Man Booker Judges’ List and more
14 authors from 12 countries have made it on to Judges’ List of the Man Booker Prize 2009, with seven of the authors being writers in translation. You can find the list here. On the other hand, American authors dominated the longlist of the Orange fiction award.
The shortlist for the 2009 Arthur C Clarke Award was also announced this week, consisting of six works, with the early frontrunner being the Neal Stephenson for Anathem.
Irish poet Seamus Heaney was awarded the £40,000 David Cohen prize in recognition of the "sheer scale" of his literary achievements.
His fellow poet and chair of the award's judges, poet laureate Andrew Motion, honoured Heaney for a body of poetry that over the past 40 years has "crystallised the story of our times, in language which has bravely and memorably continued to extend its imaginative reach", and for his critical writing, his translations and his lecturing, which "have invigorated the whole wider world of poetry".
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