Award Winning Books

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1 Man Booker Prize
2 National Book Award
3 National Book Critics Circle Award
4 Nobel Prize
5 PEN/Faulkner Award
6 Pulitzer Prize
7 Other Awards

Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards for contemporary fiction. It is awarded each year to the best novel written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland. For a complete list of nominees and winners visit Booker Prize

2007 Winner - The Gathering by Anne Enright

"The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him - something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester." --BOOK JACKET.

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National Book Award

The National Book Award is presented annually to an American writer. It is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. For a complete list of previous nominees and winners, including other categories, visit the National Book Foundation

2007 Winner -- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

"To write a fat novel about the Vietnam War nearly 35 years after it ended is an act of literary bravado. To do so as brilliantly as Denis Johnson has in Tree of Smoke is positively a miracle." -Washington Post

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National Book Critics Circle Award

Each year NBCC awards prizes to the finest books published in English. For a complete list of winners, including categories for non-fiction, biography, and poetry visit NBCC

2007 Winner - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

"Readers who have had to wait a decade for his first novel are now spectacularly rewarded. Paralleling his own experiences growing up in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey, he has choreographed a family saga at once sanguinary and sexy that confronts the horrific brutality at loose during the reign of the dictator Trujillo." --Donna Seaman, Bookist Review

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature distinguishes the works of authors from many different countries, cultures, and languages. The prize has been awarded to acclaimed authors as well as undiscovered talent. Visit Nobelprize.org for the complete list of Nobel Laureates in Literature.

2007 Winner Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) and spent much of her childhood in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She moved to London in 1949 where she published her first novel The Grass is Singing in 1950, followed by her breakthrough novel The Golden Notebook in 1962.

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PEN/Faulkner Award

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens each year. For a complete list of winners visit The Pen/Faulkner Foundation

2008 Winner The Great Man by Kate Christensen

“Christensen gives a virtuoso performance, tossing off perfect sentences seemingly at random, delivering them with a sneer that makes them more delicious.” —Lev Grossman, Time

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is an annual award given to an American author, with preference to work pertaining to American issues. Visit Pulitzer Prizes for more information.

2008 Winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

“Funny, street-smart and keenly observed…An extraordinarily vibrant book that’s fueled by adrenaline-powered prose.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

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