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Literary Awards Literêre Toekennings Amabhaso Woncwadi
2010/2011 Update
Compiled by Sabrina Gosling, Theresa Sass and Andrew Murray-Desmond Tutu Prize for Best Christian or Stanley Jonck Theological Book In Any Official Language of South Africa Book Selectors 2011 Piet Naudé Neither calendar nor clock: he following list of literary awards is intended to supplement the perspectives on the Belhar booklets Literary awards and Award-winning children’s books, Confession as well as the annual updates appearing in the CL. This list is T Andrew Murray Prys vir die Beste Christelike Boek in Afrikaans as complete as we have been able to make it, using available sources such as press reports, reviewing periodicals and the Internet. Please 2011 Dirkie Smit Geloof en openbare lewe note that in some cases it is difficult to determine the precise date of an award. ATKV Woordveertjies If you notice any errors, or can add to the information, please contact Prosaprys Sabrina Gosling, Western Cape Provincial Library Service, PO Box 2108, Cape Town 8000, tel. (021) 483-2225,or e-mail
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Ds Pieter van Drimmelen Medalje Louis Hiemstra Prys vir Nie-Fiksie (driejaarliks toegeken) 2010 JL Helberg 2011 Elsa Joubert Reisiger
Eugène Marais Prys M-Net Literary Awards 2011 Nicole Jaekel Maal English Strauss 2010 Sally-Ann Murray Small moving parts European Union Literary Award for Best First Novel Afrikaans 2009-2010 James Clelland Deeper than colour 2010 Eben Venter Santa Gamka Fiësta-Toekenning vir Lewenslange Bydrae tot die Afrikaanse Nguni Woordkuns 2010 Peter Mtuze Iingada zibuyile endle (Wild 2011 Verna Vels cats have come home) Sepedi/Sesotho Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2010 Mokhale Machitela Ga di mphelele! (Let them live Best cookbook South Africa for me!) 2010 Renata Coetzee Koekemakranka: Khoi-Khoin- Film category kultuurgoed en kom-kuier-kos 2010 Karin Brynard Plaasmoord Easy recipes South Africa NB-Uitgewers Groot Romankompetisie 2010 Evita Bezuidenhout Evita’s kossie sikelela History South Africa (voorheen bekend as Sanlam se Groot Romanwedstryd, of Sanlam- Tafelberg Groot Romankompetisie – hierdie kompetisie, wat sedert 2010 Renata Coetzee Koekemakranka: Khoi-Khoin- 1990 gehou word, is in die verlede twee- en driejaarliks gehou. Dit kultuurgoed en kom-kuier-kos sal voortaan tweejaarliks aangebied word. ’n Debuutprys word ook Helgaard Steyn Prys vanaf 2012 ingestel) Hierdie prys word jaarliks om die beurt aan ’n komponis, skilder, 2009 Dan Sleigh Wals met Matilda skrywer of beeldhouer toegeken. Nedbank Akademie Prys vir Vertaalde Werk 2010 Hans Huyssen (komponis en tjellis). Toegeken vir sy komposi- sie Proteus-variasies (2006) (driejaarliks toegeken, om die beurt vir poësie, drama en verhalende prosa in dié volgorde) Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Literature 2011 Lina Spies Die Agterhuis / Anne Frank 2010 Sally-Ann Murray Small moving parts Nielson BookData / SAPnet Booksellers’ Choice Award 2011 Sifiso Mzobe Young blood 2010 John van de Ruit Spud – learning to fly Hertzog Prys vir Poësie Olive Schreiner Prize (Poetry) (English Academy of Southern Africa) 2011 Johann de Lange Die algebra van nood 2010 Finuala Dowling Notes from the dementia Ingrid Jonker Debut Prize for Poetry (English) ward
2010 Tania van Schalkwyk Hyphen PanSALB Award (The Pan South African Language Board) Jan Rabie / Rapport Prys vir ’n Debuutwerk 2011 Marlene van 2011 Deborah Steinmair Marike se laaste dans Niekerk
Jan Rabie / Rapport Prys vir Innoverende Afrikaanse Letterkunde Protea Prys vir Poësie (’n Via Afrika Prys) 2010 Breyten Breyten- Oorblyfsel / Voice over 2010 Bettina Wyngaard Troos vir die gebrokenes bach
Lapa Romankompetisie Recht Malan Prys (Engelse of Afrikaanse nie-fiksie of nie-literêre werke, ’n Via Afrika Prys) 2010 Fransi Phillips Net ’n lewe 2010 Elsa Joubert Reisiger 2011 Bill Nasson War for South Africa
