Book Awards
The Man Booker Award
2006
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Short list:
The Secret River, Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down, M.J. Hyland
In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
Mother's Milk, Edward St. Aubyn
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
2005
The Sea, John Banville
Short list:
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Accidental, Ali Smith
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2004 The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The National Book Awards (US)
2006 Fiction
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
Short list:
Only Revolutions, Mark Z. Danielewski
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, Ken Kalfus
Eat the Document, Dana Spiotta
The Zero, Jess Walters
National Book Critics Circle Awards (US)
2005 Fiction
The March, E.L. Doctorow
Short list:
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Small Island, Andrea Levy
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishigruo
Europe Central, William Vollmann
The Miles Franklin Award (Australia)
2006
The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
Commonwealth Writers Prize
2006
The Secret River, Kate Grenville, Australia
Nobel Prize for Literature
2006 Orphan Pamuk, Turkey
2005 Harold Pinter, United Kingdom
2004 Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
2003 J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
2002 Imre Kertesz, Hungary
2001 V.S. Naipaul, Great Britain
2000 Gao Xingjian, China
The Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)
2006 March, Geraldine Brooks
2005 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2004 The Known World, Edward P. Jones
2003 Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
