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The Prize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 [5] – was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010), [5] Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine ...
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry. American Book Awards. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating ...
The Book Prize program was founded by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985. An award named for Seidenbaum was added a year after his death in 1990. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, and may be written originally in languages other than English.
The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2020 calendar year on June 11, 2021. [1][2] The awards highlighted coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial unrest, and other major stories in the U.S. that year. [1] Several publications, including The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News, received their first Pulitzers.
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents. [1][2] The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Judges read citations for each of the finalists' works at the ...
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948) who the Swedish Academy members praised "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." [1]
Events. January 1 – British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to literature. [1] September 7 – A Radio-Canada article reveals that 5,000 books from 30 French-language school libraries in Southwestern Ontario were destroyed by the ...