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Mark Haddon has won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award...
Awards: January 2004 Archives
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Haddon wins South Bank Show prize
Novelist Mark Haddon has won the best book prize at the South Bank Show awards given by the ITV1 arts series.
Boston.com / A&E / Books / Mordicai Gerstein's tightrope act
Excellent Boston Globe profile of Mordicai Gerstein...
The judges for this year's Branford Boase first novel award, announced in the summer, will be:
Julia Eccleshare - Chair
Lesley Agnew
Kevin Brooks (last year's winner)
Michael Thorn
Sarah Wilkie
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Rowling up for adult book prize
"JK Rowling's latest Harry Potter book is up against some of the year's most acclaimed adult novels in a vote to find the best work of fiction of 2003."
The full Fiction Shortlist comprises:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Dancer - Colum McCann
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
Nobody True - James Herbert
A Question of Blood - Ian Rankin
ALA | American Library Association Announces Award Winners
Newbery Winner
Caldecott Winner
Kate DiCamillo, author of The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, and Mordicai Gerstein, illustrator and author of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, are the 2004 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals.
The ALA page, linked above, also details the other award winners, which include a double for Angela Johnson's The First Part Last:
Coretta Scott King Awards
Angela Johnson, author of The First Part Last and Ashley Bryan, illustrator and author of Beautiful Blackbird
Michael L. Printz Award
Angela Johnson Printz Award for her moving novel The First Part Last
Robert F. Sibert Award
Jim Murphy, author of An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, was named the winner of the 2004 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children published in 2003.
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Ursula K. LeGuin is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her lifetime contribution to young adult readers.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Story of autistic boy's life wins over judges
The Guardian, in its report of the Whitbread category winners, sees the Book of the Year selection as being a contest between Mark Haddon and David Almond. [You can have your vote on ACHUKACHAT]
"The book of the year award, to be made on January 27, is seen as largely a contest between Haddon and Almond. This is partly because of the acknowledged quality of the two books."
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Whitbread win for Booker victor
"The children's book award this year has been won by David Almond for The Fire-Eaters, a tale set in Newcastle at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis... ..."
