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Children & Young Adult Prizes

2009 Carnegie Medal Winner

Winner DOWD, SIOBHAN Bog Child
(Age range: 12+)

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds something that makes his heart stop. Curled up deep in the bog is the body of the child. And it looks as if she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the troubled world around him (it is 1980s Ireland), a little voice come to him in his dreams and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. More

Judges: This is a beautifully written and controlled novel, strong on dialogue but with some beautiful descriptive phrases as well. The dual narrative is deftly done and Dowd is very good on family relationships and the atmosphere of the times. The ending is satisfying, and the whole believable and unflinching Shortlist

2009 Kate Greenaway Medal Winner

Rayner, Catherine Harris Finds His Feet
Publisher: Little Tiger Press ISBN: 9781845065898Little Tiger Press (Age range: 3+)
ISBN: 9781845065898

Harris, a very small hare with very big feet goes out with his Grandad and finds out not only how to hop high into the sky, climb to the tops of the mountains and run very fast, but also about the importance of finding his own feet. More

Judges comments:Harris is a triumph from the way he moves and his expressions to his velvety fur and his hands and feet. His relationship with his Grandad is beautifully evoked as are the times of day and the textures of the exquisite landscapes around him. Shortlist

Red House Winners - CBI Bisto Award Leabhar-Ghradaim - Blue Peter Winner Marsh - Award for Children's Literature in Translation - Costa Children's - Booktrust Teenage Prize - Roald Dahl Funny Prize

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Inaugural Spear’s Book Award Winners

June 30th- A new addition to Literary Award World, with an aim to celebrate the very best books of the year – from finance to fiction. Some stunning and thoughtful books have won in 2009 across six categories including the unusual (for award world) 'Coffee Table' and 'Family History' genres. Details

International 100,000 Euro IMPAC Dublin

U.S. author Michael Thomas has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, for Man Gone Down, about a once-promising Harvard student who is now broke and trying to raise money to keep his family together . Details

£10,000 Dundee International Book Prize

June 27 - Chris Longmuir has won the Dundee International Book Prize for emerging novelists for her gritty first crime novel Dead Wood. Details 

£10,000 Prize Wales Book of the Year

Deborah Kay Davies has won the Wales Book of the Year 2009 for her debut collection of short stories Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful published by Parthian.

The two runners-up were each awarded £1,000: Gee Williams for Blood etc. (Parthian) and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch for Not in these Shoes (Picador).

The winner of the Welsh-language award, who also received a £10,000 prize, was William Owen Roberts for his work, Petrograd (Cyhoeddiadau Bardda) More

£25,000 Scottish Book of the Year

June 18 - Kieron Smith, Boy , by James Kelman. Was it the only novel of worth with a Scottish pedigree in the last year? It can now add the Scottish Arts Council Prize to it's honours list. Details

Orwell Prize for Political Writing Winner-

Winner: , Andrew Brown for Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future That Disappeared. Patrick Cockburn – was awarded the Journalism Prize for articles from the London Review of Books and the London Independent.

Jack Night was awarded the Special Prize for Blogs for his blog, NightJack – An English Detective. (Jack Night, a pseudonym, is a serving police officer). Details

Crime Writers Association 'Daggers' Awards Shortlists

7th June - This years list sees the A-team in contention for the International prize including Stieg Larsson, for The Girl who played with Fire, Fred Vargas, for The Chalk Circle Man and Karin Alvtegen, for Shadow. Full lists all categories

Orange Prize Winner

4th June, 2009- The 2009  Orange Prize, has been won by American  Marilynne Robinson for her novel : Home . Details & full lists 2009 Orange Broadband New Writer Francesca Kay for An Equal Stillness Full lists

Muslim Writers' Winners

Kamila Shamsie's, Burnt Shadows has won the 2009 Fiction prize and Shelina Zahra Janmohamed's , Love in a Headscarf: Muslim woman seeks the One, the Non-fiction category. Details and other shortlisted

British Fantasy

June -Administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971, the 2009 shortlist, include the omnipresent Stephen King, Full lists

2009 Desmond Elliott Shortlist - Down to Final Three Runners  

26th May, 2009 - Only in Britain do we bet on the outcome of Literary Awards. The contenders in a tight field are:

Blackmoor by Edward Hogan - 5/4 Favourite A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi - 7/4 The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn - 2/1

All authors and judges to give urine samples for drug testing? Go you good things. Full book details

Galaxy British Winners Obama & Meyer

4th April- Populist? Predictable? Perfect theatre? Yes. of course. But, the Nibbies are unapologetically so. Kate Summerscale's the excellent, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House, won the Book of the Year Award. Full lists