Recent Winners
Booker Prize Foundation
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Fiction writer David Diop of Pau,
France, and translator Anna Moschovakis of New York City and Delaware County, New York, won the 2021 International Booker Prize for Moschovakis’s translation from the French of Diop’s novel, At Night All Blood Is Black (Pushkin Press). They each received £25,000 (approximately $34,662). The finalists were Mariana Enríquez of Buenos Aires and Megan McDowell of Santiago for McDowell’s translation from the Spanish of Enríquez’s story collection The Dangers of Smoking in
Bed (Granta Books); Benjamín Labatut of Santiago and Adrian Nathan West of Spain for West’s translation from the Spanish of Labatut’s novel When We Cease to Understand the World (Pushkin Press); Olga Ravn of Copenhagen, and Martin Aitken of Denmark for Aitken’s translation from the Danish of Ravn’s novel The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century (Lolli Editions); Maria Stepanova of Moscow and Sasha Dugdale of Cambridge, England, for Dugdale’s translation from the Russian of Stepanova’s novel In Memory of Memory (Fitzcarraldo Editions); and Éric Vuillard of Rennes, France, and Mark Polizzotti of New York City for Polizzotti’s translation from the French of Vuillard’s novel The War of the Poor (Pan Macmillan, Picador). They each received £1,000 (approximately $1,378). Merve Emre, Petina Gappah, Mel Giedroyc, Jeremy Tiang, and Frank Wynne judged. The annual award is given for a story collection or novel translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the award year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set. Booker Prize Foundation, International Booker Prize, 28 St. James’s Walk, London, England EC1R 0AP.
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Center for African American Poetry and Poetics/Autumn House Press
BOOK PRIZE
Jacqui Germain of Saint Louis won the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize for her poetry collection, Bittering the Wound. She received $3,000, and her book will be published by Autumn House Press in 2022. Douglas Kearney judged. The annual award is given for a first or second poetry collection or work that intersects with poetry, including hybrid work and translation, by a writer of African descent. The next deadline is February 15, 2022. Center for African American Poetry and Poetics/Autumn House Press,
Book Prize, University of Pittsburgh, Department of English, 526 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
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Commonwealth Club of California
CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS
Nathalie Khankan of San Francisco won the 90th annual California Book Awards gold medal in poetry for her collection, Quiet Orient Riot (Omnidawn). Daniel Mason of Palo Alto won the gold medal in fiction for his story collection, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (Little, Brown). C Pam Zhang of San Francisco won the gold medal in first fiction for her novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold (Riverhead Books). Alice L. Baumgartner of Los Angeles won the gold medal in nonfiction for her book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books). Richard White of Stanford and Jesse Amble White of Los Angeles won the gold medal in Californiana for his book California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History (Norton). Charles Yu of Irvine won the silver medal in fiction for his novel Interior Chinatown (Pantheon). Conor Dougherty of Oakland won the silver medal in nonfiction for Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream (Penguin Press).
The gold medal winners each received $5,000 and the silver medal winners each received $2,500. The annual awards are given to honor California writers for books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published during the previous year.
(SEE DEADLINES.) Commonwealth Club of California, California Book Awards, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105. info@commonwealthclub.org
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