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October Book Award Results
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t October- Shortlists announced: Canada's Writers Trust administers a number of prestigious literary prizes including the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction and Non-fiction Prizes worth CDN $15,000 each to the winner & the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize worth 
$10,000 to the winner. Winners due 17th November.2nd October- Still in Canada. Toronto author Gil Adamson has won the CDN$7,500 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award for her 2007 novel The Outlander. Adamson, 47, received her cheque at a ceremony in Toronto. The Outlander was one of six novels short listed for the prize, which is marking its 31st anniversary this year.6th
October- Just weeks after winning the inaugural Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award. Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers, by Philip Jones has won Australia's 2008 Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award7th Ocober- The Giller Shortlist. Authors Rawi Hage, Marina Endicott, Joeseph Boyden, Anthony De Sa and Mary Swan have all made the cut for the CDN $50,000 sponsored by Scotiabank. Winners November 11th.7th Oct- Tim Winton's, Breath, already a winner of the Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, can now add the inaugural Australia’s independent booksellers 'Indie Award'to it's honour list. The AU $19,000 prize for the Best Australian Book of the past 12 mo
nths has been donated entirely by over 120 independent booksellers across the country9
th Ocober- The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (right), a cosmopolitan and prolific French novelist, children’s author and essayist regarded by many French readers and critics as one of the country’s greatest living writers. The prize is worth 10 Million Swedish Krona ( £817,000)Full background on Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
12th October- Baltimore, USA- Ironically, with the Boucheron 2008, "Charmed to Death Conference happening on her own door-step, local resident Laura Lippman (right )has dominated the Mystery Award season. Her book, What the Dead Know, is this years winner in the Best Novel category of the MaCavity, the Anthony and the Barry! The only award it didn't take-out was in the hard-boiled PI genre award, the Shamus, which was won by Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover. Full results on relevant Book Award links above.Related Blogs: A Torrent of Mystery Award Winners plus
Blog: Defining Literary Crime Genres: Not So Easy To Solve
14th October-London- The White Tiger, a debut novel by Aravind Adiga won the 2008 M
an Booker prize and with it the £50,000 prize. The novel is described as a ‘compelling, angry and darkly humorous’ novel about a man’s journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by one reviewer as an ‘unadorned portrait’ of India seen ‘from the bottom of the heapRelated Blog: Booker Vigilantes? Where's Wally the 'Poncey' Academic Judge?
Related Video Coverage- BookAwardTV Interviews with Man Booker Shortlisted Authors. Under On-Demand Menu Man Booker
15th October- Shortlists. A distinct breath of fresh air with with the selection from this years USA National Book Award Judges as the announcement of the 2008 shortlists for Fiction | Non-fiction | Poetry | Young People's . The winners will be announced at the 59th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 19.15th October- Canada- Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlists All is well in the publishing industry in the Wheat Province judging by the record number of entries for this years award17th October-Shortlists - Quebec Writers Federation. Rawi Hage's Cockroach looks set to dominate the Canadian award season finding it's way onto yet another shortlist, this time in Quebec. His publisher, House of Anansi Press, must be highly chuffed. Hage is up against Andrew Hood, Pardon Our Monsters (Véhicule Press) and Jaspreet Singh, Chef (Véhicule Press), in the fiction category. All in all eighteen writers have been nominated across six categories . Winners 19th November.20th October - The winner of the 2008 Toronto Book Award was a nnounced on 17th October, Congratulations to the winner Glen Downie, for his work of poetry Loyalty Management -21st October - A massive seventy authors, across 14 French and English language categories, have made the cut for the 2008 Canadian Governor-General literary Awards It is without doubt the Queen of all shortlists of all the prizes that we cover on our Literary Award Network.Related Blog. Govenor-General Massive Shortlist
22nd October- You just gotta love em! Australia is blessed with some marvellous Children's Book Awards of which the Koala's (NSW), and the Bilbys (QLDS), are amongst the most popular. The children have spoken and the winners announced.22nd October- Hong Kong, 22 October 2008 – Kavery Nambisan, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Miguel Syjuco, Yu Hua and Alfred A. Yuson are the five authors selected for the shortlist by the judging panel for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, the first regional prize for a work unpublished in English. The winner of the prize will be announced on Thursday 13 November, 2008 at a ceremony in Hong Kong.
30th October -Perth. Michelle de Kretser's widely admired The Lost Dog and the 2007 Booker Shortlisted Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist are amongst the final five for the final five for the inaugural AU$110,000 Australia-Asian literary prize.Related blogs: Speed Reading Judges for $110,00 Australia-Asia Award plus
Australia-Asia Award Longlist Failed Four out of Ten. Dull
Related video Coverage - BookAwardsTV. Shortlisted Author interviews etc. under on Demand menu Australia-Asia
30th October -Perth. In a busy day for the Western Australian Literary fraternity the winners of the 2007 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were also announced Culture and Arts Minister John Day. Mr Day announced the seven category winners at a ceremony at the State Library of Western Australia. The selected titles were chosen from a short list of 28. Each category winner received $7,500. Works were awarded in the following categories: Non-Fiction; Fiction; Children’s Books; Poetry; Scripts; Young Adults; and History. 31st October- London- The Guardian has announced an "ambitious, varied and incredibly individual" shortlist for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award. The shortlist comprises two non-fiction titlesAward tragic Blog - Guardian First Book Award: Comparing Aardvarks with Apples?
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Hi Kevin,
Returning the honor of your visit. From our part of the literary world (in English, outside of America and the Commonwealth), three Filipino authors are shortlisted right now for Man Asia Prize (for the novel): Alfred Yuson, Miguel Syjuco, and Lakambini Sitoy. I am mainly a poet so I don't compete for this prize. Except for Mr. Yuson, the other two I think have blogs or websites which you may look up.
Marne L. Kilates
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