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Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation (English Academy of Literary translator’s award Southern Africa) 2009 Ingrid and Dirk Die boek van toeval en Winterbach (Eng- toeverlaat 2009 Jeff Opland lish to Afrikaans) For his oeuvre as translator and specifically for three books 2010 Not awarded. The nation’s bounty: the Literary lifetime achievement awards Xhosa poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho 2009 Abraham de Vries (Afrikaans) Abantu besizwe: historical and 2010 Hennie Aucamp (Afrikaans) biographical writings, 1902- Mandla Langa (English) 1944; (by SEK Mqhayi) and Zakes Mda (English) Isaac Williams Wauchope: Peter Horn (English) selected writings 1874-1916 Marguerite Poland (English) South African Literary Awards (SALAS) MM Mabuza (Xitsonga) South African literary posthumous awards Nadine Gordimer short story award for writing in indigenous languages 2009 Etienne Leroux in South Africa Sol Plaatje 2009 JJ Ngcongwane Tikhatsi letimatima WK Thamsanqa (SiSwati) 2010 Elisabeth Eybers 2010 MM Mabuza Khuluka na Rtavi (Afrikaans) Bishop MT Makobe Nkhune se, Mphe se! Stephen Bantu Biko I write what I like Poetry award (English) 2009 Loftus Marais Staan in die algemeen nader K Sello Duiker memorial literary award (Afrikaans) aan vensters 2009 Chris Marnewick Shepherds and butchers Mxolisi Nyezwe New country (English) (English) HR Tshianane Vhuanzwo 2010 Danie Marais Al is die maan ’n misverstand (Tshivenda) (Afrikaans) Kabelo D Kgatea Monwana was bosupa Kobus Moolman Separating the seas (Setswana) (English) Siphatheleni Kula Inkawu idliw’ilila Bishop MT Makobe Kekeretsane tsa bokgwalwe / (IsiXhosa) (Sepedi) Hlaa tsa tokologo 2010 MV Molele (Sepedi) Mmaphefo le Maphefo South African literary awards debut prize Kgebetli Moele The book of the dead 2009 Diale Tlholwe Ancient rites (English) 2010 Alistair Morgan Sleeper’s wake (In die Afrikaanse kategorie het Annelie Botes die toekenning ontvang vir Thula-thula, maar die toekenning is daarna teruggetrek Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie Prys vir Vertaalde Werk as gevolg van Botes se omstrede uitlatings in ’n onderhoud in 2011 Lina Spies Die agterhuis / Anne Frank Rapport.) Sunday Times Fiction Award Chairperson’s award 2010 SEK Mqhayi 2010 Imraan Coovadia High low in-between (IsiXhosa) Thomas Pringle Awards (English Academy of Southern Africa) Literary journalism Literary article 2009 Karabo Kgoleng 2010 Leon de Kock Cracking the code: translation (Electronic media) as transgression in Triomf in Maureen Isaacson Journal of Literary Studies, 25(3) (Print media) 2009 2010 Kevin Bloom Ways of staying Short story 2010 Stephen Watson Buiten Street in New Contrast, 36(4) 2008
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UJ (University of Johannesburg) Prize for Creative Writing in Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature English 2010 Ron Fawcett with Ron Fawcett, rock athlete 2010 Imraan Coovadia High low in-between Ed Douglas
UJ Prize for Debut Writing in English Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for a Comic Novel 2010 Jacob Dlamini Native nostalgia 2010 Ian McEwan Solar
UJ Prys vir die Beste Skeppende Skryfwerk in Afrikaans Brit Writers’ Awards Unpublished (inaugural) 2010 Elsa Joubert Reisiger Unpublished writer of the year
UJ Prys vir Debuutwerk in Afrikaans 2010 Catherine Cooper The golden acorn: the adven- tures of Jack Brenin 2010 Karin Brynard Plaasmoord British Book Awards (Nibbies) (see Galaxy National Book Awards) WA Hofmeyr Prys (Afrikaanse letterkunde oor alle genres heen; ’n Via Afrika Prys) British Fantasy Award 2010 Eben Venter Santa Gamka Best novel 2011 Alexander Strachan Dwaalpoort 2010 Conrad Williams One
Woordtrofee Pryse Best collection 2010 Robert Shearman Love songs for the shy and Woordtrofee-medaljes cynical 2010 TT Cloete Best anthology Margaret Bakkes 2010 Stephen Jones The mammoth book of best Pieter W Grobbelaar (editor) new horror 20 Woordkunstenaar van die jaar Best comic / graphic novel 2010 Elsa Joubert Reisiger 2010 Neil Gaiman and Whatever happened to the Woordfees debuutteks prys Andy Kubert caped crusader? 2010 Deborah Steinmar Marike se laaste dans British SF Association Awards Best novel GREAT BRITAIN GROOT-BRITTANJE 2010 Ian McDonald The dervish house Artwork Amazon Rising Star of the Year 2010 Joey Hi-Fi Cover of Zoo City 2010 Belinda Bauer British Sports Book Awards Arthur C Clarke Award Best new writer prize 2010 China Miéville The city & the city 2011 Matthew Syed Bounce 2011 Lauren Beukes Zoo City Best biography Aventis Prize for Science Books see Royal Society Prize 2011 Catrine Clay Trautmann’s journey
