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Literary Awards Literêre Toekennings Amabhaso Woncwadi
2011/2012 Update
Compiled by Sabrina Gosling, Theresa Sass and Alan Paton Award for Non-fiction Stanley Jonck 2011 Ronnie Kasrils The unlikely secret agent Book Selectors 2012 Hugh Lewin Stones against the mirror he following list of literary awards is intended to supplement the Andrew Murray-Desmond Tutu Prize for Best Christian or booklets Literary awards and Award-winning children's books, as Theological Book In Any Official Language of South Africa well as the annual updates appearing in the CL. This list is as T 2012 John de Gruchy John Calvin – Christian complete as we have been able to make it, using available sources such humanist and evangelical as press reports, reviewing periodicals and the Internet. reformer Please note that in some cases it is difficult to determine the precise date of an award. Andrew Murray Prys vir die Beste Christelike Boek in Afrikaans If you notice any errors, or can add to the information, please contact 2012 Frits Gaum Fluit-fluit, die kerk is uit? Sabrina Gosling, Western Cape Provincial Library Service, PO Box 2108, ATKV Woordveertjies Cape Town, 8000, tel (021) 483-2225, or e-mail
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CL Engelbrecht Prys vir Letterkunde Film category 2012 Ingrid Winterbach Die boek van toeval en 2011 Cynthia Jele Happiness is a four-letter toeverlaat word The Citizen Book Prize (unpublished work) NB-Uitgewers Groot Romankompetisie 2011 Joanne Garland Layers Eerste prys Ds Pieter van Drimmelen Medalje (drie-jaarliks vanaf 2010; was 2011 Ingrid Winterbach Die aanspraak van lewende voorheen jaarliks) wesens Volgende toekenning in 2013 Tweede prys Eugène Marais Prys 2011 Chris Karsten ’n Man van min belang 2012 Sonja Loots Sirkusboere Derde prys European Union Literary Award for Best First Novel (unpub- 2011 Jaco Fouché Liefste Lena lished) Debuut prys 2011 Ashraf Kagee Kahlil’s 2011 Carié Maas Koljander journey Olive Schreiner Prize (Drama) Fiësta-Toekenning vir Lewenslange Bydrae tot die Afrikaanse Woordkuns 2011 Nicholas London Road Spagnoletti 2012 Elsa Joubert PanSALB (The Pan South African Language Board) Award Helgaard Steyn Prys (Hierdie prys word jaarliks om die beurt aan ’n komponis, skilder, skrywer of beeldhouer toegeken) No award in 2012 2012 PG du Plessis Fees van die ongenooides Protea Prys vir Poësie Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Literature 2011 Louis Esterhuizen Wat die water onthou 2012 Michiel Heyns Lost ground Recht Malan Prys Hertzog Prys (Drama) 2012 Anton Harber Diepsloot 2012 Adam Small Toegeken vir sy drama- Sefika Booksellers’ Choice Award oeuvre 2011 Alex Smith Four drunk beauties Ingrid Jonker Debuut Prys vir Poësie (Afrikaans) Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award (inaugural) 2011 Melt Myburgh Oewerbestaan 2011 Dawn Garisch (for the poem Miracle) Jan Rabie en Marjorie Wallace Beurs South African Literary Awards (SALAS) 2011 Willem Anker Posthumous literary award Jan Rabie / Rapport Prys vir Innoverende Afrikaanse 2011 Jan Rabie Letterkunde (Afrikaans) 2012 SJ Naudé Alfabet van die voëls K Sello Duiker memorial literary award Lapa-romankompetisie (geen vaste tydinterval nie) 2011 Dan Sleigh Afstande Laaste toekenning was vir 2010 publikasies (Afrikaans) EDM Sibiya Ngiyolibala Ngifile Louis Hiemstra Prys vir Nie-Fiksie (driejaarliks) (IsiZulu) Laaste toekenning was in 2011 Chairperson’s award M-Net Literary Awards 2011 KPD Maphalla English (Sesotho) 2011 Ivan Vladislavic Double negative Nkadimeng Leutsoa Afrikaans (Sesotho) 2011 Ingrid Winterbach Die benederyk Literary journalism award Nguni 2011 Sabata Mpho Mokae (English) (print media re- 2011 Ncedile Saule Inkululeko isentabeni portage and electronic media presentations) Sotho 2011 KJ Sekele Lehutso
