten list THE FOREVER war. But the other categories and their nominees range a little further (and M. Glenn Talyor’s nominated novel The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart comes from the West Virginia University Press): FictionRoberto Bolano, 2666Marilynne Robinson, HomeAleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus ProjectM. Glenn Talyor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth TaggartElizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge Nonfiction […]
More Announcements: Perseus Goes Mobile, Awards, Personnel
Perseus Books Group has partnered with mobile technology company Incelligence to launch a handful of book-based reference products for mobile phones: The Wine Enthusiast Pocket Guide to Spirits; Quit: Read This Book And Stop Smoking; and Your Pregnancy Week by Week, in both English and Spanish versions. Incelligence’s distribution network includes such major carriers such as AT&T, Orange, SouthernLINC, T-Mobile, and Kajeet. They have a library of over 100 mobile apps. In awards, the Jerusalem Book Fair prize will be given to Haruki Murakami. French playwright Timothee de Fombelle’s TOBY ALONE won the UK’s Marsh award for children’s literature in […]
Borders Original Voices Winners
Borders announced the winners of their annual awards: FictionSteven Galloway’s debut novel, THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO The awards committee called it “a haunting story of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people trying to find and retain their humanity in the midst of war and siege.” Non-fictionEric Weiner, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World Young Adult/Independent ReaderTanya Landman, I AM APACHE Picture BookAdam Rubin and illustrator Daniel Salmieri, THOSE DARN SQUIRRELS!
SFWA to Honor Victoria Strauss
Co-founder of the Writer Beware website (along with Ann Crispin) Victoria Strauss will be honored by Science Fiction Writers Association at their Nebula Awards with a special Service Award. Organization president Russell Davis comments, “Her work with Writer Beware has been invaluable to our members and the writing community at large, so I’m very pleased to offer her this recognition of her outstanding service.” Strauss says, “Ten years ago, when WB was just getting started, I could never have imagined how much we would accomplish and how far we’d come. Beginning as a two-person committee and a modest subsection of […]
The February 2009 Indie Next List
Cutting for Stone: A Novel by Abraham VergheseLittle Bee: A Novel by Chris CleaveThe Help: A Novel by Kathryn StockettThe School of Essential Ingredients: A Novel by Erica BauermeisterDog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer QuinnThe Leisure Seeker: A Novel by Michael ZadoorianHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie FordAddition: A Novel by Toni JordanIrreplaceable: A Novel by Stephen LovelyHands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron UhlbergThe Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town that Raised Them by […]