Award-Winning Titles (October 2022)
We’re so excited about all of the newly announced book award winners and nominees!
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Shehan Karunatilaka was awarded this year's highly coveted Booker Prize for his novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The Booker Prize is the top literary award for the best work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber was named the winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel, The House of Rust. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu and The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente were named as top finalists. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is awarded to a writer of imaginative fiction whose work reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work, including hope, equity, freedom, non-violence, and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world.
Harry Josephine Giles' novel Deep Wheel Orcadia received the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year.
Benjamin Dean, Natasha Bowen and Kia Abdullah have been named winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2022, the annual prize celebrating outstanding inclusive books by authors and publishers based in the UK and Ireland. Dean’s Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow won the Children’s Diverse Book Award. Skin of the Sea by Bowen won in the YA book category, and Abdullah’s Next of Kin won in the adult category.
Alia Trabucco Zerán won the 2022 British Academy Book Prize for her book, When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold. The British Academy Book Prize is awarded annually for a non-fiction book that has made an outstanding contribution to global cultural understanding for a wider public audience.
Trust, by Hernan Diaz, won the Kirkus Prize for best fiction. In Sensorium, by Tanaïs, won for best non-fiction. And Himawari House, by Harmony Becker, won in the young readers category. The Kirkus Prizes are awarded by the industry journal Kirkus Reviews.
The shortlist has been announced for this year's Baillie Gifford Prize, which celebrates excellence in non-fiction writing. The list includes:
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, by Caroline Elkins
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, by Jonathan Freedland
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route, by Sally Hayden
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown, by Anna Keay
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story, by Polly Morland
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell
The winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize will be announced in November.
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