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Borders Original Voices Awards
The nominees for the 2008 Borders Original Voices Awards, which
recognize "fresh, compelling and ambitious works from the new and
emerging talents," have been selected by the bookseller's corporate and
store employees. A committee of corporate staff members will select the
winners in each of the four categories. Here are the nominees in the adult cataegories:
Fiction
* Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
* The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
* The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
* The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
* The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
* The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Nonfiction
* The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the
Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by
Thomas Hager
* The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese food by Jennifer 8 Lee
* The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in
the World by Eric Weiner
* The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by
Helene Cooper
* The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a
Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
* We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken
Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever by
Benjamin Mee

2008 Costa Book Awards Shortlist announced. The Costas are UK awards which "recognise some of the most enjoyable books in five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - published in the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland." The overall winner of the Costa Book of the Year will be announced on January 27th.

Winners of the 2008 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Alberta:
* Novel: Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
* Novella: Illyria by Elizabeth Hand
* Short Story: "Singing of Mount Abora" by Theodora Goss
* Anthology: Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural edited by Ellen Datlow
* Collection: Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman
* Life Achievement: Leo and Diane Dillon and Patricia McKillip

2009 International Impac Dublin Literary Award Longlist announced. The award is the most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English in the world.

Dylan Thomas Book Prize is won by The Boat. Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le is the second winner of the biannual Dylan Thomas Book Prize, which is awarded to a writer under 30 and working in English. The prize was established by the University of Wales in 2004.

Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. The awards recognize writers who have been published in Ireland and Britain for the first time in the past year. Sally Nicholls won with Ways to Live Forever. HCPL has copies in the Middle School Fiction section.

George Carlin presented posthumously with Mark Twain Prize for American Humour at the Kennedy Center.

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