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Edgar Award Winners & Nominess

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BEST NOVEL
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)
BEST FACT CRIME
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted
the Last Days of Old China by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)
BEST SHORT STORY
“The Unremarkable Heart” – Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
by Karin Slaughter (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)
1BEST JUVENILE
The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Abrams – Amulet Books)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Publishing Worldwide – Hyperion)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“A Scandal in Belgravia” – Sherlock, Teleplay by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
“When They Are Done With Us” – Staten Island Noir
by Patricia Smith (Akashic Books)
GRAND MASTER
Ken Follett
Margaret Maron
RAVEN AWARDS
Oline Cogdill
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego & Redondo Beach, CA
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Akashic Books
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, May 1, 2013)
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)

Full lists of the nominees are on ther weblink:

http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html

Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2013, The Shortlist

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The Authors’ Club have announced the shortlist for their Best First Novel Award:

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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2013. The six books were selected by a panel of Club members after intense and wide-ranging debate.

“The more unanimity in a longlist,” commented the chair of judges, literary critic Suzi Feay, “the fiercer the fighting will be with the shortlist – over titles which we had already agreed are wonderful books…  It’s less trouble electing a new Pope.”

The shortlisted titles are:

  • The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber (Sceptre)
  • Absolution by Patrick Flanery (Atlantic)
  • Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson (Chatto)
  • Mountains of the Moon by I J Kay (Cape)
  • Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard (Hutchinson)
  • The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd (Simon & Schuster)

The six books were chosen, after intense and wide-ranging debate, from an exceptionally strong longlist, which included such outstanding contenders as The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott, Alys, Always by Harriet Lane, The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan, A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson and Ramshackle by Elizabeth Reeder.

There will be a reading from the shortlisted novels by their authors at Foyle’s bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB, on Wednesday 15 May.

The winner will be announced and the £2500 prize presented at a reception at the National Liberal Club on Monday 3 June by this year’s guest adjudicator, the acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers.

Longlisted titles that failed to make the cut:

Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott (Cape)
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan (William Heinemann)
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson (Bloomsbury)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)
Alys, Always by Harriet Lane (Weidenfeld)
Ramshackle by Elizabeth Reeder (Freight Books)

via Best First Novel Award | Authors’ Club.

Branford Boase Shortlist

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The shortlist for the Branford Boase Award 2013 was announced yesterday. The Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut novel for children. Uniquely, it also honours the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of the editor in nurturing new talent.

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For the second year running, over 60 books were submitted for the award, an indication of the wealth of talent amongst new authors for children, and of UK publishers’ enthusiasm to nurture and promote them. The shortlist is particularly varied and includes outstanding novels for young readers, historical romances, a ghost story, a challenging dystopian thriller and a time-travel adventure set in 16th century London, the last by a writing duo. The seven shortlisted books are:

  • After the Snow by S D Crockett, edited by Emma Young (Macmillan)
  • The Things We Did for Love by Natasha Farrant, edited by Julia Heydon-Wells (Faber)
  • Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan, edited by Mara Bergman (Walker)
  • A Hen in the Wardrobe by Wendy Meddour, edited by Janetta Otter-Barry (Frances Lincoln)
  • Black Arts by Andrew Prentice & Jonathan Weil, edited by Simon Mason (David Fickling)
  • A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton, edited by David Fickling (David Fickling)
  • A World Between Us by Lydia Syson, edited by Sarah Odedina (Hot Key)

This year the judges are Joy Court, Learning Resources Manager for Coventry City Council; Prue Goodwin, consultant and lecturer in children’s literature; Julie Randles, former Managing Director of Scholastic Book Clubs; and Annabel Pitcher, author of My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, winner of last year’s Branford Boase Award. The panel is chaired by Julia Eccleshare, children’s books editor of The Guardian.

Julia Eccleshare says: ‘This year’s longlist was exceptionally strong and the shortlisted books are extremely accomplished. Here are eight really interesting authors, doing really interesting things in their writing.’

The winner of the 2013 Branford Boase Award will be announced on Thursday 11th July at a ceremony in London. The winning author receives a cheque for £1,000 and both author and editor receive a unique, hand-crafted silver-inlaid box in the shape of a book.

Book award renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy

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Major New Zealand book award being renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy:

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One of New Zealand’s best loved authors has had the country’s top award for children’s books renamed in her memory.

The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards has announced that the top prize in the competition will be now be known as the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.

Mahy was a previous finalist and winner of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards and is a finalist in this year’s picture book category for her book Mister Whistler.

via Book award renamed in honour of Margaret Mahy – Entertainment News | TVNZ.

2013 Picture Book Awards Winners

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2013 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards – Winners announced

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Established in 1995, these awards are presented annually by the English Association to the best picture books of the previous year, in four categories:  Fiction 4-7 and 7-11 yrs, and Non-Fiction 4-7 and 7-11 yrs. The winning books are chosen by the editorial board of English 4-11 from a shortlist of 12-18 books selected by a panel of teachers, with input from children. The prizes are awarded at the English Association’s Annual General Meeting each May, and the winning and shortlisted books are featured in a full-colour poster in the summer issue of the journal.  This poster is also circulated to libraries, children’s bookshops and other interested parties. English 4-11 is the only journal dedicated to English in the primary classroom.  It is a joint publication of the English Association www.le.ac.uk/engassoc  and the United Kingdom Literacy Association www.ukla.org

The Awards will be presented to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers at the English Association’s AGM on Wednesday 15 May at the British Academy in London.

This year’s Winners are:

4-7 yrs Fiction

Hippospotamus by Jeanne Willis, illus. by Tony Ross, Andersen Press

7-11 yrs Fiction

Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo, illus. by Olivia Lomenech Gill, Templar Publishing

4-7 yrs Non-Fiction

A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, illus. by Mark Hearld Walker Books

7-11 yrs Non-Fiction

How We Make Stuff by Christiane Dorion, illus. by Beverley Young Templar Publishing

Shortlisted:

  • The Chronicles of Harris Burdick  Chris Van Allsburg,  Andersen Press
  • Rabbityness  Jo Empson, , Child’s Play (International) Ltd
  • Who’s For Dinner  Claire Freedman, illustrated by Nick East,  Little Tiger Press
  • Katie and the Starry Night  James Mayhew,  Orchard
  • Mr Leon’s Paris  Barroux, translated by Sarah Ardizzone , Phoenix Yard Books
  • House of Horrors  Nick Arnold, illustrated by Tony De Saulles,  Scholastic Children’s Books
  • In The Forest  Sophie Strady, illustrated by Anouk Boisrobert & Louis Rigaud,  Tate Publishing
  • Jack and the Baked Beanstalk  Colin Stimpson,  Templar Publishing
  • One Gorilla  Anthony Browne,  Walker Books
  • Demolition  Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock,  Walker Books
  • The Fact or Fiction Behind Urban Myths  Paul Mason,  Wayland