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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.
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.
2009 BookBrowse Awards Winners
Diamond Award for Most Popular Book:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Sapphire Award for Most Popular Debut Author:
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Winner of BookBrowse's Favorite Nonfiction Book Award:
Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
Winner of BookBrowse's Favorite Children's Book Award:
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
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.
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music Winners
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.
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.
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.
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
NBCC Award for Fiction:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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.
2009 Costa Book Awards Winners
Costa Novel Award (formerly Whitbread):
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Costa Biography Award (formerly Whitbread):
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
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