Betty Trask Awards (Society of Authors) Best autobiography 2011 Brian Moore Beware of the dog Betty Trask prize 2010 Nadifa Mohamed Black mamba boy Christian Book Awards Betty Trask awards 2010 Gram Seed One step beyond 2010 Evie Wyld After the fire, a still small 2011 Brad Lincoln One dad voice
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Costa Awards (formerly Whitbread Awards) Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year Book of the year 2010 Michael R Young Managing a dental practice the 2010 Jo Shapcott Of mutability Genghis Khan way Poetry Dylan Thomas Prize (University of Wales) 2010 Jo Shapcott Of mutability 2010 Elyse Fenton Clamor First novel Dylan Thomas Sony Reader Award for Unpublished Writers 2010 Kishwar Desai Witness the night (inaugural) Biography 2010 Stefan Mohamed Bitter sixteen 2010 Edmund de Waal The hare with amber eyes Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (Society of Novel Authors) 2010 Maggie O’Farrell The hand that first held mine 2010 Tristram Hunt The frock-coated commu- Children’s book award nist: the revolutionary life of 2010 Jason Wallace Out of shadows Friedrich Engels
Crime Writers’ Association Awards Encore Award for Best Second Novel (Society of Authors) (biennial) CWA Gold Dagger 2011 Adam Foulds The quickening maze 2010 Belinda Bauer Blacklands Financial Times / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year CWA International Dagger 2010 Raghuram G Rajan Fault lines: how hidden frac- 2010 Johan Theorin The darkest room tures still threaten the world economy CWA John Creasey Dagger (new blood) for best first crime novel 2010 Ryan David Jahn Acts of violence Forward Poetry Prizes Debut Dagger for an unpublished author Best collection 2010 Patrick Eden A place of dying 2010 Seamus Heaney Human chain Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller/adventure novel Best first collection 2010 Simon Conway A loyal spy 2010 Hilary Menos Berg
Dagger in the library Galaxy National Book Awards 2010 Ariana Franklin 2010 Ellis Peters historical Dagger Galaxy book of the year (overall winner) 2010 Rory Clements Revenger David Nicholls One day Non-fiction Dagger Outstanding achievement award 2010 Ruth Dudley Aftermath: the Omagh bomb- Martin Amis Edwards ing and the families’ pursuit of justice Terry Pratchett Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement Sainsbury’s popular fiction book of the year 2009 Andrew Taylor David Nicholls One day 2010 Val McDermid Galaxy international author of the year 2011 Lindsey Davis Jonathan Franzen Freedom Waterstone’s UK author of the year David Cohen Prize for Literature (biennial) Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall 2011 Julian Barnes (for lifetime’s excellence More4 non-fiction book of the year in literature) Andrew Marr The making of modern Britain
Desmond Elliott Prize for a First Novel National Book Tokens new writer of the year Edmund de Waal The hare with amber eyes 2010 Ali Shaw The girl with the glass feet
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WH Smith children’s book of the year Orwell Prize Julia Donaldson Zog 2010 Andrea Gillies Keeper: living with Nancy – a and Axel Scheffler journey into Alzheimer’s Tesco biography of the year 2011 Tom Bingham The rule of law Stephen Fry The Fry chronicles PEN / Ackerley Prize for Autobiography Tesco food & drink book of the year 2010 Gabriel Weston Direct red: a surgeon’s view of Yotam Orrolenghi Plenty her life-or-death profession Guardian First Book Award Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards 2010 Alexandra Harris Romantic moderns: English Romantic novel of the year writers, artists and the imagi- nation from Virginia Woolf to 2011 Jojo Moyes The last letter from your John Piper lover
