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   Major Book Awards

Award-winning books of major literary awards, with links to more complete information at BookBrowse.

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:
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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
Indie Booksellers’ Choice 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.

2011 BookBrowse Awards Winners


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Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music

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.

2012 Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music Winners
  • Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
    The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

  • Pulitzer Prize for History:
    Malcolm X by Manning Marable

  • Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
    George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
    Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith



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Man Booker Prize

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.

2011 Man Booker Prize Winners


Previous Winners
The John Newbery Medal

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.

2012 The John Newbery Medal Winners


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National Book Critics Circle Award

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.

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners


Previous Winners
National Book Awards

First awarded in 1950, the National Book Awards recognize the best of American literature. The Awards are announced in November.

2011 National Book Awards Winners


Previous Winners
Costa Book Awards

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.

2012 Costa Book Awards Winners


Previous Winners
Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards

First awarded in 2011: “The award grew out of my distaste for most literary prizes,” explained Melville House’s Dennis Johnson. “The point is usually to laud some individual or book that doesn’t really need the stroking. We wanted to come up with something that would better support the ecosystem we live in. The IBCA is good for the author, good for the bookseller, and good for the publisher, and so it’s good for art and industry.”

2012 Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards Winners


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