Awards

Lavie Tidhar has won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for his speculative fiction novel Osama.
Tidhar trumped an impressive shortlist including authors such as Stephen King and George RR Martin and was awarded the prize at a gala event held in Toronto last weekend.

Set in a world without global terrorism, OSAMA follows a private detective hired to locate the obscure author of a series of pulp fiction novels. These feature one 'Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante'. Tidhar explores the post-9/11 global subconscious, mixing together elements of film noir, non-fiction, alternative history and international thriller. The book was inspired by a number of close calls the author has had with terrorist attacks.

The other titles on the shortlist:

• Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman
• 11/22/63, Stephen King
• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
• Among Others, Jo Walton

World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: Tim Powers - Bible Repairman and Other Stories
World Fantasy Award for Best Antholgy: Vandermeer (Ed.) - Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

• Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman
• 11/22/63, Stephen King 
• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin 
• Osama, Lavie Tidhar
• Among Others, Jo Walton

More about the World Fantasy Award nominees

The longlist for The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2012: 

• Nicola Barker, The Yips
• Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident
• André Brink, Philida
• Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
• Michael Frayn, Skios
• Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
• Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies
• Alison Moore, The Lighthouse
• Will Self, Umbrella
• Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
• Sam Thompson, Communion Town

Read more about the award

The longlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction - the ‘Man Booker Dozen' - was announced on Tuesday 26th of July. A total of 138 books were considered for the longlist, 13 made the list. They are:

Congratulations to Serbian/American author Téa Obreht for winning the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Tiger's Wife!

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury)
• Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson (Sceptre)
• Great House by Nicole Krauss (Viking)
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape)

Read more about the Orange Prize for Fiction

The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing throughout the world.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 

The 2011 longlist:

• Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch (Canongate)
• Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
• The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi (Bloomsbury)
• Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty (Faber and Faber)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury)
• The London Train by Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape)
• Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson (Sceptre)
• The Seas by Samantha Hunt (Corsair)
• The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (Faber and Faber)
• Great House by Nicole Krauss (Viking)
• The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (Chatto & Windus)
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Viking)
• Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile (Serpent’s Tail)
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Chatto & Windus)
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Serpent’s Tail)
• The Swimmer by Roma Tearne (Harper Press)
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape)
  

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

Mario Vargas Llosa - in the bookshop

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 longlist:

• Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America
• Emma Donoghue - Room
• Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal
• Damon Galgut - In a Strange Room
• Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
• Andrea Levy - The Long Song
• Tom McCarthy - C
• David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• Lisa Moore - February
• Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
• Rose Tremain - Trespass
• Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
• Alan Warner - The Stars in the Bright Sky

More about The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 longlist