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Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009
Canada: Scotiabank Giller Prize
Linden MacIntyre was named the 2009 winner for his novel The Bishop’s Man, published by Random House Canada. Read here: Canada's Premier Prize for Fiction Names a Winner.
Watch the awards here.
France: Prix Goncort
The winner in 2009 is Marie NDiaye for her novel Trois femmes puissantes (Three Powerful Women), published by Gallimard. Coverage on the New York Times website.
Australia: 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Fiction Winner: Nam Le for The Boat, Penguin Australia
Non-Fiction joint winners: House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers (Giramondo) & Drawing the Global Colour Line by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (Melbourne University Publishing)
Read more here.
Ireland: IMPAC Dublin Award Longlist
Congratulations to AWRF Trustee Stephanie Johnson whose book Swimmer’s Rope is on the long-list for the IMPAC prize, along with Emily Perkins’ Novel About My Wife, Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal, Linda Olsson’s Sonata for Miriam and Kate de Goldi’s The 10pm Question. View the full long-list on the website.
UK: The Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Congrats to AWRF 07 guest Philip Ardagh – if there’s a prize to win, this is it!
Coverage in the Guardian here.
The Netherlands: AKO Literature Prize
Erwin Mortier wins with his novel Godenslaap (Divine Sleep).
Read a bio of Mortier here.
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