Category: Awards

>R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah, last night won the Library of Virginia Award in poetry for his book Outlaw Style: Poems. Congratulations, Rod! Check…

>The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards were announced yesterday. The winners will be named in November. I haven’t read any of these…

>It was announced today that Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The White Tiger.

>The New York Times reports that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Crezio has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. I’m not surprised that I’ve never…

>First, don’t expect this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to be an American. It’s been widely reported that the top member…

>The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize is something of a surprize because Salman Rushdie is NOT on it. The finalists: Aravind Adiga…

>I don’t know anything about this other than what the Micro Award Website says: it’s a contest for the best short-short (under 1,000 words)…

>The long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize has been announced. I’d guess that the Rusdie and the O’Neill would have to be…

>It’s no real surprise to me that Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was named Best of the Booker. That’s who I voted for.

>I had never heard of the William Saroyan Prize until I learned that my friend Pamela Erens was a finalist for this year’s award…