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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
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AFRICA: Of the five short stories on the shortlist for this year's Caine Prize for African Writing are
"How Shall We Kill the Bishop" by Lily Mabura (Kenya), "Muzungu" by Namwali Serpell (Zambia), and "Soulmates"
by Alex Smith (South Africa). The Caine Prize is often referred as the "African Booker" prize, as it is named
in honor of the late chairman of Booker plc, and is one of the continent's leading literary awards. The prize
is awarded annually to the best short story published by an African writer in English; the winner receives
£10,000 and is given the opportunity to spend a month as a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in
Washington, DC. The winner and the entire shortlist can be seen on the prize's website.
The anthology Life in Full: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2010
AUSTRALIA: The shortlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award included The Book of Emmett by Deborah
Foster and Butterfly by Sonia Hartnett. The winner, Peter Temple, was announced in June. Complete information
can be found at the Trust's website. IRELAND. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has, once again, not been awarded to a woman. The last woman to win the highly lucrative prize was British author Nicola Barker in 2000. Herta Müller won in 1998. More information can be found on the award's website
CANADA: Several awards were given out at the Atlantic Book Awards and Festival in Nova Scotia in April.
"Nova Scotia's Shandi Mitchell was arguably the biggest winner of the evening, taking home both the prestigious Margaret and
John Savage First Book Award and the 20th anniversary Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize for her debut novel Under This
Unbroken Sky, a devastating but beautifully evocative story of Ukrainian immigrant farmers on the Canadian
prairies in the 1930s." http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca/. Several others were nominated
for these awards, including fellow Nova Scotian Binnie Brennan for her book, Harbour View.
NEW ZEALAND: On this year's shortlist for the New Zealand Post Books Awards is Alison Wong for her novel, As the Earth Turns Silver and
Fiona Farrell for her novel, Limestone (reviewed in this issue). The New Zealand Post Book Awards celebrate excellence, identifying the very best books written by New Zealanders.
The winner will recieve $10,000. The awards, formerly known under several different names, most recently as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (1996-2009).
UNITED KINGDOM: A. S. Byatt has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Children's Book. Founded in 1919, the awards are the oldest literary awards
in the UK. Two prizes, each of £10,000, are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the best biography
published in the previous year. Also on the shortlist were Anita Brookner's novel Strangers and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/people/tait-black
UNITED KINGDOM: US author Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel The Lacuna.
The winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2010 is Irene Sabatini for her novel, The Boy Next Door. Also on the
new writer shortlist are The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale, and After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld.
UNITED KINGDOM: Helen Oyeyemi is one of three winners of the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. The award, which was established in 1947 by Somerset Maugham, is given
each May by the Society of Authors to those they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the previous year. Oyeyemi won with
her novel White is for Witching.
Intended to be used for foreign travel, the award of £12,000 is shared among the winners. The other winners this year were Ben Wilson and Jacob Polley.
UNITED STATES: Karen Joy Fowler has won the Shirley Jackson Award in the short story category for her story "The Pelican Bar". Ms. Fowler is perhaps best
known for her novels Sarah Canary and The Jane Austen Book Club. The SJA is a juried award given in recognition
of the legacy of Shirley Jackson's writing and awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror,
and the dark fantastic. For more information on the award or author Shirley Jackson, please visit the award's website.
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