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| The Burnt Ones: Service Indefinitely Suspended |
| 2007-09-16 06:47:43 |
Due to the lack of time that I have to properly run this website, I have decided to stop actively working on it. The Burnt Ones, therefore, effectively closes its doors.
I am currently at a point in life where I don’t have the amount of time and energy for my hobby projects as I used [...]...
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| McCarthy wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction |
| 2007-08-29 14:51:09 |
The American Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy has been awarded the 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for his novel The Road.
The annual £10,000 James Tait Black Prize is the oldest literary prize in the UK, and among the most prestigious awards given for literature written in the English Language.
The Roadby Cormac [...]...
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| World Fantasy Award nominations |
| 2007-08-14 02:56:02 |
Nominees for the 2007 World Fantasy Award have been announced. A full list of nominees can be found at the World Fantasy Award website....
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| Booker longlist announced |
| 2007-08-07 23:48:02 |
Longlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize has been revealed. From the 13 authors on the list, only one (Ian McEwan) has been nominated for the award before. Furthermore, four first-time novelists have also made the list.
This year’s longlist is:
Nicola Barker: Darkmans
Edward Docx: Self Help
Tan Twan Eng: The Gift Of Rain
Anne Enright: The Gathering
Mohsin Hamid: [...]...
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| Wallace Stevens Award announced |
| 2007-08-07 23:32:03 |
The American Academy of Poets has selected Charles Simic as the recipient of the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award. The $100,000 poetry prize has been awarded since 1994, and recognizes “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry” in the English language.
The Yugoslavian-born Simic’s poetry first appeared in publication after his family’s move to the [...]...
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| Montana NZ winners announced |
| 2007-08-02 04:19:51 |
Winners of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The awards, given annually to the best writing in New Zealand, were this year dominated by Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip, which won the Medal (main prize), and was selected as the fiction winner by both the panel as well as the readers. [...]...
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| Frank O’Connor shortlist announced |
| 2007-07-31 05:46:46 |
Shortlist for the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize has been announced. The world’s richest short story award, now awarded for the third time, is funded by the Cork City Council, and awarded annually in association with the Irish Times.
This year’s shortlist consists of six authors from five countries, with only three of the [...]...
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| ReLit winners announced |
| 2007-07-22 01:26:47 |
The 2007 ReLit Awards winners have been announced. Founded in 2000 as an alternative to the major literary prizes, ReLit awards the best new fiction, short fiction and poetry published by independent Canadian publishers.
This year’s winners are:
NOVEL: Bow Gripby Ivan E. Coyote
Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America’s most beguiling storytellers and the author [...]...
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| The 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced |
| 2007-07-22 01:13:23 |
The longlist for the first ever Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced. The new prize was established to recognize and promote new Asian literature. $10,000 (US) is given to the best new Asian novel “unpublished in English”, and $3,000 to its translator, if eligible.
This year’s longlist is:
Tulsi Badrinath, The Living God
Sanjay Bahadur, The Sound [...]...
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| Kesako Matsui awarded the Naoki Prize |
| 2007-07-17 23:44:22 |
Kesako Matsui has won the Naoki Prize, which is a one million yen prize recognizing the best Japanese popular literature by a young author. Like the Akutagawa Award, also the Naoki Prize was established in 1935, and is awarded twice a year....
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| Tetsushi Suwa wins Akutagawa Prize |
| 2007-07-17 17:32:43 |
Tetsushi Suwa has won the Akutagawa Prize for his first novel Asatte no hito (”The person of the day after tomorrow”). The semiannual literary prize is one of Japan’s most prestigious book awards, and was established in 1935 in memory of Ryunosuke Akutagawa to celebrate new and rising talent.
Earlier this year Nanae Aoyama won the [...]...
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| Forward Poetry Prize shortlist unveiled |
| 2007-07-17 07:43:22 |
Shortlist for the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize has been announced. The literary prize, created in 1991 to promote contemporary poetry, is Britain’s richest and arguably most sought-after poetry prize.
This year, which the chairman of the Forward Arts Foundation described as “exciting … with new poets being shortlisted alongside some of the most respected of their [...]...
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| Arac de Nyeko wins Caine Prize |
| 2007-07-12 22:08:56 |
The Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko has been awarded the 2007 Caine Prize for her story “Jambula Tree”. The Caine Prize, awarded annually, was founded in 2000 to an African short story published in the English language. It is sometimes referred to as the “African Booker Prize”.
The winning work, a story about a lesbian [...]...
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| Alexis Wright wins 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award |
| 2007-07-07 09:46:01 |
Alexis Wright has won the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Carpentaria. The award, which celebrated its 50th year, was established by the Australian author Miles Franklin to annually award the best ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’.
Carpentariaby Alexis Wright
Carpentaria is Alexis Wright’s second novel, an epic [...]...
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| Chinua Achebe wins Man Booker International |
| 2007-06-15 12:11:49 |
The Nigerian novelist, poet and literary critic Chinua Achebe has won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize. The £60,000 prize is awarded once every two years to a living author, whose body of work “has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage”. This is the second time the award has been handed [...]...
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| 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize winners announced |
| 2007-06-11 14:52:28 |
Winners of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize have been announced. The International Award goes to Charles Wright for his Scar Tissue, while the Canadian Winner is Don McKay for Strike/Slip.
The C$100,000 poetry prize has been awarded annually since 2000, and aims to “serve and encourage excellence in poetry written in or translated into English anywhere [...]...
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