Awards & Prizes

O’Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Prize for Military Writing – NYTimes.com Tim O’Brien, the author of “The Things They Carried” and “In the Lake of the Woods,” among other works, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.  

The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards June 15 in New Orleans. The winners were: via Bram Stoker Winners Announced.

A.M. Homes wins Women’s Prize. A.M. Homes’s novel May We Be Forgiven won the award, which featured an array of top-notch nominees. But the controversy over whether a prize for fiction written by women should exist at all continues. Read that story here, too.

Last night the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. And Publishers Weekly has the list of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association 2013 Christian Book Award winners.

Story Circle Network: 2012 Sarton Memoir Award Announced. (Austin, TX. March 22, 2013)—The Story Circle Network (SCN) is pleased to announce that Monica Wood has been granted the Sarton Women’s Memoir Award for her book When We Were the Kennedys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). The book tells the story of Wood’s mill town childhood in

Hilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women’s fiction prize | Books | The Guardian Among the contenders for the leading prize for fiction written by women is a bestselling thriller and a how-to-live-your-life memoir so divisive it had some reviewers wanting to throw it across the room. Also in the running are novels

The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle | Books | guardian.co.uk. Here’s something to help us keep all those literary prizes straight.

Ben Fountain Wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction – GalleyCat The winners of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been revealed. Ben Fountain won the fiction prize with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Andrew Solomon took nonfiction with Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. Leanne

Mantel Wins Costa Award Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies has won another major literary award, taking home the Costa Book Award and its £30,000 prize. Late last year, the novel won the Booker Prize (as did the previous book in her series, Wolf Hall), making Bring Up the Bodies the only book to win

Applegate, Klassen, Lake Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Katherine Applegate has won the 2013 Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan (Harper), a novel narrated by a silverback gorilla that lives in an ill-run roadside attraction with other performing animals; the book was edited by Anne Hoppe. Jon Klassen has won the 2013 Randolph Caldecott