BOOKWORLD CONTENTS / INHOUD Litereª re toekennings - 'nbywerking / Literary Awards - an update An update on literaryawards by BookSelec- tors Sabrina Gosling,Johanna de Beerand ª Ethney Waters 14 Literere Toekennings Dalene Matthee die skrywer Bekendes bring hulde aan ontslape skrywer, Dalene Matthee - saamgestel deur Grize¨ ll 'n bywerking Azar-Luxton 19 Pieternella van die Kaap 'nDiepte-bespreking van Dalene Matthee EEEEE se roman deur Kathy Samuels 21 Historical fiction - The Ancient World A delightful discussion on historical fiction, the ancient world by Erich Buchhaus 23 Literary Awards Selected booklist - Historical fiction - the Ancient World An accompanying booklist on the same an update topic, also by Erich Buchhaus 25
Bessie Head Award Compiled by SABRINA GOSLING, JOHANNA DE BEER and 20 03 Nokuthula Mazibuko ChaosBoeke Prize ETHNEY WATERS 2004 Khaled Hosseini The kite runner Book Selectors Mark Haddon The curious incident of the dog in (shared) the night-time he followinglistof literary awardsisintended to supplement Eugene Marais Prys vir Poesie the booklets Literaryawards and Award-winningchildren's « 2004 Ilse van Staden Watervlerk T books, as well as the annual updates appearing in the CL.This list is as complete as we have been able to make it, using available Helgaard Steyn Prys vir Letterkunde sources such as press reports, reviewing periodicals and the Internet. 2004 Dan Sleigh Eilande Please note thatin some casesitis difficultto determine the precise date Herman Charles Bosman Prize of an award. 2004 Rayda Jacobs Confessions of a gambler If you notice any errors, or can add to the information, please contact Hertzog Prys vir Prosa Sabrina Gosling,Western Cape Provincial Library Service, PO Box 2108, 2004 Ingrid Winterbach Niggie CapeTown 8000, telephone (021) 483-2225, e-mail Ingrid Jonker Prys
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Stals Prys vir Geskiedwetenskappe Crime Writers'Association Awards 2004 Herman Giliomee Die Afrikaners Macallan Gold Dagger Award for fiction SundayTimes Prize for Fiction 2004 Sara Paretsky Blacklist 2004 Rayda Jacobs Confessions of a gambler Macallan Silver Dagger Award for fiction 2004 John Harvey Flesh and blood Totius Prys virTeologie en die studie van die grondtale van die Bybel Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement 2004 ProfJH vanWyk 2004 Lionel Davidson WA Hofmeyr Prys EllisPetersHistoricalDagger 2004 EbenVenter Begeerte 2004 Barbara Cleverly The damascened blade John Creasey Memorial Dagger for best first crime novel 2004 Mark Mills Amagansett GREAT BRITAIN /GROOT-BRITTANJE Debut Dagger Award 2004 Ellen Grubb The doll makers Arthur C Clarke Award Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller,adventure or spy novel 2004 Neal Stephenson Quicksilver 2004 Jeffery Deaver Garden of beasts Daggerin the library Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2004 Alexander McCall Smith General category Gold Dagger for non-fiction 2004 Bill Bryson Ashorthistoryofnearly 2004 John Dickie Cosa Nostra everything SarahWise (shared) The Italian boy BettyTrask Awards (Society of Authors) Mystery & Thriller People's Choice (new) BettyTrask Prize 2004 Reginald Hill Good morning, midnight 2004 Louise Dean Becoming strangers David Cohen Prize for Literature (biennial) Other BettyTrask Awards 2004 2005 Michael Holroyd Hannah MacDonald The sun road Anthony Cartwright The afterglow Encore Award (Society of Authors) Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi The last song of dusk 2004 Michelle de Kretser The Hamilton case BoardmanTasker Award Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2002 Robert Roper Fatal mountaineer 2004 Glyn Maxwell The nerve 2003 Simon Mawer The fall George Orwell Prize BritishBookAwards(Nibbies) 2004 Robert Cooper The breaking of nations Author ofthe year Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards 2004 Alexander McCall Smith Bestfoodbook Book ofthe year 2004 Nigel Slater Toast: the story of a boy's hunger 2004 LynneTruss Eats, shoots and leaves Bestdrink book Newcomer ofthe year 2004 Dave Broom Rum 2004 Monica Ali Brick Lane Guardian First Book Award Literary fiction award 2004 Armand Marie Leroi Mutants 2004 Mark Haddon The curious incident of the dog in JamesTait Black Memorial Prize the night-time Biography Richard and Judy'sbest read ofthe year 2003 Janet Browne Charles Darwin: the power of 2004 Alice Sebold The lovely bones place Biography of the year Fiction 2004 Roy Jenkins Churchill 2003 Andrew O'Hagan Personality History book of the year 2004 Simon Sebag Stalin: the court of the Red Tzar JewishQuarterly/WingateLiteraryPrize Fiction British Fantasy Society Awards 2003 David Grossman Someone to run with Best novel Non-fiction 2004 Christopher Fowler Full dark house 2003 Amos Elon The pity of it all: a portrait of Jews Bestcollection in Germany 1743 -1933 2004 Ramsey Campbell To ld by th e de a d John Llewellyn Rhys / Mail on Sunday Prize British SF Association Award 2004 Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem Best novel 2003 Jon Courtenay Grimwood Man Booker Prize Felaheen 2004 Alan Hollinghurst The line of beauty Best shortfiction McKitterick Prize (Society of Authors) 2003 Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean 2004 Mark Haddon The curious incident of the dog in The wolves in the walls the night-time Caine Prize for African Writing Marsh Biography Award (biennial) 2004 Brian Chikwava Seventh Street alchemy 2003 Brenda Maddox Rosalind Franklin
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MIND Book of theYear Lifestyle 2004 Hilary Mantel Giving up the ghost 2004 Colin McAllister & Justin Ryan Natural World Book Prize The million pound property Discontinued experiment Debut novel Orange Award 2004 Monica Ali Brick Lane 2004 Andrea Levy Small island Te e n ch oice JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography / Biography 2004 Terry Pratchett The wee free men 2004 Bryan Magee Clouds of glory: a Hoxton WH SmithThumping Good Read Award childhood 2004 Discontinued Romantic Novelists'Association Awards Whitbread Awards Parker Romantic novel of the year Book ofthe year (overall winner) 2004 Jojo Moyes Foreign fruit 2004 Andrea Levy Small island Saga Award for Wit Bestfirst novel 2004 Christopher Robbins The Empress of Ireland 2004 Susan Fletcher Eve Green Sagittarius Prize (Society of Authors) Biography 2004 William Newton The two pound tram 2004 John Guy Myheartismyown:thestoryof Saltire Society Scottish Awards Mary Queen of Scots Book ofthe year Best novel 2004 Andrew Greig In another light 2004 Andrea Levy Small island First book of the year Poetry 2004 Peter Hill Stargazing 2004 Michael Symmons Roberts Corpus Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2004 Anna Funder Stasiland: stories frombehind the WilliamHill Sports Book of theYear Award BerlinWall 2004 Peter Oborne Basil D'Oliviera Scottish Arts Council Book of theYear 2004 James Robertson Joseph Knight UNITED STATES/ VERENIGDE STATE Somerset Maugham Awards (Society of Authors) 2004 Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem Book Sense Book of theYear Awards (previously American Mark Blayney Two kinds of silence Booksellers'Book oftheYear Awards) Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the mind Fiction 2003 Alice Sebold The lovely bones SundayTimesYoung Writer of theYear Award Non-fiction 2004 Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the mind 2003 Alexandra Fuller Don't let's go to the dogs tonight TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Mystery Writers of America) 2004 Georg Szirtes Reel Best novel Thomas Cook / DailyTelegraphTravel Book Award 2004 Ian Rankin Resurrection men 2004 Richard Grant Ghost riders Best first novel by an American author WH Heinemann Award 2004 