Monday, March 9, 2009

And the Winner is...

The Pen/Faulkner Award was recently awarded to Joseph O'Neill for Netherland.

The first Warwick Prize for writing was given to Naomi Klein for Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The new prize will be given for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form. The theme for the first prize was complexity.

The Lincoln Prize, awarded by Gettysburg College for scholarship on President Lincoln, was awarded to two books: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson, and Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds.

Barnes and Noble has announced the winners of their 2008 Discover Awards for new writers. The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips won for fiction. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff won for nonfiction.

The Langum Charitable Trust Prize for best American Historical Fiction went to Kathleen Kent for The Heretic's Daughter.

The Romantic Novelists' Association named East of the Sun by Julia Gregson as the 2009 Romantic Novel of the Year.

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