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes Historical novel prize 2011 Elizabeth Chadwick To defy a king Biography Romantic comedy prize 2010 John Carey William Golding: the man who wrote Lord of the flies 2011 Jill Mansell Take a chance on me Fiction Lifetime achievement award 2010 AS Byatt The children’s book 2011 Josephine Cox and Penny Jordan John Llewellyn Rhys / Mail on Sunday Prize Royal Society Prize for Science Books (formerly Aventis Prize) 2010 Amy Sackville The still point 2010 Nick Lane Life ascending: the ten inven- Literary Review’s Bad Sex Awards tions of evolution
2010 Rowan Somerville The shape of her Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year McKitterick Prize (Society of Authors) 2010 James Robertson And the land lay still
2010 Raphael Selbourne Beauty Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Man Booker Prizes (for writers from the Commonwealth and 2010 Sue Peebles The death of Lomond Friel Ireland) (shared) Simon Hall The history of Orkney Man Booker prize literature 2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler question Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Man Booker best of Beryl prize (a special award created posthu- 2010 Barbara Demick Nothing to envy: real lives in mously to recognise Dame Beryl’s status as the most shortlisted North Korea author never to win the prize) 2010 Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie Scottish Arts Council Book Awards The lost Booker prize Scottish book of the year (Overall winner) JG Farrell Troubles 2010 Donald Worster A passion for nature: the life of John Muir Ondaatje Prize (Royal Society of Literature) Non-fiction 2010 Ian Thomson The Dead Yard: tales of 2010 Donald Worster A passion for nature: the life modern Jamaica of John Muir Orange Prize for Fiction Fiction 2010 Barbara Kingsolver The lacuna 2010 John Aberdein Strip the willow
Orange Prize for a New Writer Poetry 2010 Tom Leonard Outside the narrative 2010 Irene Sabatini The boy next door
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First book American Book Awards (Before Columbus Foundation) 2010 Sarah Gabriel Eating pomegranates: a mem- 2010 Dave Eggers Zeitoun oir of mothers, daughters and genes 2010 Amiri Baraka Digging: the Afro-American soul of American classical Somerset Maugham Awards (Society of Authors) music 2010 Jacob Polley Talk of the town 2010 Poems for the millennium, main award volume 3 / edited by Jerome 2010 Helen Oyeyemi White is for witching Rothenberg and Jeffrey C other awards Robinson Ben Wilson What price liberty? Bram Stoker Awards for Horror
Theakston’e Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award Novel (by public vote) 2009 Sarah Langan Aubrey’s door 2008 Stef Penney The tenderness of wolves First novel 2009 Mark Billingham Death message 2009 Hank Schwaeble Damnable 2010 RJ Ellory A simple act of violence Fiction collection 2009 Gene O’Neill A taste of tenderloin TS Eliot Prize for Poetry (The Poetry Book Society) Edgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America) 2010 Derek Walcott White egrets Best novel UK Medical Journalists’ Association Awards 2010 John Hart The last child General readership, self-help award 2011 Steve Hamilton The lock artist 2011 Lionel H Opie Living longer, living better: Best first novel exploring the heart-mind connection 2010 Stefanie Pintoff In the shadow of Gotham 2011 Bruce DeSilva Rogue Island Wales Book of the Year (English-language) Best original paperback 2010 Philip Gross I spy pinhole eye 2010 Marc Strange Body blows Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2011 Robert Goddard Long time coming (awarded to outstanding works of fiction or non-fiction on the Grand master award themes of health, illness or medicine) 2010 Dorothy Gilman 2009 Andrea Gillies Keeper: living with Nancy – a journey into Alzheimer’s 2011 Sara Paretsky (inaugural) Hugo Award for Best SF Novel 2010 Rebecca Skloot The immortal life of Henrietta 2010 China Miéville The city & the city Lacks (shared) Paolo Bacigalupi The windup girl William Hill Sports Book of the Year John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer 2010 Brian Moore Beware of the dog 2010 Seanan McGuire
