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Major Book Awards |
Award-winning books of major literary awards, with links to more complete information at BookBrowse. |
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Each year literary foundations, trusts, and other famous organisations award prizes for the best recent books. Current winners are listed below, as well as links to previous winners.
BookBrowse monitors these major awards:
BookBrowse Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music
Man Booker Prize
The John Newbery Medal
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Awards
Costa Book Awards
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| BookBrowse Awards |
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Since 2000, BookBrowse has asked its members and subscribers to select the best books published each year. Through a rigorous voting process, this shortlist is then honed down to the find the BookBrowse Awards Winners. |
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| 2008 BookBrowse Awards Winners |
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| More about the BookBrowse Awards |
| Previous Winners |
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| Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music |
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Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism. |
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| 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music Winners |
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| Previous Winners |
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| Man Booker Prize |
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Awarded in October each year, the Man Booker Prize is the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world. |
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| 2007 Man Booker Prize Winners |
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| The John Newbery Medal |
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The Newbery Medal is awarded in January each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. |
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| 2008 The John Newbery Medal Winners |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award |
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Each March, the NBCC present awards for the finest books and reviews published in English (in the USA) the previous year in six categories: Fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry. |
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| 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners |
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| National Book Awards |
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First awarded in 1950, the National Book Awards recognize the best of American literature. The Awards are announced in April. |
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| 2007 National Book Awards Winners |
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| Costa Book Awards |
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The Costas are the UK's most prestigious book awards. Established by Whitbread Plc in 1971 and known as the Whitbread Awards, they were rebranded the Costa Awards in 2006. Costa is a UK based coffee shop chain owned by Whitbread Plc. The five category winners (First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book) are announced in early January, honoring books published the previous year. The Costa Book of the Year Award is announced in late January. |
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| 2008 Costa Book Awards Winners |
- Costa First Novel Award (formerly Whitbread):
What Was Lost
by Catherine O'Flynn
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| Previous Winners |
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