Take a look below for updates on some of the literary world's highest accolades!
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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!
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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!
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The 2020 National Book Critics Circle |
The National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists were announced on January 24th, 2021. Supporting Book Criticism and Literary Culture since 1974, the National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. The winners of the awards for books published in 2020 will be announced March 25th, 2021. Congratulations to these nominees!
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| Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong |
This is Major by Shayla Lawson |
Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer |
The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayetu Moore |
Home Baked by Alia Volz |
Biography |
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| Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley |
The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter |
Red Comet by Heather Clark |
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne, Tamara Payne |
The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty |
Criticism |
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| Marking Time by Nicole R. Fleetwood |
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell |
Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza |
Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick |
Crap by Wendy A. Woloson |
Fiction |
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| Inside Story by Martin Amis |
If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan |
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell |
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa |
Memorial by Bryan Washington |
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| The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson |
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro |
She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh |
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson |
Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner |
Poetry |
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| Obit by Victoria Chang |
Here is the Sweet Hand by Francine J. Harris |
Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson |
The Shore by Chris Nealon |
Homie by Danez Smith |
The John Leonard Prize for Best First Book is named for the longtime critic and NBCC co-founder John Leonard, the Leonard Prize is awarded for the best first book in any genre.
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| Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault |
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
Luster by Raven Leilani |
A Burning by Megha Majumdar |
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart |
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| Real Life by Brandon Taylor |
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang |
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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!
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The 2020 National Book Awards |
The winners of the National Book Awards were announced on November 18th, 2020!
The National Book Foundation was founded in 1989 to administer the National Book Awards, which has been one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the country since 1950. The Foundation also produces numerous educational and public programs that help connect readers to books in new and meaningful ways. Congratulations to all the winners!
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Young People's Literature |
 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu |
 The Dead Are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne, Tamara Payne |
 DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi |
 Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri |
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The Booker Prize 2020 |
The winner of the Booker Prize 2020 was announced on November 19th, 2020.
"The leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. Awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland."
Congratulations to Douglas Stuart and Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize!
Take a look at this year's finalists below.
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| The New Wilderness by Diane Cook |
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga |
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi |
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste |
Real Life by Brandon Taylor |
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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!
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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.
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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 |
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2020 Women's Prize for Fiction |
The 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction was announced on September 9, 2020.
This year's winner is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell!
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.
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2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners |
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 4th, 2020.
The Pulitzer Prize administration awards prizes across 21 categories in journalism, and the arts each year. Click here for the full list of winners.
Congratulations to Colson Whitehead and The Nickel Boys, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!
Here are the other 2020 winners in Letters & Drama:
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| Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel |
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser |
The Tradition by Jericho Brown |
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin |
The Undying by Anne Boyer |
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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 |
2020 Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards were announced on May 30th, 2020.
The 2020 Nebula Award Winners were announced on May 30. They 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.
Congratulations to this year's winners: Sarah Pinsker and A Song for a New Day for Best Novel, and Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone and This is How You Lose the Time War for Best Novella!
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| A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker |
This Is How You Lose the Timie War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone |
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!
Lambda Literary Awards
The 32nd annual Lambda Literay Award winners will be announced on June 8th, 2020.
To see the Current Finalists in all 24 categories, click here!
The 31st annual Lambda Literay Award winners were announced on June 3rd, 2019.
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. Here are the latest winners:
Lesbian Fiction The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai |
Gay Fiction Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead |
Bisexual Fiction Disoriental by Négar Djavadi |
Transgender Fiction Little Fish by Casey Plett |
Bisexual Nonfiction The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai |
Transgender Nonfiction Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson |
LGBTQ Nonfiction Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry |
Lesbian Poetry Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House by Nina Puro |
Gay Poetry Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed |
Bisexual Poetry We Play a Game by Duy Doan |
Transgender Poetry Lo Terciario by Raquel Salas Rivera |
Lesbian Mystery A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell |
Gay Mystery Late Fees: A Pinx Video Mystery by Marshall Thornton |
Lesbian Biography/Memoir Chronology by Zahra Patterson |
Gay Biography/Memoir No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore |
Lesbian Romance Beowulf for Cretins by Ann McMan |
Gay Romance Crashing Upwards by S.C. Wynne |
LGBTQ Children's/ Young Adult  Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender |
LGBTQ Graphic Novel The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish |
LGBTQ SciFi/Fantasy/Horror The Breath of the Sun by Isaac R. Fellman |
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!
