Literary Prizes & Book Awards Calendar 2008

A month by month guide to literary prizes and book awards that Christchurch City Libraries records in our Literary Prizes pages.

January

• 1st Blue Ribbons previous year
• 3rd Costa Book Awards winners previous year
• 17th Coretta Scott King Award current year
• 17th John Newbery Medal current year
• 17th Randolph Caldecott Medal current year
• 22nd CWA current year (Cartier Diamond Dagger)
• 22nd National Book Critics Circle Awards previous year shortlist
• 30th RUSA Notable Books current year
• Stonewall current year

February

• Commonwealth Writers Prize regional winners - current year
• 21st PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction current year
• Storyline Notable NZ Books current year
• 26th NZ Post Children's Book Awards finalists - current year

March

• 1st Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize finalists - current year
• 3rd Awards of the Canadian Library Association shortlist current year
• 3rd National Book Critics Circle Awards previous year
• 13th Prize in Modern Letters 2008 next - biennial
• 13th The Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand Awards current year
  • Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award current year
  • Tom Fitzgibbon Award current year
  • Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book current year
  • Joy Cowley current year
• 15th shortlist PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction current year
• 17th David Cohen Prize (odd years) - next in 2009
• 18th Orange Prize for fiction longlist - current year
• 23rd Sir Julius Vogel Awards - current year
• 28th Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize current year
• 31st Bram Stoker Awards previous year

April

• 2nd shortlist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award current year
• 8th Griffin poetry shortlist current year
• 8th Orange Broadband prize for new writers shortlist current year
• 8th Pulitzer current year
• 10th Royal Society Prizes for Science Books - Junior Prize shortlist - current year
• 15th Orange shortlist for fiction - current year
• 19th Young Reader's Choice Award (US and Canada) current year
• 24th Orange shortlist for new writers - current year
• 27th Nebula Awards for Science Fiction previous year except Grandmaster

May

• 1st Edgar Allan Poe current year
• 5th BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist - current year
• 11th Crime Writers’ Association Awards current year - Diamond Dagger
• 2nd Royal Society Prizes for Science Books shortlist - current year
• 21st NZ Post Children's Book Awards - current year
• 22nd Awards of the Canadian Library Association current year
• 20-27th overall winner Commonwealth Writers Prize - current year
• 25th James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist previous year
• 31st Lambda literary awards previous year

June

• 2nd Man Booker International Prize next 2009
• 4th Boston Globe-Horn current year
• 4th Griffin poetry current year
• 4th Orange current year
• 10th Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalists - current year
• 12th International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award current year
• 13th CLPE Poetry Award current year
• 14th BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction current year
• 16th Royal Society Prizes for Science Books current year and Royal Society Prizes for Science Books - Junior Prize shortlist - current year
• 19th Betty Trask Awards current year
• 22nd Carnegie Medal current year
• 22nd Kate Greenaway Medal current year

July

• 10th CWA current year (Non fiction dagger is now a biennial award and will next be presented in 2008 Prize: TBA)
• 13th Pikihuia shortlist current year
• 21st Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalists - current year

August

• 10th Man Booker Prize longlist - current year
• 19th Children's Book Council Book of Australia Awards current year
• 25th Guardian First book longlist - current year
• 25th James Tait Black Memorial Prize previous year
• 29th Nielsen Book Data Bookseller current year

September

• 1 Hugo Awards for Science Fiction current year
• LIANZA Awards announced at LIANZA Conference
• 15th Pikihuia
• 18th Prime Minister's awards for literary achievement (current year)
• 19th Man Booker Prize shortlist - current year
• 20th FT Goldman Sachs shortlist - current year
• 22 Sept Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist (biennial - 2008)
• 28th Sept Anthony Awards
• 30 Sept Guardian Children's Fiction Award current year

October

• Nobel Prize for Literature
• 10th Betty Gilderdale Current year
• 12th shortlist National book awards current year
• 13th BNZ Katherine Mansfield
• 14th Man Booker Prize longlist - current year
• 14th Glen Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters shortlist 2008
• 24th John Llewellyn Rhys prize shortlist previous year
• 27th Dylan Thomas Prize (biennial - 2008)
• end of Oct Crime Writers’ Association Awards
• FT Goldman Sachs current year
• CWA current year

November

• The next Landfall Essay Competition has been announced. Entries for the sixth Landfall Essay Competition will be accepted from 1 May 2008. The closing date for receipt of entries is 5 pm, Thursday 12 June 2008. The winning entry will be published in the November 2008 issue.
• 3rd Guardian First book shortlist - current year
• 8th Prix Goncourt
• 7th International Impac (shortlist for next year)
• 16th National Book Awards current year
• 21st Costa Book Awards shortlists - Previous year
  Shortlists announced in all five categories (First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children's Book)
• 28th Prime Ministers Awards
• 29th John Llewellyn Rhys prize previous year

December

• 5th Guardian First book current year
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize previous year