Award Winners

This is a guide to some of the award winning works of fiction published over the last few years. Selected are some of the most prestigious literary awards. The awards are generally only for writers of the country or area of origin of the award and for works published within that country.

The initials in brackets indicate the award the novel has won - key to awards.

Books held at Kapiti Coast District Libraries

          2009

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (CW)

Netherland - Joseph O'Neill (PF)

Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (PP)

2008

The secret scripture - Sebastian Barry (CBA)

The book of negroes - Lawrence Hill (CW)

Our horses in Eygpt - Rosemary Belben (JT)

Shadow country - Peter Matthiessen (NBA)

The white tiger - Aravind Adiga (MB)

The great man by Kate Christensen (PF)

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (PP)

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (KPR)

The road home by Rose Tremain (OP)

Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw (MNZ)

2007

Day - A L Kennedy (CBA)

Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (OP)

The gathering by Anne Enright (KPR)

Tree of smoke by Denis Johnson (NBA)

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (MNZ) (CW)

The road by Cormac McCarthy (PP)

Everyman by Philip Roth (PF)

2006

Restless by William Boyd (WA)

March by Geraldine Brooks (PP)

The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai (KPR)

The march by E. L. Doctorow (PF)

Blindsight by Maurice Gee (MNZ)

The secret river by Kate Grenville (CW)

On beauty by Zadie Smith (OP)

The hummingbird’s daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea



2005

   Maps for lost lovers by Nadeem Aslam (KPR)

   The sea by John Banville

   Tu by Patricia Grace (MNZ)

   War trash by Ha Jin (PF)

   Small island by Andrea Levy (CW)

   Saturday by Ian McEwan

   Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (PP)

   We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (OP)

   The accidental by Ali Smith (WA)