Recently in Awards & Honors Category
Winners of the 2008 Hugo Award were recently announced and included:
- Best Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate)
- Best Short Story: “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s June 2007)
- Best Related Book: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher (Oxford University Press)
English writer Doris Lessing has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described her as “that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.”
American author Cormac McCarthy was recently awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize, the UK's oldest and most literary of book awards, for his bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic America, The Road.See The Guardian article for more details.
The Pulitzer Board awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners earlier this week. Some of the winners included:
For Public Service - The Wall Street Journal
"Awarded to The Wall Street Journal for its creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America."
For Fiction - Cormac McCarthy, "The Road"
“The Road [is] Cormac McCarthy’s new masterpiece . . . Lush, sensuous prose . . . Gorgeous descriptions . . . . . . He evokes Hemingway’s literary vision in order to invert it, first by eliminating the promise that nature can provide a refuge from human destruction and finally by giving us redemption in the form of the love between a parent and a child.”
–Jennifer Egan, Slate
For Poetry - Natasha Trethewey, "Native Guard"
For Public Service - The Wall Street Journal"Awarded to The Wall Street Journal for its creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America."
For Fiction - Cormac McCarthy, "The Road"“The Road [is] Cormac McCarthy’s new masterpiece . . . Lush, sensuous prose . . . Gorgeous descriptions . . . . . . He evokes Hemingway’s literary vision in order to invert it, first by eliminating the promise that nature can provide a refuge from human destruction and finally by giving us redemption in the form of the love between a parent and a child.”
–Jennifer Egan, Slate
For Poetry - Natasha Trethewey, "Native Guard""Trethewey's style is reserved, even cautious, though her subjects are emotionally charged, even violent. This creates an interesting dichotomy, especially in poems such as "Pastoral" with its touchy image of Trethewey confronting the great white Southern poets -- Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren and others -- while in blackface. Though this is her third book, Trethewey is still perfecting her voice and may have only scratched the surface of her remarkable talent."
-Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, The Washington Post's Book World
The Online News Association (ONA) has announced the finalists for the 2006 Online Journalism Awards. The awards will be given on October 7th at the 2006 ONA Conference held at the Capital Hilton in Washington D.C..The Online Journalism Awards are "a comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in English-language Web journalism."
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