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Book Award News
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Costa Book Award Winners 2011
The category winners for the 2011 Costa Book Awards have just been announced and include plenty of surprises, such as Andrew Miller beating booker-prize winner Julian Barnes and three debut authors receiving awards.
Novel Award: Pure by Andrew Miller
First Novel Award: Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
Biography Award: Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
Poetry Award: The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
Children’s Award: Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Each winner receives stg£5,000 and a chance of the stg£30,000 overall Costa Book of the Year prize which will be announced on the 24th January.
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011
Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace was named as the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011. The public were asked to vote for their favourite title from the list of 10 category winners of the Irish Book Awards announced in November. Widely-praised by reviewers and heavily endorsed by many of Ireland’s established novelists including Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann, Solace has been described as “a fine example of the modern Irish novel encompassing the breadth of a country and acknowledging an entire generation. In it we feel a young writer carefully negotiating her relationship to her native Ireland and to its literary traditions.”
Galaxy Book of the Year 2011
In a similar award ceremony over in the UK, How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran has won the Galaxy Book of the Year 2011. She was selected by public vote from the winners of all eleven categories from the Galaxy National Book Awards. The same book also won The John Murray Show Listener’s Choice Award in the Irish Book Awards.
William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year Winner 2011
Engage – The Fall & Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage has won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2011. Irish sports writer Kimmage is the first to win both the Irish and International award, which he won for A Rough Ride in 1990. The book focuses on the life of former English rugby international Matt Hampson who was paralysed from the neck down after a scrum collapsed during an England U-21 training session in 2005, the worst injury ever incurred by an English international rugby player.
TV Book Club
The TV Book Club returns once again to our screens on Sunday 29th January. The ten-part series sees a celebrity panel critiquing a new title each week. For the first time, viewers are invited to interact with the show, reading along with them and sending in their own reviews. The series launches with Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson, the phenomenal 2011 bestseller which is included in the Dubray Books Recommended Reads this month. Books in the TV series include books by Jojo Moyes and Essie Fox. See the full list on their website and sign up for news on the authors and books involved.
Guardian First Book Award 2011
The Guardian First Book Award for 2011 has been awarded to an oncologist for his ‘biography’ of cancer. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee was the only non-fiction book on the shortlist and has been described by the author as a mix of history, memoir and biography, of science and the personal stories of cancer patients. He received a prize of stg£10,000.
The Ark Spring Programme
The Ark Cultural Centre for Children in Dublin have launched their spring programme of events which takes a distinctly musical slant. They will also have plenty of free events over the weekend of their Tradfest festival. Please see online here for the full listing.
