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  2. List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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    The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...

  3. List of winners of the National Book Award - Wikipedia

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    The categories' winners are selected from hundreds of preliminary nominees – "from 150 titles (Translated Literature) to upwards of 600 titles (Nonfiction)." [ 1 ] Since 2013, a long list of ten entries for each of the categories has been selected and announced in September, followed by five finalists for each category in October, with the ...

  4. Townsend Prize for Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Past award winners include Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, Philip Lee Williams, Ferrol Sams, Kathryn Stockett, Mary Hood, and Judson Mitcham, among others. The Prize was started in 1981 to honor the legacy of Jim Townsend, founding editor of Atlanta magazine—the model of the modern city magazine—and mentor to a generation of iconic ...

  5. List of literary awards - Wikipedia

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    Costa Book Awards (discontinued in 2021) Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author first published in the UK during the two preceding years. Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English ...

  6. 2021 Booker Prize - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Shakespeare tale scoops nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize

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    An engrossing account of “how Shakespeare became Shakespeare” has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.’s leading nonfiction book prize. James Shapiro’s “1599: A Year in the ...

  8. 2021 in literature - Wikipedia

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    National Book Award–Translated Literature: Elisa Shua Dusapin with Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.) Winter in Sokcho [213] National Book Award–Young People's Literature: Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club [213] National Book Critics Circle Award: National Book Critics–Fiction: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du ...

  9. PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - Wikipedia

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    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners, 2020–2029 [6] Year Author Title Ref. 2020 Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters [34] Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End [35] Peter Rock: The Night Swimmers: Maurice Carlos Ruffin: We Cast a Shadow: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 2021 Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies [36] [37] Matthew Salesses