Reading Time: 2 minutes As the holiday season begins, we have some of the biggest literary awards coming out. The Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 are finally announced, with more than 5.6 million votes from readers. The readers’ have chosen winners in a total of 20 categories, including fiction, non-fiction, debut novel, history & biography, etc. Goodreads is a readers’ …
Reading Time: 2 minutes American Historian Camilla Townsend has won the Cundill History Prize 2020 for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs. The $75,000 prize is one of the elite literary awards that recognize works on history. Camilla’s Fifth Sun was competing with William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, and Vincent …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The award season is still going strong, with yet another important award coming out. The results for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020 came out on Thursday. Nino Haratischvili’s The Eighth Life, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, is the winner. The longlist for the WPWT 2020 came out on October 27, and …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian travel writer Supriya Sehgal has won the Valley of Words Book Award 2020 for her book A Tigress Called Machhli. The book, published by Hachette India, has won the award in the Young Adult category. Supriya Sehgal is a renowned international traveler and is the author of several books related to traveling in India. …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Renowned Indian author Annie Zaidi has won the Fiction Book of the Year 2020 for “Prelude to A Riot” at the Tata Literature Live! Awards. The awards ceremony took place via a digital event in lieu of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Aleph Book Company published the novel in September 2019. Annie Zaidi is a renowned …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his novel Shuggie Bain. The selected novel was Stuart’s first published novel, a story of a young boy trying to break free from his turbulent life in Glasgow of the 1980s. The award was announced on Thursday, November 2020, in a digital event. The …
Reading Time: 2 minutes No matter how crazy the year 2020 was, the annual literary awards season is pretty much alive and kicking. Following the trend, the winners of Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2020 have also been declared. Legendary Canadian writer Margaret Atwood won The Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguish Achievement Award for this year. Alice Hoffman and Chanel …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The jury of the prestigious Cundill History Prize has announced the finalists for 2020. In the official tweet, the international prize team said that they will declare the winner on December 03. The three finalists include Vincent Brown (Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War), William Dalrymple (The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of …