UNITED KINGDOM:
The Man Asian Literary Prize was founded in 2007. It is an annual literary award given to the best novel by an
Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.
Novels written by women which have been nominated for the 2010 prize are: Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna,
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa, Monkey-man by Usha K.R. and Below the Crying Mountain by Criselda Yabes. The
shortlist will be announced in February and the award in March. The winning author is awarded USD 30,000 and the translator
(if any) USD 5,000. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/
The Costa Prize (formerly known as the Whitbread award) for first novel has been awarded to Kishwar Desai for Witness the Night which "which
explores India's hidden female infanticide". The prize for best novel went to Maggie O'Farrell for her fifth novel,The Hand That First Held Mine. The Costa
Award preents prizes in five catagories, each writer wins £5,000. Since 1971, the awards have rewarded a wide range of excellent books and authors across all genres.
http://www.costabookawards.com.
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize has been awarded to Amy Sackville for The Still Point. The prize honours the writer John
Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed in action in World War II, and is open to British and Commonwealth writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry,
aged 35 or under, at the time of publication. The prize is worth £5,000 to the winner and £500 to each of the shortlisted
authors. Other shortlisted books written by women include: A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller, Corrag by Susan Fletcher, and
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine.
CANADA
Dianne Warren has won the 2010 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction for her novel, Cool Water.
Other women nominated for the award were: Emma Donoghue for Room, Sandra Birdsell for Waiting for Joe,
and Kathleen Winter for Annabel.
The awards for translation went to Montreal's Linda Gaboriau for her "brilliant translation of Wajdi Mouawad's
Forests (French to English), and to Sophie Voillot, also of Montreal, for her translation of Rawi Hage's
Cockroach (English to French).
Finalists for The 14 awards are worth $25,000 each, and are given to authors, illustrators and translators in
the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation.
The Canada Council for the Arts has a full list of the awards and nominees.
Johanna Skibsrud has been named the 2010 winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel
The Sentimentalists, published by Gaspereau Press. The largest annual literary prize in the
country, the Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $50,000 to the author of the best Canadian novel or short
story collection published in English and $5,000 to each of the finalists. A shortlist of five authors
and their books was announced on October 5, 2010. Other women nominated were Kathleen Winter for her novel Annabel and
Sarah Selecky for her short story collection This Cake is for the Party. http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/Johanna-Skibsrud-wins-the-2010-scotiabank-giller-prize.html
The winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Award for Fiction Prize was announced in early November. The winner is Emma Donoghue for
her novel, Room. She will receive $25,000. The Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Prize ($25,000) awarded to a writer in mid-career
for a body of work, went to Miriam Toews. The Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life ($20,000), awarded to a writer
dedicated to writing as a primary pursuit, for a body of work, went to Myrna Kotash. The complete awards and list of finalist can be
see on the Writers' Trust website
UNITED STATES
Jaimy Gordon was announced the winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction on November 17th for her novel, The Lord of Misrule
Finalists also included Nicole Krauss for Great House, Lionel Shriver for So Much for That, and Karen Tei Tamashita for
I Hotel. For all full list of all awards, winners, and nominees visit the National Book Foundation's website.
Lydia Millet was announced as a finalist for 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her short fiction collection Love in Infant Monkeys, which the award committee noted is, "an
imaginative collection of linked stories, often describing a memorable encounter between a famous person and an animal,
underscoring the human folly of longing for significance while chasing trifles." The prize, which went to Paul Harding for his novel Tinkers,
this year, is awarded for "For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000)." http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2010-Fiction
The 2010 World Fantasy Awards were announced in late October. Winner for best novella went to Australia's Margo Lanagan for "Sea-Hearts" feature in the anthology, X6. American
author Karen Joy Fowler won for best short story. Best short fiction collection was a tie between Gene Wolfe and Russia's Ludmilla Petrushevskaya for her collection,There Once Lived a
Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales.
SPAIN: Spanish novelist Ana María Matute is the winner of the 2010 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, considered the "Nobel Prize of Spanish letters". The winner receives €90,000.
AFRICA: The inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing was announced last September. The fiction prize went to Zambian
author Ellen Banda-Aaku for Patchwork. The award seeks to "highlight the diverse writing talent on the African continent
and make new African fiction and non-fiction available to a wider readership."
AUSTRALIA: The Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced in November. The winner of the prize for fiction
is Eva Hornung for Dog Boy. http://www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards