Neil Gaiman's young adult novel The Graveyard Book has been shortlisted for the 2009 British Fantasy Award. (One has to feel some sympathy for the other nominees—being up against Neil Gaiman, whose most recent novel has already received the coveted Newbery award and others, must be pretty daunting.) [Via McNally Robinson]As we wait for the winner to be announced at the British Fantasy Convention, to be held September 18-20 in Nottingham, U.K., it seems only right to celebrate some other recent wins.
· On June 16, East German authors Erich Loest, Monika Maron, and Uwe Tellkamp received the prestigious German National Prize award. The German National Foundation said the writers "represented three generations symbolizing, personally and with their literary works, the multiple fractures in German history." [Via DW World]
· On June 17, at a ceremony at St. Anne’s College in Oxford, Kathy Rooney, the managing director of Bloomsbury Publishing, was awarded the £3,000 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize in recognition of her professional achievements in publishing. [Via Guardian UK]· Last week, Toronto writer Pasha Malla won the $20,000 Trillium Book Award for his book of short stories The Withdrawal Method, and Jeramy Dodds of Orono, Ont., won the $10,000 poetry prize for his collection Crabwise to the Hounds. Dodds was also a nominee for the Griffin Poetry Prize, awarded earlier this month. [Via The Chronicle Herald]
· Also last week, Glasgow author James Kelman, a former Booker Prize winner, won the £30,000 Scottish Book Award for his novel Kieron Smith, Boy, a story chronicling the life of a young boy in post-war Glasgow.[Via BBC]
--Rachel Frier
Photo Graveyard Book: The Graveyard Book; Photo Kim Scott Walwyn: Book Trust UK
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