2012 Awards Winners Nominations

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Originally Posted by TheFifthElement

Anyone fancy nominating a poetry prize for the last choice? Or non-fiction? Might make a refreshing change.

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True but the Book Club readings for works of fiction (mostly novels even though we had autobiographical works once or twice).

If we do not have enough nominations by tomorrow evening, I will ask everyone to nominate another one.

I don't keep track of these things. Would it be possible to tell me what the difference is?

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Originally Posted by Stewed

I don't keep track of these things. Would it be possible to tell me what the difference is?

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Difference between/in what?

I'm overall haunted by a sense that there's a 'literary scene' that's mostly invisible to me and passing me by. Leads me to ask hazy or impossible 'what's the lowdown' questions sometimes. Even I usually wind up hearing about the Nobel, and I know there's something called the Booker that seems to go to good writers. Hugo's an audience choice sci-fi award. The rest is a big blank. So I was asking one of those, "help! I have a big blank!" questions, that looks odd to me in retrospect.

The GG's award is given by the Governor General of Canada to an author who published, what is judged by a panel of academics/authors/critics, the best novel in Canada for the previous year. It's usually seen as kind of the more artsy award in comparison to the more popular oriented Giller Prize for Canadian fiction.

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Originally Posted by Stewed

I'm overall haunted by a sense that there's a 'literary scene' that's mostly invisible to me and passing me by. Leads me to ask hazy or impossible 'what's the lowdown' questions sometimes. Even I usually wind up hearing about the Nobel, and I know there's something called the Booker that seems to go to good writers. Hugo's an audience choice sci-fi award. The rest is a big blank. So I was asking one of those, "help! I have a big blank!" questions, that looks odd to me in retrospect.

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In that case, Google is your best friend :D


Let's have second nominations from everyone!

Nominations so far:

1. National Book Award

2. Pulitzer for Fiction

3.Orange Prize for Fiction

4. Xavier Villaurrutia Award

5. Hugo award

6. Prix Goncourt

7. Nobel

8. Booker

9. the Governor General's Award for English language fiction.


I will nominate "Newbery Book Award".

How about the Bram Stoker Award, mainly because I'm running out of awards I'm familiar with.

Thanks, Pip and Scheherazade.