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Here is a look at some of the winning authors and finalists for literary prizes announced in the last week. And the winners are…

2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature

The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for excellence in literature, journalism, music, and drama were revealed on Monday, April 18. Winners of the prizes, which are celebrating their centennial anniversary this year, were announced during a livestream session on YouTube. 

The 2016 winners in Literature are:

  • Fiction: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
  • History: Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Biography or Autobiography: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Penguin Press)
  • Poetry: Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press)
  • General Nonfiction: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick (Doubleday)

Winners receive $10,000 each.

The full list of winners and honorable mentions in all categories is available on the Pulitzer website.

Lambda Literary Foundation 2016 Honorees

Eileen Myles will receive Lambda Literary’s Pioneer Award and Hilton Als will receive the Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature at the 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (known as the “Lammys”).

Lambda Literary announced on Wednesday, April 20, that Myles and Als will be honored along with the winning authors in 25 separate LGBT literary categories at the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony, on Monday, June 6, in New York City.

Myles is the author of 19 books, including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a 2015 reissue of her novel Chelsea Girls. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, four Lambda Literary Awards, and the Shelley Prize from the Poets Society of America.

Als is the author of The Women and, most recently, White Girls, a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction. Als, who is also a staff writer at The New Yorker and a theater critic, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in nonfiction.

Finalists of the 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards can be found here.

2016 Books for a Better Life Award Winners

The 20th anniversary Books for a Better Life Award winners were announced on Monday, April 18, during a ceremony at The TimesCenter in Manhattan.

The awards, presented by the Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, recognize self-improvement books published in 2015 whose messages are aligned with the chapter’s mission. The awards also raise money for the Society’s programs and research.

The 2016 Books for a Better Life Award winners are:

  • Childcare: Girl in Glass by Deanna Fei (Bloomsbury)
  • Cookbook: Cook for Your Life by Ann Ogden Gaffney (Avery)
  • First Book: Blackout by Sarah Hepola (Grand Central)
  • Green: Living the Farm Sanctuary Life by Gene Baur and Gene Stone (Rodale Books)
  • Inspirational Memoir: My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (Random House)
  • Motivational: A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer with Charles Fishman (Simon & Schuster)
  • Psychology: NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman (Avery)
  • Relationships: Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt (Random House)      
  • Spiritual: Triumph of the Heart by Megan Feldman Bettencourt (Hudson Street Press)
  • Wellness: The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner (National Geographic)

The evening also featured the induction of Maria Rodale, chairman and CEO, Rodale Inc., and bestselling author Marianne Williamson, into the Society’s Hall of Fame and the presentation of the Legacy Award to Scott Manning, of Scott Manning & Associates.  

Man Booker International Prize 2016 Shortlist

The shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize was announced on Wednesday, April 13.

The award celebrating the finest in global fiction is sponsored by Man Group, which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The list was selected from 155 books by a panel of five judges consisting of editors, academics, authors, and critics.

Each shortlisted author and translator will receive £1,000, while the £50,000 prize will be divided equally between the author and the translator.

The Man Booker International Prize 2016 shortlist is:

  • A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola); translated by Daniel Hahn (U.K.) (Harvill Secker)
  • The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Italy); translated by Ann Goldstein (U.S.) (Europa Editions)
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang (South Korea); translated by Deborah Smith (U.K.) (Portobello Books)
  • A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey); translated by Ekin Oklap (Turkey) (Faber & Faber)
  • A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Austria); translated by Charlotte Collins (U.K.) (Picador)
  • The Four Books by Yan Lianke (China); translated by Carlos Rojas (U.S.) (Chatto & Windus)

The winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize will be announced on May 16.

2016 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Shortlist

The 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Awards shortlist was announced on Tuesday, April 19. For the past 80 years, the Anisfield-Wolf Awards have recognized books that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and cultural diversity.

Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the prize in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and her husband, Eugene Wolf. Today, the Anisfield-Wolf Award remains the only American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity.

The 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Awards shortlist includes:

  • Fiction: The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris (Nan A.Talese/Doubleday)
  • Nonfiction: The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman (Simon & Schuster)
  • Nonfiction: What the Eye Hears by Brian Seibert (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Poetry: Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Lifetime Achievement: Orlando Patterson

This year’s gala awards ceremony, hosted by the Cleveland Foundation and Dr. Henry Gates, Jr., will take place on Thursday, September 15, in the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland.

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