Locus Awards UNITED STATES VERENIGDE STATE Best science fiction novel Agatha Awards 2010 Cherie Priest Boneshaker Best novel Best fantasy novel 2010 Louise Penny The brutal telling 2010 China Miéville The city & the city Best first novel Best first novel 2010 Alan Bradley The sweetness at the bottom 2010 Paolo Bacigalupi The windup girl of the pie
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Mary Higgins Clark Award (Mystery Writers of America) Damon Knight Grand Master 2009 Joe Haldeman 2011 Elly Griffiths The crossing places PEN/Faulkner Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature 2011 Deborah Eisenberg The collected stories of 2010 Jo Walton Lifelode Deborah Eisenberg National Book Awards Philip K Dick Award for Best Original Science Fiction Paperback Fiction Novel 2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of misrule 2010 Mark Hodder The strange affair of spring- Non-fiction heeled Jack 2010 Patti Smith Just kids Pulitzer Prizes Poetry Fiction 2010 Terrance Hayes Lighthead 2011 Jennifer Egan A visit from the Goon Squad Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters General non-fiction 2010 Tom Wolfe 2011 Siddartha Mukher- The emperor of all maladies: a jee biography of cancer Young peoples’ literature Poetry 2010 Kathryn Erskine Mockingbird 2011 Kay Ryan The best of it: new and Literarian award selected poems 2010 Joan Ganz Cooney Biography / Autobiography National Book Critics Circle Awards 2011 Ron Chernow Washington: a life Fiction Drama 2010 Jennifer Egan A visit from the Goon Squad 2011 Bruce Norris Clybourne Park General non-fiction History 2010 Isabel Wilkerson The warmth of other suns: 2011 Eric Foner The fiery trail: Abraham the epic story of America’s Lincoln and American slavery great migration RITA Awards (Romance Writers of America) Biography Best contemporary romance 2010 Sarah Bakewell How to live, or, A life of 2010 Kristan Higgins Too good to be true Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer Best paranormal romance Autobiography 2010 Cresley Cole Kiss of a demon king 2010 Darin Strauss Half a life Best inspirational romance Criticism 2010 Tamera Alexander The inheritance 2010 Clare Cavanagh Lyric poetry and modern Best romantic suspense politics: Russia, Poland and the 2010 Laura Griffin Whisper of warning West Best historical romance Poetry 2010 Sherry Thomas Not quite a husband 2010 CD Wright One with others: a little book Best Regency historical romance of her days 2010 Julia Quinn What happens in London Nebula Awards Best first book Novel 2010 Kate Brady One scream away 2009 Paolo Bacigalupi The windup girl Best young adult romance Novella 2010 Simone Elkeles Perfect chemistry 2009 Kage Baker The women of Nell Gwynne’s Best novel with strong romantic elements 2010 Barbara O’Neal The lost recipe of happiness 2020 Cape Librarian, May/June 2011 ook world B Boekwêreld • Ilizwe Leencwadi
Africa: best first book AWARDS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES Cynthia Jele Happiness is a four-letter word AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Southeast Asia & South Pacific: best book TOEKENNINGS VAN ANDER LANDE EN Kim Scott That deadman dance INTERNASIONALE TOEKENNINGS Southeast Asia & South Pacific: best first book Aurealis Awards (Australia) Craig Cliff A man melting Caribbean & Canada: best book Science fiction novel Emma Donoghue Room 2010 Marianne de Pierres Transformation space Caribbean & Canada: best first book Fantasy novel Katrina Best Bird eat bird 2010 Tansy Rayner Power and magic Roberts South Asia & Europe: best book Horror novel David Mitchell The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet 2010 Kirstyn McDermott Madigan mine South Asia & Europe: best first book Illustrated book / graphic novel Mischa Hiller Sabra zoo 2010 Justin Randall Changing ways, bk. 1 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (Australia) Australia-Asia Literary Award 2010 JM Coetzee Summertime Discontinued CWA International Dagger The Australian / Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manu- script by an author under the age of 35) 2010 Johan Theorin The darkest room
