Literature Awards

Book Sense Book of the Year Awards - Finalists for 2003

February 27, 2003 - Based on the nominations of ABA member booksellers, the Book Sense Book of the Year Award finalists in six categories were announced on February 27 by the American Booksellers Association. Booksellers will now vote for one winner in each category: Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Children's Literature, Children's Illustrated, Rediscovery, and, new this year, Paperback. Nominations were drawn from the top Book Sense 76 picks of 2002. The Book Sense 76 is a unique bimonthly list of independent booksellers' recommendations.


ADULT FICTION

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd


ADULT NONFICTION

Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

My Losing Season by Pat Conroy

Population, 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs


CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Summerland by Michael Chabon

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke


CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

Dear Mrs. LaRue by Mark Teague

Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin; illustrated by Betsy Lewin

The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth

The Spider & The Fly by Mary Howitt; illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

Toot & Puddle: Top of the World by Holly Hobbie


REDISCOVERY

Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman

Paper Moon by Joe David Brown

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake


PAPERBACK

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks


The winners are announced at the Celebration of Bookselling on Friday, May 30, at this year's BookExpo America, which will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California.

The Book Sense Book of the Year was first awarded in 2000, as a successor to the ABBY, the American Booksellers Book of the Year, which was established in 1991, to honor the books that independent booksellers most enjoyed selling. The Book Sense Book of the Year award was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000.

National Book Critics Circle Awards Shortlist for 2003, followed below by the winners, announced on February 26.

Fiction

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Nowhere Man by Aleksander Hemon

Roscoe by William Kennedy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories by Edith Templeton


General Nonfiction

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez

Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood


Biography/Autobiography

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II by Janet Browne

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music by Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg

Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan


Poetry

Leaving Saturn by Major Jackson

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B. H. Fairchild

Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds

Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski


Criticism

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball

Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn

Tests of Time by William H. Gass

Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen


Winners, The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2003

Fiction: Atonement by Ian McEwan

General Nonfiction: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Biography/Autobiography: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II by Janet Browne

Poetry: Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B. H. Fairchild

Criticism: Tests of Time by William H. Gass


Founded in 1974, the National Book Critics Circle consists of more than 700 book reviewers. Since 1981, the NBCC's centerpiece has been annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography - autobiography, poetry, and criticism.

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003

http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/News.htm

http://www.literature-awards.com/


A shortlist of 8 books for the 8th Annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003, the world's largest literary prize (€100,000) for a single work of fiction was announced in Dublin today, on RTE Radio 1 by The Lord Mayor of Dublin Councilor Dermot Lacey. The 8 titles were selected from a longlist of 125 nominated by 150 libraries from 40 countries.

Longlist of all 125 titles:
http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2003/longlist.htm

The shortlisted titles are:

The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock (Canada)

Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor (South Africa)

The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist Translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally (Sweden)

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (America) 2002 PEN/Faulkner nominee; 2001 National Book Award winner; Whiting Writers Award winner

The Migrant Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge (also published as The Painter of Birds) (Portugal) Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern (Ireland)

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Translated from the Turkish by Erdag Göknar (Turkey)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (America) Orange Prize 2002; PEN/Faulkner 2002


The Winner will be announced on May 19th, 2003 in Dublin Castle

The members of the international panel of judges for the 2003 Award are:

MORGAN LLYWELYN, award- winning novelist, well known for her historical novels about Ireland and the Celtic peoples. American of Irish descent, she now lives in Ireland.

DEIRDRE MADDEN, novelist from Northern Ireland. One By One in the Darkness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1997. Her latest novel, Authenticity, was published in August 2002.

AMRITJIT SINGH, writer, editor, translator and academic. Author and co-editor of more than a dozen books, he is currently Professor of English at Rhode Island College, U.S.A.

ILAN STAVANS, Mexican writer and academic. He is currently Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, U.S.A. On Borrowed Words, his memoir, was published in 2001. His work has been translated into half-a-dozen languages.

ALLEN WEINSTEIN, non-voting chairman of the judging panel. He is a distinguished historian and President and CEO of the Center for Democracy in Washington D.C.