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Literary translator’s award Woordtrofee Pryse 2011 Leon de Kock Intimately absent (translation Woordkunstenaar van die jaar of Intieme afwesige by Cas 2011 Sonja Loots Sirkusboere Vos) Woordfees debuutteksprys Literary lifetime achievement award 2011 Theo Kemp Skool 2011 Chris Barnard (Afrikaans) GREAT BRITAIN / GROOT-BRITTANJE Nadine Gordimer short story award for writing in indigenous lan- guages in South Africa Amazon Rising Star of the Year 2011 Not awarded 2011 Elizabeth Haynes Into the darkest corner Poetry award Arthur C Clarke Award 2011 Phillippa Yaa de The everyday wife 2012 Jane Rogers The testament of Jessie Villiers Lamb South African literary awards debut prize Betty Trask Awards (Society of Authors) 2011 Sifiso Mzobe Young blood Betty Trask prize (English) 2011 Anjali Joseph Saraswati Park Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie Prys vir Vertaalde Werk (drie-jaarliks) Betty Trask awards Volgende toekenning in 2014 2011 Laura Barton Twenty one locks Sunday Times Fiction Award 2011 Simon Lelic Rupture 2011 Sifiso Mzobe Young blood 2011 Robert Williams Luke and Jon 2012 Michiel Heyns Lost ground Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Thomas Pringle Awards (English Academy of Southern Africa) 2011 Bernadette Freedom climbers Reviews McDonald 2011 Mary Corrigall for reviews published in The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for a Comic Novel Sunday Independent 2011 Terry Pratchett Snuff Educational article Brit Writers’ Award Unpublished Writer of the Year 2011 Aslam Fataar and Charles van Reenen (Joint winners) 2011 Georgina Kirk Poems British Book Awards (Nibbies) (see Galaxy National Book Awards) 2011 Kelwyn Sole for the poem Cape Town British Fantasy Awards UJ (University of Johannesburg) Prize for Creative Writing in Best novel English 2011 Sam Stone Demon dance (prize 2011 Ivan Vladislavic Double negative returned) 2012 Craig Higginson The landscape painter Best collection UJ Prize for Debut Writing in English 2011 Stephen King Full dark, no stars 2011 Shaida Kazie Ali Not a fairy tale Best comic / graphic novel 2012 Terry The sea of wise insects 2011 INJ Culbard At the mountains of Westby-Nunn madness UJ Prys vir die Beste Skeppende Skryfwerk in Afrikaans British SF Association Award for best novel 2011 Marlene van Die sneeuslaper 2011 Christopher The islanders Niekerk Priest UJ Prys vir Debuutwerk in Afrikaans British Sports Book Awards 2011 Nicole Jaekel Maal: kortverhale Best new writer prize Strauss 2012 Bill Jones The ghost runner: the WA Hofmeyr Prys tragedy of the man they 2012 Dan Sleigh Wals met Matilda couldn’t stop
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Thriller and Crime novel of the year Epic romantic novel 2011 SJ Watson Before I go to sleep 2012 Rosie Thomas The Kashmir shawl Outstanding achievement award Romantic comedy 2011 Jackie Collins 2012 Jane Lovering Please don’t stop the music Guardian First Book Award 2011 Siddhartha The emperor of all maladies Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Book Mukherjee 2011 Gavin The wave-watcher’s James Tait Black Memorial Prizes Pretor-Pinney companion Biography Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year 2011 Hilary Spurling Burying the bones: Pearl 2011 Alasdair Gray A life in pictures Buck in China Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Fiction 2011 Luke Williams The echo chamber 2011 Tatjana Soli The lotus eaters Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction John Llewellyn Rhys / Mail on Sunday Prize 2011 Frank Dikötter Mao’s great famine Suspended Scottish Arts Council Book Awards Literary Review’s Bad Sex Awards Scottish book of the year (Overall winner) 2011 David Guterson Ed King 2011 Jackie Kay Red dust road McKitterick Prize (Society of Authors) Non-fiction 2011 Emma Henderson Grace Williams says it loud 2011 Jackie Kay Red dust road Man Booker Prize Fiction 2011 Julian Barnes The sense of an ending 2011 Leila Aboulela Lyrics Alley Not the Booker Prize Poetry 2011 Michael Stewart King Crow 2011 Stewart Conn The breakfast room Ondaatje Prize (Royal Society of Literature) First book 2011 Rahul Bhattach- The sly company of people arya who care 2011 Sue Peebles The death of Lomond Friel Orange Prize for Fiction Somerset Maugham Awards (Society of Authors) 2011 Tea Obreht The tiger’s wife 2011 Miriam Gamble The squirrels are dead 2012 Madeline Miller The song of Achilles Alexandra Harris Romantic moderns Orange Prize for a New Writer Adam O’Riordan In the flesh