Awards

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

The american author Barbara Kingsolver has won The Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 with her sixth novel The Lacuna.

"We chose The Lacuna because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy". Daisy Goodwin, chair of judges.

• The Lacuna in the bookshop
• Orange Prize for Fiction 2010
• Learn about the entry rules and regulations for the prize
  

Lots of good things are happening in Irish crime writing at present. My favourite from the 2009 crop of novels was Stuart Neville's excellent debut The Twelve (published in the US as The Ghosts of Belfast). The NY Times had it on their list of top 5 crime novels of 2009 and just a few days ago The LA Times awarded it the Best Mystery/Thriller Prize! 

I heartily recommend reading this immediately!

• Stuart Neville in the bookshop
• stuartneville.com
• The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  

• Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You
• Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
• Attica Locke, Black Water Rising
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
• Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
• Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

The winner will be announced the 9th of June 2010. The prize is awarded to the woman (of any nationality) who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English, provided that the novel is published for the first time in the United Kingdom between 1 April of the year before the prize is awarded and 31 March of the year in which the prize is awarded.

Read more about The Orange Price for Fiction

 Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" is awarded with the 2009 The Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Herta Müller in the bookshop
• Read more about the Nobel Prize in Literature 2009

Hilary Mantel wins the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction with her novel Wolf Hall.

Read more about the prize