SerDunc_an Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 My elementary school English teacher gave me a cup for best story! Does that count as a lit prize? Gosh, seems so long ago Lin Meili 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 3/25/2021 at 12:53 PM, Trishkin said: The Dublin Literary Award shortlist has been announced: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Apeirogon by Colum McCann Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead While I really like this award, it has never done a very good job of showcasing books in translation; 16 of the 25 winners have been English language novels. And this year is no different, with 5 of the 6 shortlisted works having been originally written in English. The winner is Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli. A bit surprised by this one. My money was on Girl, Woman, Other or The Nickel Boys, with On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous as a possible spoiler. Ormond 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) Missed these two earlier in the year: PEN/Faulkner Award: Winner: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Shortlist: Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses, The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe, Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman, and Scattered Lights by Steve Wiegenstein PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel: Winner: Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Shortlist: These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card, Luster by Raven Leilani, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, and How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang Edited May 26, 2021 by Trishkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted June 1, 2021 Author Share Posted June 1, 2021 (edited) Well the Pulitzer Prize will be announced on the 11th, and since they don’t put out a shortlist prior to the award announcement, I thought it might be a good time for a little speculation. Below is an in-no-way complete list of eligible books I think will get consideration: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar Deacon King Kong by James McBride Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Luster by Raven Leilani A Children’s Bible by Lidia Millet The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Real Life by Brandon Taylor Memorial Bryan Washington Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw The Pulitzer fiction guidelines famously state “For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life”, which means that Booker winner Shuggie Bain, which is set in Scotland, is going to have an uphill battle to win the Pulitzer. Though it’s not impossible (see The Good Earth or The Orphan Master’s Son). Anyway, my predictions for the shortlist are: Interior Chinatown, Deacon King Kong, and The Night Watchman. Of those three, I’ve only read Interior Chinatown, which is an amazing novel and would be a hugely deserving winner. But my prediction for the winner is: Deacon King Kong Edited June 1, 2021 by Trishkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 And the Pulitzer winner is: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Shortlist: A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason, and Telephone by Percival Everett. I’m stoked to see Erdrich finally win a Pulitzer, but the two shortlisted titles came completely out of left field for me. Ormond 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Forgot Sry Myshkin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 On 6/14/2021 at 9:26 AM, TheLastWolf said: Forgot Sry Oh shit, totally forgot to post this too. To be clear, this is the Booker International prize, for works translated into English, and the winner is At Night All Blood is Black (Senegal/France) by David Diop. I’ve been really looking forward to this book, as Chigozie Obioma has been talking it up for months. TheLastWolf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist: Alligators & Other Stories by Dina Alzayat A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet The First Woman (aka A Girl is a Body of Water) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Lote by Shola von Reinhold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) Booker Longlist: A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam Second Place by Rachel Cusk The Promise by Damon Galgut The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro An Island by Karen Jennings A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood The Fortune Man by Nadifa Mohamed Bewilderment by Richard Powers China Room by Sunjeev Sahota Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford Edited July 27, 2021 by Myshkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 11 hours ago, Myshkin said: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted September 23, 2021 Author Share Posted September 23, 2021 Booker shortlist: A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam The Promise by Damon Galgut No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed Bewilderment by Richard Powers Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead The big surprise here is Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun missing the cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted September 23, 2021 Author Share Posted September 23, 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner: Lote by Shola von Reinhold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Damon Galgut’s The Promise is the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 The National Book Awards will be announced on Wednesday. Finalists for Fiction are: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Matrix by Lauren Groff Zorrie by Laird Hunt The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott Finalists for Translated Literature are: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (French) Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei (Chinese) The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez (Chilean) When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut (Chilean) Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek (Syrian) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 National Book Award Winners: Fiction: Hell of a Book by Jason Mott Translated Literature: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (French) Young People’s Literature: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Poetry: Floaters by Martin Espada Nonfiction: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) National Book Critics Circle Award shortlist: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen Second Place by Rachel Cusk Burntcoat by Sarah Hall The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Winner will be announced March 17 Edited February 6, 2022 by Myshkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel shortlist: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade Winner will be announced Feb. 28 Edited February 6, 2022 by Myshkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award longlist: Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis The Trees by Percival Everett Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Intimacies by Katie Kitamura How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Chouette by Claire Oshetsky Winner will be announced May 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 On 2/5/2022 at 10:29 PM, Myshkin said: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel shortlist: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade Winner will be announced Feb. 28 Winner is Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Myshkin, I don't know if anyone else feels this way but thanks for posting Lit awards. I do enjoy seeing what is out there to read and enjoy even if I don't have the time to actually read all these books. Teng Ai Hui, Myshkin, dog-days and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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