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Literary Fiction Awards
The Literary Fiction awards highlighted below will allow you to find and enjoy the best established and up-and-coming authors from around the world.
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction - 2008
"The Road Home" by Rose Tremain won
the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
"Inglorious" by Joanna Kavenna was awarded the Orange Award for New Writers.
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Man Booker Prize - 2008
"The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga won this year's Man Booker Prize. Earlier in the year, and to mark the
Booker's 40th anniversary, Salman
Rushdie won the "Best of the Booker Award" for his novel,
Midnight's Children.
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Pulitzer Prize - 2007
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Two
Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for Poetry - "Time and Materials" by Robert Hass and "Failure" by Philip Schultz.
An exploration by Daniel Walker Howe of the political and social changes undergone by America in the early 1800's won the History Prize.
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2008 Nobel Prize for Literature
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature was won by Frenchman, Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
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Costa Book Awards - 2007
"Day" by A.L. Kennedy was announced as the overall Costa Book of the Year for 2007.
"What Was Lost " by Catherine O'Flynn was given first prize in the First Novel
category.
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British Book Awards - 2008
The British Book of the year was "On Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan, while
Russell Brand won the Biography of the Year with "My Booky Wook" and Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman won
the Non-Fiction Prize for "Long Way Down".
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National Book Awards, 2007
"Tree of Smoke" by Denis Johnson won the National Book Awards, Fiction
Award. The Non-fiction award was given to "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner.
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Society of Authors Awards
"London and the South-East", by David Szalay, won the Betty Trask Prize for
first novels written by young authors. The prestigious Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was won by
Rosemary Hill for "God's Architect - the designer of Big Ben's clock tower.
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Wales Book of the Year - 2008
The Presence by Dannie Abse won the English language prize, while Gareth Miles and W. T. Davies won the Welsh lanuage
category. "Ffydd, Gobaith, Cariad" (Faith, Hope, Love)
by Llwyd Owen was last year's Welsh language winner.
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Guardian First Book Award - 2007
"Children of the Revolution" by Dinaw Mengestu won the Guardian First Book Award, 2007
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