Awards

The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016

The winners of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on March 16, 2017 at the New School in New York.

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Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards 2016

Barnes & Noble has announced the winners for the 2016 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category received a $30,000 prize and a full year of promotion from B&N. Runner-up authors got $15,000, and third place $7,500.

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The National Book Awards 2016

Winners of the 2016 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature were announced at the 67th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 16, 2016.

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The 2016 Kirkus Prize

At a special ceremony in the penthouse of the Four Seasons Residences in Austin, Texas, Kirkus Reviews, the nation’s leading journal of prepublication book reviews, announced the winners of the third annual Kirkus Prize in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.

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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016

THE SELLOUT by Paul Beatty has been awarded the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 54-year-old New York resident, born in Los Angeles, is the first American author to win the prize in its 48-year history. US authors became eligible in 2014. THE SELLOUT is a searing satire on race relations in contemporary America. It is described by The New York Times as a "metaphorical multicultural pot almost too hot to touch," while the Wall Street Journal called it a "Swiftian satire of the highest order. Like someone shouting fire in a crowded theatre, Mr. Beatty has whispered 'Racism' in a postracial world."

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Anthony Awards 2016

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, is pleased to announce the Anthony Award winners for 2016. The Anthony Awards are presented at each annual Bouchercon with the winners selected by attendees. The award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), writer and critic from the New York Times, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America.

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Macavity Awards 2016

The Macavity Award winners were announced at the Bouchercon 2016 Opening Ceremonies on September 15, 2016.

The Macavity Awards are nominated on and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends and supporters of MRI.

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Barry Awards 2016

The winners of the Barry Award, presented by Deadly Pleasures magazine, were announced at the Bouchercon 2016 Opening Ceremonies on September 15, 2016.

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International Thriller Writers Awards 2016

On July 9, 2016, during ThrillerFest XI, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the winners of the 2016 Thriller Awards at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.

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The Man Booker International Prize 2016

THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang has been awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Han is a South Korean author who currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Already very successful in South Korea, she has been awarded the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. THE VEGETARIAN is her first novel to be translated into English.

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