Prizes

• Not rubbish models shortlisted

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  Thursday, 25th June 2009

  The shortlist for the Animals Are Not Rubbish model-making competition has been decided, and is on the website .
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• Children's poetry shortlist

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  Thursday, 25th June 2009

  The shortlist for the 2009 CLPE Poetry Award has been announced, and includes titles by John Agard and Allan Ahlberg.
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• Burns, Oystercatcher win pamphlet awards

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  Thursday, 25th June 2009

  The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets has gone to Elizabeth Burns for The Shortest Days (Galdragon Press). The publisher award went to Oystercatcher Press.
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• Dowd wins CILIP Carnegie Medal, Rayner wins Greenaway

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  Thursday, 25th June 2009

  Siobhan Dowd (above), who died of breast cancer two years ago, has been awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for her fourth and final novel, Bog Child (David Fickling)...
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• Lifetime achievement honour for Weinberg

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  Tuesday, 23rd June 2009

  Gerhard L Weinberg has been honoured with the the 2009 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing .
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• Sapkowski wins Gemmell award

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  Tuesday, 23rd June 2009

  The first annual David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy has gone to Andrzej Sapkowski for his novel Blood of Elves (Gollancz).
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• Kelman triumphs with Scottish Book of the Year

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  Sunday, 21st June 2009

  If James Kelman was disappointed not to have won the Man Booker International Prize, he must, as a true Scot, have felt somewhat vindicated to have carried off the...
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• SoA authors share £60,000

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  Friday, 19th June 2009

  Winning authors received a total of £60,500 at the Authors' Awards 2009, hosted by the Society of Authors at the Cavalry and Guards Club last night (18 June). Margaret...
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• Boyne novel wins Readers' Group award

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  Thursday, 18th June 2009

  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , (Black Swan) by John Boyne has been voted the Penguin Orange Readers Group Book of the Year. Votes were collected via the Spinebreakers...
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• Rooney wins Kim Scott Walwyn Prize

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  Wednesday, 17th June 2009

  Kathy Rooney, Managing Director of Bloomsbury Information, has been awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which honours outstanding achievements by women in publishing. She...
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