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Posted on November 21, 2023 at 8:07 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
'Tis the season to have news of both traditional awards and best-of lists ...
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Bob Mortimer has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for his debut novel, The Satsuma Complex; the comic-fiction prize brings its winner an unusual set of prizes: a pig named after the novel, expensive bubbly wine, and a complete set of the Everyman’s Library PG Wodehouse collection.
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The bookies have released their odds for this Sunday's Booker Prize announcement, and as Literary Hub points out, they seem very confident that an author named Paul will take home the top honor.
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The shortlist for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, which will honor four category winners with £5,000 (about $6,300) and one overall winner with £30,000 (about $37,600), has been released.
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Here's a short list that isn't for a highly compensated prize: a few of BookRiot writers’ favorite lesser-known books (defined as having under 500 Goodreads ratings).
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And finally, more than 1,700 Canadian writers have signed an open letter asking that charges be dropped for the pro-Palestinian protestors who disrupted the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala last week, reports Literary Hub.
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