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Literary Prizes

We make every effort to keep the current winners of major literary prizes in stock. Among the prizes we follow are the Nobel Prize for literature, the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

We also carry a wide selection of classic children's literature that has received either the Caldecott or Newbery Medal over the years.

The list below contains the most recent literary prizes:


2005 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

Harold Pinter

British playwright whose works include The Birthday Party, No Man's Land, The Homecoming, and Ashes to Ashes.


2005 Booker Prize Winner

The Sea by John Banville


2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Fiction

March by Geraldine Brooks

Non-fiction

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins

Poetry

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson

Biography

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

History

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky


2005 National Book Award Winners

Fiction

Europe Central by William Vollmann

Poetry

Migration: New and Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin

Young Adult Literature

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall

Non-fiction

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion


2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

Fiction

The March by E.L. Doctorow

Non-fiction

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Biography

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Autobiography

Them by Francine du Plessix Gray

Poetry

Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

Criticism

The Undiscovered Country by William Logan


2006 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka


2006 Newbery Medal Winner

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins