07 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in Literacy News
Mao's Great Famine
The winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson prize for non- fiction has been announced.
Mao’s Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award.
He wins 20 thousand pounds.
16 Thursday Jun 2011
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Colum McCann has won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award.
It’s for his book Let The Great World Spin.
It scoops the world’s most lucrative literary prize worth £88,000.
The story of colliding cultures set in 1970s New York was described by judges as a “remarkable literary work”.
15 Wednesday Jun 2011
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The short-list for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize has been announced.
A biography about the artist Caravaggio and the story how Bismarck created modern Germany are among those in the running.
Four other books will compete for the 20 thousand pound prize and the winner will be announced early next month.
13 Monday Jun 2011
Posted in History, Literacy News
It’s a hat-trick of wins for Michael Morpurgo.
His novel Shadow has won this year’s Red House children’s book award.
He’s become the only author to win the prize three times in the awards history.
The book tells the story of boy who is befriended by an army sniffer dog in Afghanistan.
Denny Bradbury Books 