Awards

The 2023 Booker Prize

The 2023 Booker Prize has been awarded to Paul Lynch for his fifth novel, PROPHET SONG, an exhilarating and propulsive portrait of a nation sliding into tyranny --- and one woman's attempts to hold her family together. Heralded in one review as "a crucial book for our current times," it captures some of the biggest social and political anxieties of our age, from the rise of political extremism to the global plight of refugees. Lynch is the fifth Irish writer to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright. Click here to read more about Lynch and PROPHET SONG.

The National Book Awards 2023

The winners of the 2023 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 15th at the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony.

Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. Paul Yamazaki, a bookseller at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers since 1970, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Rita Dove, who received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection of poetry, THOMAS AND BEULAH, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

The 2023 Kirkus Prize

The winners of the 2023 Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature were announced on October 11th in a hybrid ceremony at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York that also was live-streamed on YouTube. This year’s winners were chosen from the 10,794 titles --- published between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023 (for Fiction and Nonfiction), and October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023 (for Young Readers’ Literature) --- that were reviewed by Kirkus.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognized for his prose.

2023 Thriller Awards

On June 4th, during ThrillerFest XVIII, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the winners of the 2023 Thriller Awards at the Sheraton Times Square in New York City.

The 2023 International Booker Prize

The winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize is TIME SHELTER by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel. This is the first novel originally published in Bulgarian to win the prize. In the book, a "clinic for the past" offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But soon the past begins to invade the present.

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