2011 Rohan Wilson The roving party Finlandia Prize (Finland) Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010 Mikko Rimminen Nenäpäivä (Red Nose Day)
Fiction Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction (Canada) 2010 Eva Hornung Dog boy English language Non-fiction 2010 Dianne Warren Cool water 2010 Grace Karsten The colony: a history of early Sydney Giller Prize (Canada) 2010 Johanna Skibsrud The sentimentalists Caine Prize for African Writing (short story) 2010 Olufemi Terry Stickfighting days Henriëtte Roland Holst-prijs (Belgium) 2010 Tom Lanoye Sprakeloos Cervantes Prize (Spain) 2010 Ana Maria Matute Independent Foreign Fiction Award 2010 Phillippe Claudel Brodeck’s report (translated Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes by John Cullen) 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Best book Aminatta Forna The memory of love 2010 Gerbrand Bakker The twin Best first book Craig Cliff A man melting Regional winners International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Abu Dhabi) Africa: best book Aminatta Forna The memory of love 2010 Abdo Khal Spewing sparks as big as castles 2011 (shared) Mohammed The arch and the butterfly Achaari Raja Alem The dove’s necklace
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Irish Book Awards (Ireland) Fiction award 2010 Alison Wong As the earth turns silver Bob Hughes lifetime achievement award General non-fiction award 2010 Maeve Binchy 2010 Judith Binney Encircled lands: Te Urewera, Hughes & Hughes Irish novel of the year 1820-1921 2010 Emma Donoghue Room Illustrated non-fiction award Eason Irish popular fiction book of the year 2010 Al Brown Go fish: recipes and stories 2010 Ross O’Carroll-Kelly The Oh My God delusion from the New Zealand coast Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society People’s choice award (Israel) 2010 Al Brown Go fish: recipes and stories 2011 Ian McEwan from the New Zealand coast Poetry award John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2010 Brian Turner Just this 2010 Paolo Bacigalupi The windup girl New Zealand Society of Authors and Writers Association best first book Man Asian Literary Prize of fiction 2010 Bi Feiyu Three sisters 2010 Anna Taylor Relief New Zealand Society of Authors and Writers Association best first book Man Booker International Prize for Fiction (biennial) of non-fiction 2011 Philip Roth 2010 Pip Desmond Trust: a true story of women Martinus Nijhoff Prys vir Vertaling & gangs 2010 Riet de Jong-Goossens Penguin Prize for African Writing (inaugural) (vir haar literêre vertalings uit Afrikaans in Neder- Fiction lands) 2010 Ellen Banda-Aaku Patchwork Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australia) Non-fiction 2010 Peter Temple Truth 2010 Pius Adesanmi You’re not a country, Africa!
Montana New Zealand Book Awards see NZ Post Book Awards Prix Aurora Award for Best Science Fiction / Fantasy Novel in English (Canada) Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature (Egypt) 2010 Robert J Sawyer Wake 2010 Miral El-Tahawy Brooklyn Heights Prix Femina (France) Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writers Association of Australia) 2010 Patrick Lapeyre La vie est brève et le désir Best fiction sans fin 2010 Garry Disher Wyatt Prix Goncourt (France) Best first fiction 2010 Michel Houellebecq La carte et le territoire (The 2010 Mark Dapin King of the Cross map and the territory) Noma Award for Publishing in Africa Prix Goncourt for a First Novel (France) Discontinued 2010 Laurent Binet HHhH Nobel Prize for Literature Prix Renaudot (France) 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa 2010 Virginie Despente Apocalypse bebe NZ Post Book Awards (New Zealand) Trillium Book Award (Canada) NZ Post book of the year (overall winner) 2010 Ian Brown The boy in the moon 2010 Judith Binney Encircled lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921
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TS Eliot Prize for Poetry (Truman State University, USA) Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards 2010 (Children’s Stories) Annual prize for an unpublished book-length collection Afrikaans Jelleke Wierenga Kat in die pan vir die Frans- 2010 Dean Rader Works & days man 2011 BK Fischer Mutiny gallery English Gail Smith Bongani’s secret William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year (Ireland) 2010 Christy O’Connor The club IsiXhosa Sivuyile Mazantsi Unyanelizwe Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (biennial) 2010 Kopano Matlwa Coconut Sepedi Norman Mahlaya Kgethang Nna (shared) Wale Okediran Tenants of the house
World Fantasy Awards Xitsonga Conny Lubisi Lembe Lerintshwa Best novel 2010 China Miéville The city & the city MER Prys vir Jeuglektuur Best artist 2010 Peter Dunseith The bird of heaven: the story 2010 Charles Vess of a Swazi sangoma 2011 Derrick van der Willem Poprok Children’s Book Awards Walt Bekroonde Kinderboeke MER Prys vir Kinderlektuur SOUTH AFRICA / SUID-AFRIKA 2010 Linda Rode en In die nimmer-immer-bos / In Fiona Moodie the never-ever-wood ABSA Early Childhood Development (ECD) National Award 2011 Wendy Hartmann Net Sisi/Just Sisi 2010 Desmond Tutu God’s plan en illustreerder Joan Rankin
LAPA Jeugromankompetisie Alba Bouwer Prys vir Kinderliteratuur (driejaarliks) 2010 Nanette van Ek was hier 2010 Linda Rode In die nimmer-immer-bos; Rooyen (illustrasies deur Fiona Moodie) Percy Fitzpatrick Award for Youth Literature (English Academy of ATKV Kinderboek Toekennings South Africa) Voorleeskategorie, 3-6 2010 Andy Petersen Daniel Fox and the jester’s 2010 Theresa van Baalen Aspriskrokkedis legacy 2010 Johan Strauss Reënboogfeetjie se spesiale (illustreerder) dag Great Britain / Groot-Brittanje Selfleeskategorie, Graad 1-3 Blue Peter Awards 2010 Fanie Viljoen Slym en die beker van geluk Favourite story 2010 Fanie Viljoen Slym en die beker van geluk 2011 Lauren St John Dead Man’s Cove (illustreerder) The most fun story with pictures Selfleeskategorie, Graad 4-5 2011 Marcus Sedgwick Lunatics and luck (The Raven 2010 Jaco Jacobs Middernagfees mysteries); illustrated by Pete Selfleeskategorie, Graad 6-7 Williamson 2010 Jaco Jacobs Perfek The best book with facts in it Selfleeskategorie, Graad 8-10 2011 Mitchell Symons Do igloos have loos? 2010 Nelia Engelbrecht Pandora se boks Booktrust Early Years Baby book award 2010 Giles Andreae I love my mummy; illustrations by Emma Dodd
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Pre-school award National Book Award for Young People’s Literature 2010 Christopher One smart fish 2010 Kathryn Erskine Mockingbird Wormell Best emerging illustrator Randolph Caldecott Medal 2010 Levi Pinfold The django (writer/illustrator) 2010 Jerry Pinkney The lion and the mouse
Booktrust Teenage Prize 2011 Erin E Stead A sick day for Amos McGee (written by Philip C Stead) 2010 Gregory Hughes Unhooking the moon Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award Branford Boase Award Young adult literature award 2010 Lucy Christopher Stolen 2011 Brian Katcher Almost perfect Costa Children’s Book of the Year Young readers 2010 Jason Wallace Out of shadows 2011 Sita Brahmachari Artichoke
Guardian Children’s Fiction Award International / Internasionaal
2010 Michelle Paver Ghost hunter (the final book Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in the Chronicles of ancient darkness series) 2011 Shaun Tan (Australian illustrator and author) Red House Children’s Book Award IBBY–Asahi Reading Promotion Awards For younger children 2010 The Osu Children’s 2010 Jeanne Willis Bottoms up!; illustrations by Library Fund, Adam Stower Ghana For younger readers 2010 Tanya Landman Mondays are murder For older readers 2010 Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (overall winner)
Roald Dahl Funny Prize Six years and under 2010 Louise Yates Dog loves books 7-14 years 2010 Louise Rennison Withering tights
W H Smith’s Children’s Book of the Year 2010 Julia Donaldson Zog and Axel Scheffler
Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize (Author of the year) 2010 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
United States / Verenigde State
John Newbery Medal 2011 Clare Vanderpool Moon over manifest
Michael L Printz Award 2011 Paolo Bacigalupi Ship breaker
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