NEWS
Sadie Jones' debut novel THE OUTCAST is on the shortlist for the Orange Prize 2008 and the Desmond Elliott longlist.
WHAT I WAS, the third novel by Meg Rosoff, is on the 2008 Carnegie Prize shortlist. Her second novel JUST IN CASE was the 2007 winner.
MOSQUITO by Roma Tearne is on the shortlist for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2008 and for the Kiriyama Prize, which is awarded annually to books published in the US and Canada www.kiriyamaprize.org
Karen Armstrong is one of the three winners of the internationally-prestigious TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Award, to be presented in California in 2008. She is "one of the most provocative and original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world...In the post-9/11 world, she is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding." ttp://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/162
She has also been awarded a First Decoration of Art and Literature by the government of the Arab Republic, the first time such an honour has been given to a Western woman. She is also to be the recipient of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal in 2008, awarded by the Franklin and Elenor Roosevelt Institution for her commitment to freedom of religion and conscience.
Jeanne Willis' WHO'S IN THE LOO is the
Sheffield Children's Book Award 2007 Overall Winner.
DELIZIA! by John Dickie has been nominated for a 2007 Andre Simon Award.
Ursula Buchan's book GARDEN PEOPLE has won the Garden Writers' Guild Enthusiast's Book of the Year Award for 2007.
Matt Ridley's biography of FRANCIS CRICK has been awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize by the American History of Science Society.
BEFORE I DIE by Jenny Downham has been selected for the Publishers Weekly Best of 2007 list in the Children's Fiction category and the 2007 Borders US Original Voices.
ENDYMION SPRING by Matthew Skelton has been shortlisted for the 2008 Ontario Library Association Red Maple Award.
Lauren St John's THE WHITE GIRAFFE has won the Calderdale Book Award, the Sefton Super Reads and the Stockport Book Award and has been shortlisted for a number of other regional awards.
The International Centre for Nursing Ethics (ICNE) has announced that Claire Bertschinger, author of MOVING MOUNTAINS, is a joint winner of the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2007. The awards are presented to any nurse in recognition of an outstanding commitment to human rights and exemplifying the essence of nursing’s philosophy of humanity. As the nominations for the award are open to all nurse practitioners and the winners are chosen by an international committee, this award is unique in the field of nursing.
Mende Nazer, author of SLAVE, has been nominated for the Emma Humphreys Prize www.emmahumphreys.org. Commemorative awards are made annually to women and groups who have done exceptional work to combat violence against women and children, and have raised awareness of this issue, whether through writing, campaigning or activism. The aim of the individual prize and the group award is to recognise and reward outstanding and often unsung contributions to the fight against violence against women and children.
Damien Lewis, co-author of SLAVE, has been awarded the One World Popular Features Award for his war reporting from Sudan for the Mail on Sunday Live Magazine, in conflict-torn Darfur. From the Award Citation: "Damien Lewis showed real journalistic commitment to tell the story of what is one of the greatest human tragedies of our time. After 40 visits to Sudan in ten years, Damien Lewis has done just that by revealing the refugees epic six months walk to find shelter ..."