Rebecca Pawel Death of a nationalist 2004 Adam Nicolson Power and glory: Jacobean England Bestfactualcrime and the making of the King James 2004 Erik Larson The devil in the white city Bible Best original paperback WH Smith Literary Award 2004 Sylvia MautashWarsh Find me again 2004 Richard Powers The time of our singing Mary Higgins Clarke Award 2004 MKPreston Song of the bones WHSmithPeople'sChoiceBookAwards Business Hugo Awards 2004 Barbara Cassani & Kenny Kemp Novel Go: an airline adventure 2004 Lois McMaster Bujold Paladin of souls Fiction Novella 2004 JKRowling Harry Potter and the order of 2004 Vernor Vinge The cookie monster the phoenix Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards Autobiography / Biography Adult 2004 Nigel Slater Toast: the story of a boy's hunger 2004 Robin McKinley Sunshine Factual National Book Awards 2004 Michael Moore Dude, where's my country? Fiction Tra v e l 2004 LilyTuck The news fromParaguay: a novel 2004 Geoff Dyer Yoga for people who can't be Non-fiction bothered 2004 Kevin Boyle Arc of justice: a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age
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Poetry Caribbean & Canada: Best book 2004 JeanValentine Door in the mountain: new and 2005 Alice Munro Runaway collected poems Caribbean & Canada: Best first book Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters 2005 David Bezmozgis Natasha and other stories 2004 Judy Blume Eurasia: Best book Nebula Awards 2005 Andrea Levy Small island Novel Eurasia: Best first book 2003 Elizabeth Moon The speed of dark 2005 Rupa Bajwa The sari shop Novella Governor-General's Literary Awards (Canada) 2003 Neil Gaiman Coraline Fiction in English Grand Master 2003 Douglas Glover Elle 2003 Robert Silverberg Non-fiction in English 2004 Anne McCaffrey 2003 Margaret Macmillan Paris1919: six months that changed Philip K Dick Award the world 2003 Richard KMorgan Altered carbon Independent Foreign Fiction Award Pulitzer Prize 2004 Javier Cercas Soldiers of Salamis: a novel Fiction (translated by Anne McLean) 2004 Edward P Jones The known world International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award General non-fiction 2004 Tarhar Ben Jelloun This blinding absence of light 2004 Anne Applebaum Gulag: a history Kiriyama Prize for Non-fiction Poetry 2005 Suketo Mehta Maximum city: Bombay lost 2004 Franz Wright Walking in Martha's Vineyard and found Biography Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa 2004 WilliamTaubman Krushchev: the man and his era Adult fiction award Drama 2004 YvonneVera The stone virgins 2004 Doug Wright I ammyown wife History Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australia) 2004 Steven Hahn A nation under our feet: black 2003 Alex Miller Journey to the stone country political struggles in the rural South Nobel Prize for Literature fromslavery to the great migration 2004 Elfrieda Jelinek Prix Aurora Awards (Canada) English language AWARDS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND 2004 Robert Charles Wilson Blind lake INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Prix Goncourt (France) TOEKENNINGSVAN ANDER LANDE EN 2004 Laurent Gaude Le soleil des Scorta INTERNASIONALETOEKENNINGS Russian Literary Bestseller Prize 2003 Garros-Evdokimov Headcrusher Australian Science Fiction Achievement Awards (Ditmars) World Fantasy Award 2004 KJBishop The etched city Best novel Caine Prize for African Writing 2004 JoWalton Tooth and claw 2004 Brian Chikwava Seventh Street alchemy Bestcollection 2004 Elizabeth Hand Bibliomancy Commonwealth Writers' Prizes Best anthology Best book 2004 Strange tales 2004 Caryl Phillips Adistantshore (editedbyRosalieParker) 2005 Andrea Levy Small island Bestfirst book 2004 Mark Haddon The curious incident of the dog in the night-time CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS 2005 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple