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SUSAN BRIGDEN and CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN have been awarded the 2013 Wolfson History Prize.
Described as "masterly" in the Literary Review, Susan's Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest, published by Faber, is a biography of the first modern voice in English poetry. Examining material from previously unseen archives, letters diaries, newspaper reports, radio broadcasts and popular songs, Christopher's book Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy, published by The Bodley Head, examines the rise of Fascist Italy.
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Award-winning author ANNABEL PITCHER has picked up the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, as well as the Teenage Fiction Category Prize, for her second novel Ketchup Clouds.
Her first, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, won the Branford Boase Award and a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Dylan Thomas Prize, a Galaxy Award, the Guardian Children's Book Award and the Red House Children's Book Award.
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CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN's Fascist Voices has won History Book of the Year at this year's Political Books of the Year Awards.
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SALLY GARDNER's Maggot Moon has won the Costa Children's Book Award 2012. Published by Hot Key Books, it's a powerful story of love and friendship. Dyslexic Standish Treadwell, living in a cruel dystopian state, strikes out for freedom in an act of sabotage.
Sally's previous awards include the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award for I, Coriander.
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ELEANOR UPDALE's adventure story Johnny Swanson is one of the winners of The Fantastic Book Awards 2012, organized by the Lancashire Library Services. The aim of the Awards is to support reading for pleasure and enjoyment by introducing newly published fiction titles to upper Key Stage 2 pupils. The children read and review new books and the winners are chosen by them. It's great to hear Johnny Swanson described as "What a fab book!"
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The first Teen category prize awarded by Waterstones at its 2012 Children's Book Prize ceremony has gone to JENNY DOWNHAM for You Against Me, her uncompromising novel of teenage love and family loyalty. The judges said "We awarded Jenny Downham's You Against Me the prize for 'Best Book for Teenagers' for its unique story, sensitively told. Downham is not afraid to tackle risky, topical themes, and she does so with poise and skill."
Photograph © Rolf Marriott 2007
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FRAN ASHCROFT is to receive the Global Award at the 14th Annual L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards. The $100,000 award celebrates the outstanding achievements of women in science and is recongnized as one of the premier international science awards. Fran has been chosen for her work in advancing our understanding of insulin secretion and neonatal diabetes.
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URSULA BUCHAN has been awarded Garden Columnist of the Year by the Garden Media Guild, for her columns in The Spectator. The judges said that "one columnist stood out for the consistent high quality of her writing and an unwavering tenacity to fully explore her topics, succinctly presenting carefully constructed arguments to an audience she clearly understands. She has maintained this standard over a quarter of a century under six successive editors and so, in the year that she finally retires from The Spectator, we are delighted to present the award to Ursula Buchan."
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CATHERINE HALL has beaten authors including Coim Tóibín and Jackie Kay to this year's Green Carnation Prize for her second novel The Proof of Love.
The prize celebrates writing by LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) authors. It attracted some controversy earlier in the year for not including Alan Hollinghurst, Philip Hensher or Ali Smith on its shortlist.
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