A number of book awards have been given out recently.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced in April. Marilynne Robinson's Home won the fiction award and Zoë Ferraris's Finding Nouf won the first fiction award.
Ursula K. LeGuin won the Nebula Award for her novel Powers.
Cormac McCarthy won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature. This is the second year the PEN American center has given the $25,000 award, which recognizes excellence, ambition and scale of achievement over a sustained career.
Carol Ann Duffy was recently named the new poet laureate in England. Over its 340 year history, Duffy is the first woman to be given the honor.
The James Beard Foundation recently announced its 2009 book awards. The cookbook of the year went to Jennifer McLagan for Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes. Martha Hall Foose won in the American Cooking category for Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook.
Ian R. MacLeod won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction for his novel Song of Time.
The Mystery Writers of America presented the 2009 Edgar Award to C. J. Box for his novel Blue Heaven.
Louise Penny's The Cruelest Month won the Agatha Award for best novel.
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