International Impac Dublin Literary Award

www.impacdublinaward.ie
The largest, most international, award of its kind. It involves libraries from all corners of the world and is open to books written in any language as long as they have been translated into English. The winner was announced on 15 June 2011.

Winner 2011: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann.

Browse a list of all eight titles shortlisted for the 2011 Award in our catalogue

Access current and past issues of 'Fiction Matters', the Award Newsletter.

The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize is one of the world's most famous literary prizes for contemporary fiction. Awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

2011 Winner: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)

Browse a list of titles from the Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2011 in our catalogue

The Man Booker International Prize

The Man Booker International Prize is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work. Previous awards have been given to Ismail Kadaré in 2005, Chinua Achebe in 2007 and Alice Munro in 2009.

2011 Winner: Philip Roth

The Irish Book Awards

The Irish Book Awards, which grew out of the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Prize, were established in 2006 to "acknowledge the wealth of talent in Irish literature".

2011 Winners:

• Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award - Mistaken by Neil Jordan
• Sunday Independent Irish Newcomer of the Year - Solace by Belinda McKeon
• Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award - Seamus Heaney
• RTE Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award - How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
• The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year - Bloodland by Alan Glynn
• Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year - Easy Meals by Rachel Allen
• Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year - All for You by Sheila O'Flanagan
• Irish Sports Book of the Year - Inside the Peloton by Nicolas Roche
• International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year - Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson

The Orange Prize for Fiction

The Orange Prize is awarded to a female author who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English.

Winner 2011: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

The Orange Prize 2011 Fiction shortlist:

• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
• Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
• Great House by Nicole Krauss
• The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Browse a list of titles from the Orange Prize Shortlist 2011 in our catalogue

Costa Book Awards

www.costabookawards.com/
The selection criteria for these awards is for well-written enjoyable books in five categories which the judges would recommend anyone to read.

Costa Book of the Year 2011: Pure by Andrew Miller

Winners 2011:

• Costa First Novel Award: Pure by Andrew Miller
• Costa Novel Award: Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
• Costa Children's Book Award: Blood Red Road by Moira Young
• Costa Poetry Award: The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy 
• Costa Biography Award: Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis

BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is the UK's most important prize for non-fiction.

Winner 2011: Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter

Browse a list of titles from the Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2011 in our catalogue

Crime Writers’ Association Daggers

The CWA Daggers celebrate the best in crime and thriller writing.

Winners 2011:

• Gold Dagger: Tom Franklin
• The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Steve Hamilton The Lock Artist
• The John Creasey Dagger: S.J. Watson Before I Go To Sleep
• International Dagger: Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
• Non-Fiction Dagger: The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr
• Dagger in the Library: Mo Hayder
• Short Story dagger: Homework by Phil Lovesey
• Debut Dagger: Michele Rowe for What Hidden Lies

William Hill Sports Book of the Year

Winner 2011: A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke (Ronald Reng)

The 23rd annual William Hill Sports Book of the Year has been awarded to "Reng's biography of Robert Enke, the German national goalkeeper who suffered from depression and took his own life two years ago, was praised by the judging panel for its powerful and insightful nature as well as its sensitivity and sincerity" (award website).

Nobel Prize For Literature

The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded annually to an individual who 'shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction'

Winner 2011: Tomas Tranströmer "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".