Tag: literary prizes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s ‘official’ topic is Characters I’d Like to go on Vacation With. I’m afraid this had me stumped so I’ve gone off-piste (at least alluding to the vacation theme) with my own topic – Books I’ve Read That Have Won Literary Prizes.

1. The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction – The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
2. The Women’s Prize for Fiction – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
3. The Booker Prize – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
4. The Dylan Thomas Prize – God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
5. The Nobel Prize in Literature – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (prize awarded to author not single work)
6. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
7. The Goldsmiths Prize – The Long Take by Robin Robertson
8. The Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger – Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
9. Costa Book Awards (now defunct) – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
10. The ‘Nibbies’ Fiction Book of the Year – Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor