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The prizes are traditionally announced at a gala lunch in June, although in 2020 the proceedings took place online because of COVID-19; [4] [5] the 2025 winner will be announced in July. [ 6 ] There are a number of awards for specific categories of books, and an overall winner is selected as the "Book of the Year".
Every IPPY submission is considered for an Outstanding Book award, regardless of category. The outstanding medalists are chosen for exemplifying 'daring spirit' with a book that is 'the most heartfelt, unique, outspoken and experimental among all entries.' [7] In 2020, there were 11 Outstanding Books in eight categories: Most Original Concept
[13] [14] In 2020, Sarah Hall, who won the award in 2013 and 2020, became the first writer to have won the award twice. [15] In 2012, in honour of the 2012 Summer Olympics hosted in London, the competition was open to a global audience for one year only. [16] Ten stories were shortlisted, instead of five, and Bulgarian writer Miroslav Penkov ...
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners, 2020–2029 [6] Year Author Title Ref. 2020 Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters [34] Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End [35] Peter Rock: The Night Swimmers: Maurice Carlos Ruffin: We Cast a Shadow: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 2021 Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies [36] [37] Matthew Salesses
The awards are made in four categories: children's fiction, fiction, debut fiction, and non-fiction. A short list of four is drawn up for each category, and category winners are chosen, receiving £5,000. There is then a further selection process before one of the category winners is awarded the £30,000 "Golden Nero" award as "Book of the year".
2020s Best Young Adult winners and shortlists [19] Year Author Title Result Ref. 2020 Naomi Kritzer: Catfishing on CatNet: Winner [26] Adriana Mather: Killing November: Shortlist [27] Randy Ribay: Patron Saints of Nothing: Kristen Simmons: The Deceivers: Leah Thomas: Wild and Crooked: 2021 Katie Alender: The Companion: Winner [28] [29] Jennifer ...
The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is an annual U.S. literary award. At the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards Ceremony every April, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation presents the New Writer Award (since 1985) and New Illustrator Award (since 2001) to an author and an illustrator who are at an early stage of their career.
The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is an annual literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors.. The SPFBO has been operated since 2015 by the author Mark Lawrence.