TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Winner
Derek Walcott
, 81, has won the £15,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his 2010 collection White Egrets. Mr. Walcott (above) is a poet that has previously been recognised with no less than the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.Award Tragic comments
Guardian First Book Award
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Wool by Alexandra Harris has won the GBP 10,000 prize. Other shortlisted
2010 Galaxy National Book Award Winners
One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton); The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to VE Day by Andrew Marr (Pan); Zog by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books);Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press);Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Fourth Estate);The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph); The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal (Chatto & Windus) ; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) - Full details OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Terry Pratchett & Martin Amis
2010 Booker Prize Winner Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) has taken out this years £50,000 prize. Other shortlisted
James Tait Memorial Prize Winners The Children's Book
, by A.S. Byatt, won the fiction category whilst John Carey's William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
won the biography genre. Full shortlists
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction 2010--The Winner
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North... Barbara Demick . Read more |
Commonwealth Writers 
Prize 2010 Winners
Siddon Rock by Australian author Glenda Guest (Vintage) is the winner of the ₤5000 (A$8,250) best first book award in this year's Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Solo
by Rana Dasgupta (Fourth Estate) was the winner of the overall Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book. More including regional winners
Cut to the Heart of Film, TV and Books with the Crime Thriller Awards. Check out the Crime Thriler Store to find out all the details of the winners and the full shortlists.
The Desmond Elliott Prize Winner
The Girl with Glass Feet Ali Shaw
"'Magical' Guardian 'Ali Shaw has written a rare orchid of a book, beautiful and eccentric and exquisitely sad' Patrick Ness 'Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story... A magical fable of fate and resignation.' Guardian 'Virtually weightless in execution... Read more
›See Ali Shaw's Author Page
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
The Lost Booker Prize Winner
Troubles J.G. Farrell
'It's funny, sad and beautifully written; it's prescient, wise, original and unexpectedly eccentric. Vote JG, I say. Or even better, just read him.' (Rachel Cooke OBSERVER ) 'Troubles has everything: great story, compelling characters, believable dialogue and big ideas. It's a book good enough to win the Booker in... Read more...›See more from J.G. Farrell
2010 Spear’s Book Award Winners
Spears, we believe, are a wealth management company who also publish a glossy mag.The mix of award categories presents a selection of books that will no doubt appeal to their demographic. Full Lists
€100,000 IMPAC Dublin International
The 2010 winner isThe Twin
by Gerbrand Bakker (Dutch) in translation. Harvill Secker. Full shortllist
Congratulations to Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Lacuna the story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthy-ite America. More
Orange New Writers
The Boy Next Door
by Zimbabwean author Irene Sabatini. More
₤30000 Scottish Arts Council’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
The 2010 Book of the Year is by Donald Worster - A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (Oxford University Press) . Other listed
British Authors Win Major US Prize
Booker Prize Winner, Hilary Mantel's, Wolf Hall and Diana Anthill's British Book Award Finalist, Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill , have won their categories in one of America's most prestigious prizes, the National Book Circle Critics Awards. Winners Full lists
The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music; marking the 94th edition of the annual American awards. More
Best Translated Book Award Winner - The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven
USA
The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on April 12. This year's winners include a surprise in fiction, Paul Harding's debut novel, Tinkers, and T.J. Stiles's biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The First Tycoon, which also won the National Book Award:
Montana Winners Emily Perkins for, Novel About My Wife. Described as "sophisticated and urban", registering the nuances of class, concealment and reserve in domestic English life.
Wellington curator and writer Jill Trevelyan won the non-fiction award for Rita Angus: An Artist's Life. Kate de Goldi's, The 10pm Question, picked-up the Readers Choice.
Ten categories were awarded plus three from NZSA. More
NZ Society of Authors Winners - A story about a high-school sex scandal that jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power, The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton won Best First Book .
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press) won hte Poetry prize and Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand) the Non-fiction. More
Award Tragic's Two Pennyworth
, by Jaimy Gordon
, by Patti Smith
, by Terrance Hayes
, by Kathryn Erskine
