Take a look below for updates on some of the literary world's highest accolades!
2022 Lammy Award Winners |
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On June 11, 2022, the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners were announced. For over 30 years, "the Lammys" have identified and honored the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books. The Lammys bring together nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. Click here for more info about the Lammys! Congratulations to this year's winners! |
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Lesbian Fiction | Gay Fiction | LGBTQ Young Adult | LGBTQ Graphic Novel | LGBTQ Nonfiction |
Transgender Fiction | Gay Memoir | Gay Romance | LGBTQ Anthology/ Nonfiction |
Gay Poetry |
2022 Women's Prize for Fiction |
Congratulations to Ruth Ozeki and The Book of Form and Emptiness, winner of the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction!
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring women’s fiction. Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate originality, accessibility & excellence in writing by women and to connect world-class writers with readers everywhere.
2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |
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The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 9th, 2022. The Pulitzer Prize administration awards prizes across 21 categories in journalism, and the arts each year. Click here for the full list of winners. | ||||
A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot. Congratulations to Joshua Cohen and The Netanyahus, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! |
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History | Biography | Poetry | General Nonfiction |
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The Booker Prize 2021 Winner & Longlist |
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. |
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A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam |
Second Place by Rachel Cusk |
The Promise by Damon Galgut |
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro |
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An Island by Karen Jennings |
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson |
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed |
Bewilderment by Richard Powers |
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China Room by Sunjeev Sahota |
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead |
Light Perpetual by Franics Spufford |
2020 Nebula Awards |
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The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award. | |
Best Novel |
Best Novella |
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Network Effect by Martha Wells |
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark |
The International Booker Prize 2021 |
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Awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The vital work of translators is celebrated, with the prize money divided equally between the author and translator. | ||||
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The Story Prize 2021 |
The Story Prize is an annual book award honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar year. The finalists for the 2021 award were Danielle Evans for The Office of Historical Corrections, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum for Likes, and Deesha Philyaw for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Deesha Philyaw for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies!
The 2021 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction |
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize that honors the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year. Three writers are chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to serve as judges for the prize, and these judges are asked to select five books as finalists for the award, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country.
The nominees for the 2021 awards were announced February 2nd, 2021, and the winner will be announced in April. Congratulations to these nominees!
The 2021 Newbery and Caldecott Medals |
The 2021 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature.
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. This year's winner is When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller!
The 2021 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. This year's winner is We Are Water Protectors illustrated by Michaela Goade and written by Carole Lindsrom!
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was announced on September 9, 2020.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Louise Glück
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel’s will one part was dedicated to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Read more about the prize here!
Heartland Booksellers Award 2020 |
Congratulations to the winners of the first annual Heartland Booksellers Award!
Brought to you by two regional independent bookseller assocations, all the books are selected directly by independent booksellers, and celebrate literature in the Great Lakes and Midwest, with content either about the region, or an author from the region. Celebrating these book awards as one industry force amplifies the impact of the award for booksellers, publishers, authors, and consumers, as 12 states and 300 bookstores throughout the Greater Midwest will celebrate the same set of exemplary titles.
Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Young Adult & Middle Grade | Picture Book |
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Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump |
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado |
Homie by Danez Smith |
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys |
A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang |
2020 Edgar Awards Winners |
The 2020 Edgar Awards were announced on April 20th, 2020.
Each spring Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television. Here are the latest winners for books published in 2019!
Best Mystery Novel of the Year! | Best Fact Crime |
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The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths |
The Less People Know about Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton |
Best Paperback Original | Best First Novel by an American Author |
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The Hotel Neversink by Adam O'Fallon Price |
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim |
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on April 17, 2020.
The 40th annual ceremony recognized outstanding literary works published in 2019. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are committed to litereary excellence, championing new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.
This year's winner for fiction is The Topeka School by Ben Lerner! Congratulations to all the winners, check them out below!
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction | Biography | Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose | Current Interest | Graphic Novel/Comics |
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The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell |
Our Man by George Packer |
Black is the Body by Emily Bernard |
Charged by Emily Bazelon |
The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis |
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They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers |
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha |
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky |
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Science & Technology | Young Adult Literature | The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction |
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Figuring by Maria Popova |
When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn |
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James |
The 2020 Newbery and Caldecott Medals
The 2020 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature.
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
This year's winner is New Kid by Jerry Craft!
The 2020 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
This year's winner is The Undefeated illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander!
2019 Tony Awards
The Tony Awards were announced on June 9, 2019.
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
This year's winner for Best Play is The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth!