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Winners of the 2000 National Book Awards The winners were announced at an awards ceremony and dinner on November 15 at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis Hotel. A total of 835 titles were submitted by 198 publishers and imprints. The National Book Foundation also presented Ray Bradbury the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.	Winners of the 2000 National Book Awards Nobel Prize in Literature IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards New England Book Awards More Awards
For Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) For Nonfiction: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking Penguin) For Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions, Ltd.) For Young People's Literature: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan (HarperCollins Children's Books)
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2000 Nobel Prize in Literature - October 12, 2000 Gao Xingjian, an exiled dissident author whose works are banned in his native China, won the Nobel Prize in literature. Cited by the Swedish Academy for his "bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity," Gao, 60, is a survivor of the Cultural Revolution and the first Chinese to win the award in its 100-year history. past winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - May 9, 2000 Congratulations to Nicola Barker, winner of the 2000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel Wide Open. This 34 year old British writer has also authored two collections of stories -- Love Your Enemy and Heading Inland. "Wide Open is word perfect, witty and ironic.....The author's focus on marginal lives and on the importance of the dispossesed and the apparently mad persuade us finally that Wide Open possesses a manic energy and taut eloquence worthy of a large, serious and global readership." -- The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award panel
The New England Book Awards Presented by the New England Booksellers Association, this year's New England Book Award winners are: Fiction Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Lily of the Valley and Hoopi Shoopi Donna Nonfiction John Hanson Mitchell, A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard and Trepassing: An Inquiry Into the Private Ownership of Land Children's Marcia Sewall, The Green Mist and Thunder from the Clear Sky New England Publisher of the Year Steerforth Press

Browse All the Award Winners We've put together lists of a number of these literary awards where you can find the latest award winning titles as well as look back at past winners. These literary prizes celebrate the finest literature published in the English-speaking world. Many of the prize-winning books have gone on to be enduring classics -- certainly worth reading! They also make great gifts to give a literary friend or relative. The Booker Prize -- England's premier literary award The Caldecott Medal -- Children's picture books The Hugo Award -- The oldest science fiction award The National Book Award -- One of America's most prestigious literary achievements The National Book Critics Circle Award  The New England Book Awards -- From the New England Booksellers Association The Newbery Award -- Many of the best books ever written for children and young adults. The Nobel Prize for Literature -- A lifetime achievement The PEN/Faulkner Award -- Writers judge their peers The Pulitzer Prize for Literature Other Awards...

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