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Literary Awards: Finalists Announced for National Book Critics Circle Award

Literary Awards: Finalists Announced for National Book Critics Circle Award | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists were announced today in New York. We'll take a look at their press release for a little background to the awards
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Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The British author’s best sellers include “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go.”
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Eimear McBride wins James Tait Black prize for The Lesser Bohemians

Eimear McBride wins James Tait Black prize for The Lesser Bohemians | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The Irish novelist’s ‘astonishing’ novel about the sexual awakening of a teenager with an older actor lands the UK’s oldest literary award
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Jhumpa Lahiri to Receive 2017 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story

Jhumpa Lahiri to Receive 2017 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Jhumpa Lahiri has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Named in honor of Bernard Malamud, the $5,000 prize “recognizes a body of work that…
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez wins the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 'The Sound of Things Falling'

Juan Gabriel Vásquez wins the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 'The Sound of Things Falling' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

The Sound of Things Falling by Colombian author, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from the Spanish by Canadian Anne McLean, is the winner of the 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. 

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Literary Awards: TS Eliot prize goes to Ocean Vuong's 'compellingly assured' debut collection

Literary Awards: TS Eliot prize goes to Ocean Vuong's 'compellingly assured' debut collection | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Night Sky With Exit Wounds, the debut collection by a poet who is the first literate person in his family, hailed as ‘the definitive arrival of a significant voice’
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Essay: 'My fellow authors are too busy chasing prizes to write about what matters' by novelist Amit Chaudhuri

Essay: 'My fellow authors are too busy chasing prizes to write about what matters' by novelist Amit Chaudhuri | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
What we read is now defined by the market, writes the novelist, poet and critic Amit Chaudhuri
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Literary Awards: Colson Whitehead wins Arthur C Clarke award for 'The Underground Railroad' - A fantastic reimagining of US slavery takes the UK’s pre-eminent science fiction prize

Literary Awards: Colson Whitehead wins Arthur C Clarke award for 'The Underground Railroad' - A fantastic reimagining of US slavery takes the UK’s pre-eminent science fiction prize | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Costa book awards deliver for baby boomer winners

Costa book awards deliver for baby boomer winners | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Alice Oswald and first novelist Francis Spufford all take £5,000 category prizes and go into contention for overall award
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