Innovative Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai is tonight announced as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Krasznahorkai was chosen from a list of ten eminent contenders from around the world.
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/winner-2015-man-booker-international-prize
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes:
Journalism
 Public Service: The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
Breaking News Reporting:Â The Seattle Times Staff
Investigative Reporting:Â Eric Lipton of The New York Times;Â Â The Wall Street Journal Staff
Explanatory Reporting:Â Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News
Local Reporting:Â Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA
National Reporting:Â Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
International Reporting:Â The New York Times Staff
Feature Writing:Â Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
Commentary:Â Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
Criticism:Â Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial Writing:Â Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe
Editorial Cartooning:Â Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News
Breaking News Photography:Â St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff
Feature Photography:Â Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times
 Letters, Drama, and Music
Fiction:Â All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Drama:Â Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
History:Â Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
Biography or Autobiography:Â The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Random House)
Poetry:Â Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
General Nonfiction:Â The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)
Music:Â Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc.)
Source:Â http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2015
The 2012 shortlist for the International Arabic Fiction Prize has been released… which is worth $50,000 and an English translation and publication to the winning author.
The nominated books are:
The Unemployed by Nasser Iraq
Toy of Fire by Bashir Mufti
The Vagrant by Jabbour Douaihy
The Druze of Belgrade by Rabee Jaber
The Women of al-Basatin by Habib Selmi
Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge by Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury announced its longlist on Tuesday, September 6. This is the 18th year of the prize and a record-breaking number of books were submitted by publishers across the country, a total of 143. This year’s jury is made up of: award-winning Canadian writer and 2009 Giller finalist Annabel Lyon; American author, memoirist and Guggenheim fellow Howard Norman; and acclaimed UK playwright and prize-winning novelist Andrew O’Hagan.
For the first time ever, the Scotiabank Giller Prize invited the public to choose a book for the longlist. The Readers’ Choice contest received more than 4,000 entries from passionate readers arguing their case for a favourite book. The Readers’ Choice selection was Extensions by Myrna Day, a debut novel published by Newest Press.
Bezmozgis, David | The Free World
Blaise, Clark | The Meagre Tarmac
Christie, Michael | The Beggar’s Garden
Coady, Lynn | The Antagonist
deWitt, Patrick | The Sisters Brothers
Dey, Myrna | Extensions
Edugyan, Esi | Half-Blood Blues
Endicott, Marina | The Little Shadows
Gartner, Zsuzsi | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Gunn, Genni | Solitaria
Holdstock, Pauline | Into the Heart of the Country
Johnston, Wayne | A World Elsewhere
Laferrière, Dany (trans. David Homel) | The Return
Mayr, Suzette | Monoceros
Ondaatje, Michael | The Cat’s Table
Vanderhaeghe, Guy | A Good Man
Zentner, Alexi | Touch
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 6th September 2011.
Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
Carol Birch – Jamrach’s Menagerie
Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
Esi Edugyan – Half Blood Blues
Stephen Kelman – Pigeon English
A D Miller – Snowdrops