UK - Orange 2011 Shortlist

The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. Winner June 8th (Links to Amazon UK).

Emma Donoghue (Irish) - Room; Picador; 7th Novel
Aminatta Forna (British/Sierra Leonean) - The Memory of Love; Bloomsbury; 2nd Novel
Emma Henderson (British) - Grace Williams Says it Loud; Sceptre; 1st Novel
Nicole Krauss (American) - Great House; Viking; 3rd Novel
Téa Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger’s Wife; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st Novel
Kathleen Winter (Canadian) - Annabel; Jonathan Cape; 1st Novel more

New Zealand Post Book Awards

(links to Fishpond NZ) 2010 Book of the Year Winner: Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 by Judith Binney, Bridget Williams Books

NZ Post Book Awards judge, Paul Diamond, described the winning work as one that will profoundly change our understanding of the nation's shared history. The book also won the General Non-Fiction category.

Other winners: Fiction Award As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong; Poetry Just This by Brian Turner; Illustrated Non-Fiction winner was Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast by Al Brown. Go Fish also won the People's Choice Award. More New Zealand Awards

Sir Julius Vogel Award

Fan voted awards for various endeavours in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields by New Zealanders.

Best Novel: Beyond The Wall Of Time, Russell Kirkpatrick: Best YA Novel: Brainjack, Brian Falkner:; Best Collected Work: Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, Mark Pirie and Tim Jones - Full lists

UK - Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Congratulations to Sam Lloyd and Philip Ardagh have won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize . Lloyd's Mr Pusskins Best in Show won the prize for children aged six and under,while Ardagh's Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky was named the best funny book for children aged seven to 14.

uk - 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

NZ Librarians Make Their Choice - LIANZA Winners

Canada - JOHANNA SKIBSRUD WINS THE 2010 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

Johanna Skibsrudhas been named the 2010 winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists, published by Gaspereau Press. Looks pretty delighted to us! The other finalists were:

• David Bergen for his novel THE MATTER WITH MORRIS, Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
• Alexander MacLeod for his short story collection LIGHT LIFTING, Biblioasis
• Sarah Selecky for her short story collection THIS CAKE IS FOR THE PARTY, Thomas Allen Publishers
• Kathleen Winter for her novel ANNABEL, House of Anansi Press › See all 2010 Giller Prize finalists

Book Awards of the World

This site is undergoing a reconstruction at present so we will not be updating results for a few months. In the meantime please check all links to official award sites for current information . Apologies for any inconvenience in the meantime. Kev Parker - Site Publisher 24th May, 2011

Welcome to Literary Awards Australia. Global gateway to 250+ Australian, American, British, Canadian, New Zealand and Irish literary award winners. Shortlists. Results from the world's leading literary awards. Author biographies.

2011 TASMANIAN BOOK AWARD WINNERS

The Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre - $25 000 Wanting by Richard Flanagan (Random House, 2008) - The Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer - $5 000 What Now, Tilda B? by Katherine Lomer (University of Queensland Press, 2010). The University of Tasmania Prize for the best book by a Tasmanian publisher - $5 000 Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight (Pardalote Press, 2008). More

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2011 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTS - The 2011 NSW Premier's shortlisted writers were selected from more than 570 nominations across 10 categories. Prizes of up to $315,000 will be presented at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards dinner on 16 May, the first celebratory event of the 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival (16-22 May). More The NSW People Choice Award is open to all residents of Australia chosen from the Christina Stead short list . Voting is via the website www.pla.nsw.gov.au (voting closes at midnight on 8 May).

Michael Cathcart has won the Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2009 (awarde in 2010)in front of a strong shortlist. Cathcart won for his book The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent (Text). Cathcart was presented with the $10,000 award and the H.T. Priestley Medal. Full lists

$20,000 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature "The Nib" - Former NSW Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Leader of the House turned author, Andrew Tink, has won the 2010 award for his meticulous researched biography, William Charles Wentworth . More

2010 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners. Each of the winners receives $100,000 - Fiction Eva Hornung for her novel Dog Boy; Non-fiction is Grace Karskens'The Colony: A History of Early Sydney .

This year the Prime Minister's Literary Awards included two new categories; Young adult fiction won byBill Condon's Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex Godand the Children's fiction winner Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood Past Winners of PM's Literary Awards and full shortlists

USA - Winners & Finalists & 2010 National Book Critics Circle Book Award

America's leading Children's Book Award Winners. The Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal.

2010 USA National Book Award Winners

There were 1,115 total submissions this year for arguably America's leading book award, the National, The winners are:

Fiction: Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon
Nonfiction: Just Kids, by Patti Smith
Poetry: Lighthead, by Terrance Hayes
Young people’s literature: Mockingbird, by Kathryn Erskine
Lifetime achievement award: Tom Wolfe - full lists |›See more past and present National Book Award winners and nominees

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