Book Awards
CBCA - Children's Book of the Year Awards
These annual awards are for books with an implied readership under the age of eighteen, and are presented in five categories.
The Judges assess entries for the Awards primarily for literary merit, including cohesiveness in significant literary elements; language chosen carefully for its appropriateness to the theme and style of the work with proper regard to the aesthetic qualities of language; and originality in the treatment of literary elements as they apply to the form of the work. Judges also consider quality of illustrations, book design, production, printing and binding.
Past Winners (link to external site)
West Australian Young Readers Book Award
The Award operates on two levels, Younger Readers and Older Readers. Readers are invited to nominate, through their libraries, books that they have enjoyed. These nominations are then considered by the WAYRBA committee and the two lists are drawn up.
Eligibility Books of fiction published within the last five years and currently in print. May be written by a living Australian or overseas author. Only one title of any author may be included on a list in any year.
Evaluation Young people are asked to read titles on the lists and evaluate them as 'terrific', 'good', 'okay' or 'awful.'
Shortlists 2008
Shortlists 2007
Past Winners (link to external site)
Australian Awards
Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
ABC Fiction Award 2008
Winner – Main Massin, God for the Killing
Children’s Book Council of Western Australia
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Adult)
Man Booker Prizes 2008 (Adult)
Winner – Anne Enright, Gathering
Shortlisted – Nicola Barker, Darklands
Mohsin Hamid, Reluctant Fundamentalist
Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
Indra Sinha, Animals People
Miles Franklin Award 2008 (Adult)
Winner – Steven Carroll, Time We Have Taken
Shortlisted – Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewell
Rodney Hall, Love Without Hope
Gail Jones, Sorry
David Brooks, Fern Tattoo
Christopher Koch, Memory Room
Longlisted – Janette Turner Hospital, Orpheus Lost
Nicholas Shakespeare, Secrets of the Sea
Tom Keneally, Window and Her Hero
West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award
United Kingdom Awards
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (Adult)
United States of America Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Literature 2008 (Adult)
Winner – Junot Diaz, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Shortlisted – Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
Lore Segal, Shakespeare’s Kitchen
International Awards
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2008
Winner – Sonya Hartnett
Nobel Laureates in Literature (Adult)
Reference
For a comprehensive list of book awards, visit http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/
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