Discontinued Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award Orwell Prize (Book category) 2011 Lee Child 61 hours 2012 Toby Harnden Dead men risen TS Eliot Prize for Poetry (The Poetry Book Society) PEN / Ackerley Prize for Autobiography 2011 John Burnside Black cat bone 2011 Michael Frayn My father’s fortune Ultimate Christian Library Book Award (Adult category) Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards 2012 Andrew White Faith under fire Romantic novel of the year (overall winner) Wales Book of the Year (English-language) 2012 Jane Lovering Please don’t stop the music 2011 John Harrison Cloud Road Historical romantic novel Wellcome Trust Book Prize (for outstanding works of fiction or non-fiction on the themes of health, illness or medicine) 2012 Christina Highland storms Courtenay 2011 Alice LaPlante Turn of mind Contemporary romantic novel William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012 Katie Fforde Summer of love 2011 Ronald Reng A life too short: the tragedy of Robert Enke
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Best first novel UNITED STATES / VERENIGDE STATE 2011 NK Jemisin The Hundred Thousand Agatha Awards Kingdoms Best novel Mary Higgins Clark Award (Mystery Writers of America) 2010 Louise Penny Bury your dead 2012 Sara J Henry Learning to swim: a novel 2011 Margaret Maron Three-day town Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best first novel 2011 Karen Lord Redemption in indigo 2010 Avery Aames The long quiche goodbye National Book Awards 2011 Sara J Henry Learning to swim: a novel Fiction Best historical mystery (inaugural) 2011 Jesmyn Ward Salvage the bones 2011 Rhys Bowen Naughty in Nice Non-fiction Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and 2011 Stephen The swerve: how the world Fantasy (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America) Greenblatt became modern 2010 Terry Pratchett I shall wear midnight Poetry 2011 Delia Sherman The Freedom Maze 2011 Nikky Finney Head off & split Bram Stoker Awards for Horror Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters Novel 2011 John Ashbery 2010 Peter Straub A dark matter Young peoples’ literature First novel 2011 Thanhha Lai Inside out & back again 2010 Lisa Morton Castle of Los Angeles National Book Critics Circle Awards Benjamin Kane Black and orange Fiction (shared) 2011 Edith Pearlman Binocular vision: new and selected stories Fiction collection General non-fiction 2010 Stephen King Full dark, no stars 2011 Maya Jasanoff Liberty’s exiles: American Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Mystery Writers of America) loyalists in the revolutionary Best novel world 2012 Mo Hayder Gone Biography Best first novel 2011 John Lewis George F Kennan: an 2012 Lori Roy Bent Road Gaddis American life Best paperback original Autobiography 2012 Robert Jackson The company man 2011 Mira Bartók The memory palace: a Bennett memoir Grand Master award Criticism 2012 Martha Grimes 2011 Geoff Dyer Otherwise known as the human condition: selected Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel essays 2011 Connie Willis Black out / All clear Poetry John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer 2011 Laura Kasische Space, in chains 2011 Lev Grossman Nebula Awards Locus Awards Novel Science fiction novel 2010 Connie Willis Blackout / All clear 2011 Connie Willis Black out / All clear 2011 Jo Walton Among others Fantasy novel 2011 China Miéville Kraken
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Novella Best first book 2010 Rachel Swirsky The lady who plucked red 2011 Kaki Warner Pieces of sky flowers beneath the queen’s Best young adult romance window 2011 Julie Kagawa The Iron King 2011 Kij Johnson The man who bridged the mist Best novel with strong romantic elements Damon Knight Grand Master 2011 Jodi Thomas Welcome to Harmony 2011 Connie Willis AWARDS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND PEN/Faulkner Award INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 2012 Julia Otsuka The Buddha in the attic Philip K Dick Award for Best Original Science Fiction Paperback TOEKENNINGS VAN ANDER LANDE EN Novel INTERNASIONALE TOEKENNINGS 2012 Simon Morden The Samuil Petrovitch trilogy Aurealis Awards (Australia) Pulitzer Prizes Science fiction novel Fiction 2011 Kim Westwood The courier’s new bicycle 2012 No award Fantasy novel General non-fiction 2011 Pamela Freeman Ember and Ash 2012 Stephen The swerve: how the world Horror novel Greenblatt became modern 2011 No award Poetry Illustrated book / Graphic novel 2012 Tracy K Smith Life on Mars 2011 Mirranda Burton Hidden Biography / Autobiography (shared) Tom Taylor The deep: here be dragons 2012 John Lewis George F Kennan: an (author) and Gaddis American life James Brouwer Drama (illustrator) 2012 Quiara Alegria Water by the spoonful The Australian / Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manu- Hudes script by an author under the age of 35) History 2012 Paul D Carter Eleven seasons 2012 Manning Marable Malcolm X: a life of Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards reinvention Fiction RITA Awards (Romance Writers of America) 2011 Stephen Daisley Traitor Best contemporary romance Non-fiction 2011 Jill Shalvis Simply irresistible 2011 Rod Moss The hard light of day Best paranormal romance Best Swedish Crime Novel Award (Sweden) 2011 Sharon Ashwood Unchained: the dark 2009 Anders Roslund Tre sekunder (Three forgotten and Börge seconds) Best inspirational romance Hellström 2011 Irene Hannon In harm’s way 2010 Leif GW Persson Den döende detektiven Best romantic suspense Caine Prize for African Writing (short story) 2011 Karen Rose Silent scream 2011 NoViolet Hitting Budapest Bulawayo Best historical romance Cervantes Prize (Spain) 2011 Sherry Thomas His at night 2011 Nicanor Parra Best Regency historical romance Commonwealth Book Prize (for best first book - open to 2011 Lauren Willig The mischief of the writers who have had their first novel published in 2011) mistletoe
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Best first book (Overall winner) Giller Prize (Canada) 2012 Shehan Chinaman: the legend of 2011 Esi Edugyan Half-blood blues Karunatilaka Pradeep Mathew Independent Foreign Fiction Award Regional winners 2011 Aharon Appelfeld Blooms of darkness 2012 Africa: Jacques The dubious salvation of (author) and Strauss Jack V Jeffrey M Green 2012 Asia: Shehan Chinaman: the legend of (translator) Karunatilaka Pradeep Mathew International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 Canada and Eu- The town that drowned 2011 Colum McCann Let the great world spin rope: Riel Nason 2012 Jon McGregor Even the dogs 2012 Caribbean: Alecia Sweetheart International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Abu Dhabi) McKenzie 2012 Rabee Jaber The Druze of Belgrade 2012 Pacific: Cory Me and Mr Booker Taylor Irish Book Awards (Ireland) Commonwealth Writers’ Book Prizes Discontinued in old Bob Hughes lifetime achievement award format. See Commonwealth Book Prize above. 2011 Seamus Heaney Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (Australia) Hughes & Hughes Irish novel of the year 2011 Alex Miller Lovesong 2011 Neil Jordan Mistaken CWA International Dagger Eason Irish popular fiction book of the year 2011 Anders Roslund Three seconds 2011 Sheila O’Flanagan All for you and Börge John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Hellström Novel Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers (University of Wales) 2011 Ian McDonald The Dervish House 2011 Lucy Caldwell The meeting point Man Asian Literary Prize European Prize for Literature / Prix Européen de Littérature 2011 Shin Kyung-sook Please look after my mom 2010 Tony Harrison Man Booker International Prize for Fiction (biennial) (Great Britain) Next prize 2013 2011 Drago Jancar Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australia) (Slovenia) 2011 Kim Scott That deadman dance European Union Prize for Literature (Only English-language winners are listed) Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature (Egypt) 2009 Karen Gillece Longshore drift 2011: For the previous 14 years, the Mahfouz award has provided US$1000 and publication in English to an Arab author. But this 2011 Adam Foulds The quickening maze year, the award was presented, symbolically, to ‘the revolutionary Finlandia Prize (Finland) creativity of the Egyptian people during the popular uprising that 2011 Rosa Liksum Hytti nro. 6 (Compartment began on 25 January 2011’. no. 6) Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writers Association of Australia) Franz Kafka Prize (International) Best fiction 2010 Václav Havel 2011 Geoffrey The Diggers Rest Hotel 2011 John Banville McGeachin 2012 Daniela Hodrová Best first fiction German Book Prize (Germany) 2011 Alan Carter Prime cut 2011 Eugen Ruge In Zeiten des abnehmenden Nieustadt International Prize for Literature Lichts (In times of fading 2010 Rohinton Mistry light) Nobel Prize for Literature Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction (Canada) 2011 Tomas Tranströmer English language 2011 Patrick deWitt The Sisters brothers
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Nordic Council Literature Prize Prix Renaudot (France) 2012 Merethe Days in the history of 2011 Emmanuel Limonov Lindstrom silence Carrére NZ Post Book Awards (New Zealand) Russian Booker Prize People’s choice award 2010 Elena Kolyadina The flower cross 2011 Chris Bourke Blue smoke: the lost dawn of 2011 Alexander Haze sets upon the old New Zealand popular music, Chudakov steps 1918-1964 Trillium Book Award (Canada) NZ Post book of the year (overall winner) 2011 Rabindranath The amazing absorbing boy 2011 Chris Bourke Blue smoke: the lost dawn of Maharaj New Zealand popular music, TS Eliot Prize for Poetry (Truman State University, USA) 1918-1964 2012 David Livewell Shackamaxon Fiction award Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (biennial) 2011 Laurence The hut builder Fearnley Not yet awarded General non-fiction award World Fantasy Award for best novel 2011 Chris Bourke Blue smoke: the lost dawn of 2011 Nnedi Okorafor Who fears death New Zealand popular music, 1918-1964 CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS - 2012 - Illustrated non-fiction award BEKROONDE KINDERBOEKE 2011 Damian Skinner The passing world, the passage of time SOUTH AFRICA / SUID-AFRIKA Poetry award Alba Bouwer Prys vir Kinderliteratuur (driejaarliks) 2011 Kate Camp The mirror of simple annihilated souls ATKV Kinderboek Toekennings New Zealand Society of Authors and Writers Association best Voorleeskategorie 3-6: skrywer first book of fiction 2011 Theresa van Karla Krullebol 2011 Pip Adam Everything we hoped for Baalen New Zealand Society of Authors and Writers Association best first Voorleeskategorie 3-6: illustreerder book of non-fiction 2011 Chris Venter Karla Krullebol 2011 Poia Rewi Whaikorero Selfleeskategorie Graad 1-3: skrywer Penguin Prize for African Writing 2011 Keina Swart Hoekom praat grootmense No information so snaaks? The Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (Spain) Selfleeskategorie Graad 1-3: illustreerder 2010 Amin Maalouf 2011 Maja Sereda Hoekom praat grootmense so snaaks? 2011 Leonard Cohen Selfleeskategorie Graad 4-5: skrywer 2012 Philip Roth 2011 Jaco Jacobs Harlekyn; Illustrasies deur Prix Femina Étranger (France) Diek Grobler 2011 Francisco Dire son nom (The wave) Selfleeskategorie Graad 4-5: illustreerder Goldman 2011 Alistair Agent Snoet en die groen Prix Goncourt (France) Ackermann genugtig; geskryf deur 2011 Alexis Jenni L’Art Français de la guerre Francois Bloemhof (The French art of war) Selfleeskategorie Graad 6-7 Prix Goncourt for a First Novel (France) 2011 Fanie Viljoen Nova: die begin 2011 Michel Rostain Le fils Selfleeskategorie Graad 8-10 2011 Nerine Ahlers en Liefde is . . . Alet Steenkamp
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Bookchat Book of the Year Award Blue Peter’s Best Children’s Book of the last 10 years The Bookchat web site was launched in 2008 for South African The shortlist is made up of the 10 best-selling fiction books of children’s books. Contains news and reviews of South African the last 10 years for 5 to 11-year-olds with a first publication date children’s books and incorporates a database of all South African between January 2002 and December 2011. children’s books in print. Jeff Kinney Diary of a wimpy kid 2010 Wendy Just Sisi; Illustrated by Joan Branford Boase Award Hartmann Rankin 2011 Jason Wallace Out of shadows 2011 Judy Froman Solomon’s story (author) Elsabe Steenberg Prys (vir vertaling) Charlie Sheppard 2012 Amelia de Vaal; Die lewe en werke