hibiscus BEKROONDE KINDERBOEKE Regional Prizes Africa: Best book SOUTH AFRICA / SUID-AFRIKA 2005 Lindsey Collen Boy Africa: Best first book Alba Bouwer Prys vir Kinderliteratuur 2005 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2004 Leon deVilliers Droomoog Diepgrawer Purple hibiscus ATKV KinderboekToekennings Southeast Asia & South Pacific: Best book 2004 2005 Andrew McGahan The white earth 3-6jaar Southeast Asia & South Pacific: Best first book Leon de Villiers Parmant (illustrasies deur 2005 Larissa Behrendt Home Samantha van Riet) % Kaapse Bibl., Mar/Apr 2005 17 BOOKWORLD
Graad 1-3 Best newillustratoraward Una Koch Manie se motor (illustrasies 2004 Polly Horner Polly and the north star deur Alta Joubert) Booktrust Teenage Prize Graad 4 -5 2004 Anne Cassidy Looking for JJ Leon de Villiers Erik en die Kido-dinges Branford/Boase Award Graad 6 -7 2004 Mal Peet Keeper (edited by Paul Harrison) Jaco Jacobs Pretpark Graad 8 -10 Carnegie Medal Carina Diedericks-Hugo Koning Henry 2003 Jennifer Donnelly A gathering light 2003 3-5jaar Guardian Children's Fiction Award Geen toekenning 2004 Meg Rosoff How I live now 6-7jaar Kate Greenaway Medal Leon de Villiers Elsie soek'n strooihoed 2004 Shirley Hughes Ella's big chance: a fairy tale retold 8-9jaar Antoinette Nightingale Dinge wat krrraakkk maak Marsh Award for Children's Literature inTranslation 10 -12 jaar 2004 Daniel Pennac Eye of the wolf (translated by Riana Scheepers Blinde sambok Sarah Adams) 13 -15 jaar Nestle¨Smarties Book Prize Anne-Marie Conradie Tippex dit uit Under 5 years Exclusive Books One Club Prize 2004 Mini Grey Biscuit Bear 2004 Carolyn Mackler The earth, my butt and other 6-8years round things 2004 Paul Stewart Fergus Crane (illustrated by Chris Riddell) MER Prys vir Jeuglektuur 9-11years 2004 Willemvan der Walt Ragtime en rocks 2004 Sally Grindley Spilled water MER Prys vir Kinderlektuur Red House Children's Book Awards 2004 Martie Preller Ek is Simon For younger children Scheepers Prys vir Jeugliteratuur 2004 Kes Gray Billy's bucket 2004 Willemvan der Walt Ragtime en rocks For younger readers Tienie Holloway Medalje vir Kleuterliteratuur 2004 Gwyneth Rees The Mumhunt 2003 Martie Preller Babalela en Lisa het'n plan For older readers 2004 Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful (overallwinner) Vivian Wilkes Award 2004 Lyn Gilbert The song of six birds W H Smith Children's Book of theYear (text by Rene Deetlefs) 2004 Mark Haddon The curious incident of the dog in the night-time Whitbread Children's Book of theYear GREAT BRITAIN / GROOT-BRITTANJE 2004 Geraldine McCaughrean Not the end of the world AskewsTorchlight Award 2004 Cressida Cowell How to train your dragon 2003 Cornelia Funke The thief lord UNITED STATES / VERENIGDE STATE 2002 Anthony Horowitz Point Blanc Aventis Prize for Science Books John Newbery Medal 2004 Nick Arnold & Tonyde Saulles 2005 Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira Really rotten experiments Michael L Printz Award Blue Peter Awards 2004 Angela Johnson The first part last The book I couldn't put down National Book Award forYoung People's Literature 2004 Eleanor Updale Montmorency 2004 Pete Hautman Godless The best illustrated book to read aloud Randolph Caldecott Medal 2004 Simon Bartram Man on the moon (overallwinner) 2005 Kevin Henkes Kitten's first full moon The best book with facts in it 2004 The ultimate book guide (edited by Daniel Hahn) BooktrustEarlyYearsAward INTERNATIONAL / INTERNASIONAAL (this award replaces the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature Baby book award 2004 Lygia Bojunga (Brazil) 2004 David Ellwand & Mike Jolley Hans Christian Andersen Award Iloveyou! 2004 MartinWaddell (author) Pre-school award Max Velthuijs (illustrator) 2004 Julia Donaldson The snail and the whale (illustrated by Axel Scheffler)
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