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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang (born 1970) "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". It was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 October 2024 and was awarded on 10 December 2024. [1]
The 75th National Book Awards, presented at a ceremony and benefit dinner by the National Book Foundation, took place on November 20, 2024, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City [1]. During the gala, the National Book Foundation presented awards in 5 competitive categories and 2 special categories honoring books released between December 1 ...
2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award Award Category Author Title Ref. Amazon.ca First Novel Award: Alicia Elliott: And Then She Fell [37] Atlantic Book Awards: Ann Connor Brimer Award: Jack Wong: The Words We Share [38] J. M. Abraham Poetry Award: Fawn Parker: Soft Inheritance: Thomas Head Raddall Award: Michelle Porter
After winning widespread acclaim for Night of the Living Rez, his debut collection of short stories, Talty is back with a first novel that cements his status as a writer to watch. When his ...
The author of several award-winning books about Shakespeare takes a deep dive into the Federal Theatre Project, a short-lived New Deal program designed to give theater people work and bring the ...
The award-winning author of Goodbye Vitamin returns with a novel that follows two generations of a Chinese American family as they reckon with the pressures of assimilation and belonging. Lily ...
National Book Award for Children's Literature winners, 1969–1979 Year Category Author Title 1969 Literature Meindert DeJong: Journey from Peppermint Street: 1970 Literature Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw: 1971 Literature Lloyd Alexander: The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian: 1972 Literature
The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel Orbital , was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London.