National Book Awards:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2013.html#.UsXH-RZLrww
•I have not read or heard of any of this year's winners, runners-up, or longlist nominees. Sad :(
National Book Critics Circle Award nominees:
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/01/national_book_critics_circles_2013_awards_announced
•The fiction award here was presented to Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Deemed "the Catch-22 of the Iraq War," I'm really excited to look further into this. It also made the finals for the NBA (that first award up there, not the basketball league) which is promising.
The Newbery and Caldecott Awards, both for young fiction:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal
•All interesting winners and nominees, but none that are calling my name.
The Pulitzer Prize:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Pulitzer_Prize
•The multiple literature and writing award winners all look interesting, but The Black Count (drama winner) looks by far the most promising. 4000 Miles also looks intriguing (history winner).
The PEN/Faulkner award nominees:
http://www.penfaulkner.org/2013/03/06/congratulations-2013-penfaulkner-award-finalists/
•Again, nothing I've heard of.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the contemporary writer Alice Munro, whose page on the Nobel Prize website can be found here:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/munro-facts.html
•She has been acclaimed for her short stories (which aren't really my thing), which is a little unusual.
*The Bibliomaniac Book of the Year Award this year goes to Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.* It ran a hard race against The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Doing the Truth in Love by Fr. Michael J. Himes, CSC but ultimately came out on top (maybe because I can sing along to this book). All are excellent books: find their reviews here, here, and here.
God Bless Always,
Your Bibliomaniac
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