2011 Giller Prize Winner: Half-Blood Blues

Half-Blood Blues
Congratulations to Esi Edugyan! Her novel Half-Blood Blues, about black jazz musicians in Nazi Germany, has won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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2011 World Fantasy Awards

Who Fears Death Discover the winners of the 2011 World Fantasy Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field. Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death takes the award for Best Novel. See more award winners

Book Awards

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists

The Marriage Plot
Stone Arabia
Pulphead
National Book Critics Circle Award finalists were announced on January 21. Judges selected finalists in the following six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Criticism, Autobiography, and Biography.
Among the finalists: Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Marriage Plot and Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Winners will be announced March 8.

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2012 Newbery and Caldecott Winners

Dead End in Norvelt
A Ball for Daisy
The American Library Association announced its 2012 children's book awards, including the biggest children's prizes of the year, the Newbery Medal for literature and the Caldecott Medal for illustration. This year's winners:

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2011 Pulitzer Prizes

A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Emperor of All Maladies
Washington: A Life
The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on April 18. This year's winners included Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer:

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2011 Man Booker Prize Winner: Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes was awarded the Man Booker Prize on October 18 for his novel, The Sense of an Ending. Three of Barnes' previous books had been nominated for the award. Judges said The Sense of an Ending "has the markings of a classic of English Literature. It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading." The Man Booker is awarded annually to a novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. Barnes will receive £50,000 and each of the six shortlisted authors will receive £2,500. Past winners include: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (2010), Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009), The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008), and The Gathering by Anne Enright (2007). Also named to this year's shortlist:

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2011 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Sweden's Tomas Tranströmer

The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Transtromer: Selected Poems, 1954-1986
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Stockholm-born poet has written more than fifteen collections that have been translated into English and sixty other languages. He is the eighth European to win the world's premier literary award in the last 10 years. Previous winners include Mario Vargas Llosa and José Saramago.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women for their work in promoting peace, democracy and gender equality, including Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, author of Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War.

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