van (editor) geskryf deur Wil kabouters Carnegie Medal Huygen Die oproep van die kabou- 2011 Patrick Ness Monsters of men ters; illustrasies deur Rien Poortvliet) Children's Laureate Exclusive Books / SA IBBY Award for an Illustrated Children’s The Children’s Laureate Award is funded by the Museums, Librar- Book ies and Archives Council and Arts Council England. The Chil- dren's Laureate is awarded once every two years to an eminent 2012 Linda Rode In die Immer-Nimmer-Bos writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding / In the Never-Ever Wood; achievement in their field. For more information on the award go illustrated by Fiona Moodie to www.childrenslaureate.org.uk. LAPA Jeugromankompetisie 2011-2013 Julia Donaldson 2011 Nanette van Ek was hier 2009-2011 Anthony Browne Rooyen 2007-2009 Michael Rosen Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards 2011 (Children’s stories) 2005-2007 Jacqueline Wilson Afrikaans Maya Fowler Om op eiers te dans 2003-2005 Michael Morpurgo English Jayne Bauling Stepping solo 2001-2003 Anne Fine isiXhosa Ezra Mcebisi Ngenxa Yesithembiso Nkohla 1999-2001 Quentin Blake Sepedi Herbert Tshweu ya ditsebe Costa Children’s Book of the Year Lentsoane 2011 Moira Young Blood red road Setswana Sello Mokua Ke Molato wag a mang? Guardian Children’s Fiction Award MER Prys vir Jeuglektuur 2011 Andy Mulligan Return to Ribblestrop 2012 SA Partridge Dark Poppy’s demise Kate Greenaway Medal MER Prys vir Kinderlektuur 2011 Grahame Baker- FArTHER 2012 Alex D’Angelo Goblin diaries; illustrasies Smith deur Marjorie van Heerden Galaxy National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year Tienie Holloway-medalje vir Kleuterliteratuur (Previously W H Smith Children’s Book of the Year) 2012 Theresa van Aspris-krokkedis; illustrasies 2011 Patrick Ness A monster calls: illustrated by Baalen deur Joan Rankin Jim Kay Great Britain / Groot Brittanje Red House Children’s Book Awards For younger children Blue Peter Awards 2011 Angela McAllister Yuck! That’s not a monster In a change of format from previous years, two fiction books and (author) two non-fiction books were chosen by a panel of judges to make Alison Edgson up a shortlist of four books. From this shortlist the Blue Peter (illustrator) book of the year was decided. For younger readers Book of the year 2011 Michael Shadow (overall winner) 2012 Gareth P Jones The Considine curse Morpurgo
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For older readers International / Internasionaal 2011 Alex Scarrow TimeRiders For younger children Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2012 Chris Wormell Scruffy Bear and the six 2012 Guus Kuijer white mice (Dutch author) For younger readers The Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2012 Liz Pichon The brilliant world of Tom 2012 María Teresa Andruetto, Argentina (author) Gates 2012 Peter Sís, Czech Republic (illustrator) For older readers IBBY–Asahi Reading Promotion Awards 2012 Patrick Ness A monster calls The winners are SIPAR in Cambodia (SIPAR has helped (author) Cambodia fight illiteracy and develop school and public reading). Jim Kay (illustra- Abuelas Cuentacuentos in Argentina (the Grandmother tions) storytelling programme which trains older people to read stories Roald Dahl Funny Prize to children). Six years and under 2011 Peter Bently Cats ahoy!
7-14 years 2011 Liz Pichon The brilliant world of Tom Gates The Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2011 Christine Dion How the world works; illustrated by Beverley Young
W H Smith’s Children’s Book of the Year See Galaxy National Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year Award Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2012 Jonny Duddle The pirates next door United States / Verenigde State
John Newbery Medal 2012 Jack Gantos Dead end in Norvelt Michael L Printz Award 2012 John Corey Where things come back Whaley National Book Award for Young People’s Literature 2011 Thanhha Lai Inside out & back again Randolph Caldecott Medal 2012 Chris Raschka A ball for Daisy Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award 2012 Bil Wright Putting makeup on the fat boy
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