Awards and prizes

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• Blyton is voted UK's best-loved storyteller

  Aug 19 2008:

  Literary giants such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens left trailing in Costa Book Awards

• WAGs and war on terror invade dictionary

  Aug 14 2008:

  A new edition of Chambers Dictionary includes a slew of new words reflecting life in the 21st century

• Hosseini scores book club award hat-trick

  Aug 14 2008:

  The Kite Runner voted reading groups' book of the year for third time in a row

• Yiddish Policemen triumph at Hugo awards

  Aug 12 2008:

  Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union takes prestigious science fiction prize

• Voting opens in search for oddest book title

  Aug 8 2008:

  Forget the Booker of Bookers. The quest to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years has begun today

• Greer and James shortlisted for Australia's richest literary prize

  Aug 7 2008:

  Clive James and Germaine Greer are both in the running for the inaugural Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards, which will be judged by prime minister Kevin Rudd himself

• Why Birmingham rules the literary roost

  Aug 3 2008:

  Review: Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold Gaynor Arnold's debut, published next week, is a welcome addition to the Booker longlist

• In search of winning words

  Aug 3 2008:

  William Skidelsky: This year's Man Booker prize seems destined to be as controversial as usual

• Booker Prize longlist: From an enchantress to exploding mangoes: judges draw up longlist

  Jul 30 2008:

  Rushdie's venture into historical Medici meets Moghul romance divides critics

• Critic's view: The rise and rise of the first novel

  Jul 30 2008:

  Claire Armitstead: Every year more first novels seem to reach the Booker longlist

• Booker longlist boost for first-time novelists

  Jul 29 2008:

  Longlist passes over big names in favour of eclectic selection encompassing debuts, humour and thrillers

• Man Asian favours the Phillippines

  Jul 23 2008:

  The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize features a strong showing from Filipino writers

• Home alone... almost

  Jul 20 2008:

  Alex Clark's necessary isolation is not quite untouched thanks to cable, satellite, the internet... oh, and the imaginary television interviewers

• The browser

  Jul 20 2008:

  Curtains for Samuel? | In bed with the Archbish

• Theakston's Crime award goes to mainstream first novel

  Jul 18 2008:

  Crime novel panel breaks the wall between genre and mainstream fiction by rewarding Costa winner Stef Penny

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