Awards

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 was awarded to French author Patrick Modiano. Peter Englund, the Nobel Academy’s permanent secretary, says: “Patrick Modiano is a well-known name in France but not anywhere else. He writes children’s books, movie scripts but mainly novels. His themes are memory, identity and time. His best known work is called MISSING PERSON. It’s the story about a detective who has lost his memory and his final case is finding out who he really is: he is tracing his own steps through history to find out who he is.”

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The 2014 Kirkus Prize

At a special ceremony in the penthouse of the Four Seasons Residences in Austin, Kirkus Reviews, the nation’s leading prepublication journal of book reviews, announced the winners for the first-ever Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature.

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The National Book Awards 2014

Winners of the 2014 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature were announced at the 65th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 19, 2014.

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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014

The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world's most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and publishers.

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The Audie Awards 2014

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Children's Choice Book Awards 2014

The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the seventh annual Children’s Choice Book Awards (CCBAs) at a charity gala benefitting Every Child a Reader in New York City on May 14, 2014. The announcement is an annual highlight of Children’s Book Week (May 12-18, 2014) as the CCBAs is the only national book awards program where the winning titles are selected by kids and teens. Young readers across the country voted in record numbers for their favorite books, author and illustrator at bookstores, school libraries, and at bookweekonline.com.

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Pulitzer Prize Winners in Letters and Drama 2014

The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced on April 14, 2014 by Columbia University.

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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2013

The 34th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on Friday, April 11, 2014, in a public ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The best books of 2013 were recognized in 10 categories, along with the winners of Innovator’s and Robert Kirsch awards.

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International Thriller Writers Awards 2014

On July 12, 2014, during ThrillerFest IX, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the winners of the 2014 Thriller Awards at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2014

The American Library Association (ALA) announced this year’s recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, funded through a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt received the medal for fiction, and THE BULLY PULPIT: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin received the medal for nonfiction. The selections were announced on June 28, 2014 at the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Awards Presentation held during the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.

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