The 2006 Pulitzer winners have been announced:
FICTION: Geraldine Brooks, March
DRAMA: Declined to give award.
HISTORY: David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
GENERAL NONFICTION: Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
BIOGRAPHY: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus
POETRY: Claudia Emerson, Late Wife
MUSIC: Yehudi Wyner, “Chiavi in Mano.”
The Orange Prize longlist has been announced. Among the nominees: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Ali Smith’s The Accidental, Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch, Meg Wolitzer’s The Position and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep.
They haven’t been posted at papers are reporting the following winners:
FICTION: The March by E.L. Doctorow
MEMOIR: Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine de Plessix Gray
NONFICTION: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (Keith Gessen: translator)
BIOGRAPHY: American Promtheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
CRITICISM: The Undiscovered Country by William Logan
POETRY: Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
From Gwenda “Don’t Call Me Lazenby, But Daniel Craig is Okay” Bond, comes this year’s Nebula Award nominees:
NOVEL:
Geoff Ryman, Air
Joe Haldeman, Camoflauge
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Jack McDevitt, Polaris
John C. Wright, Orphan of Chaos
NOVELLA:
“Clay’s Pride” by Bud Sparhawk
“Identity Theft” (available via PDF or DOC) by Robert J. Sawyer
“Left of the Dial” by Paul Witcover
“Magic for Beginners” by Kelly Link
“The Tribes of Bela” by Albert Cowdrey
NOVELETTE:
“The Faery Handbag” by Kelly Link
“Flat Diane” by Daniel Abraham
“Men Are Trouble” by Jim Kelly
“Nirvana High” by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
“The People of Sand and Slag” by Paolo Bacigalupi (who blew me away a few years ago with his fantastic short story “The Fluted Girl”)
SHORT STORY:
“Born-Again” by K.D. Wentworth
“The End of the World as We Know It” by Dale Bailey
“I Live With You” by Carol Emshwiller
“My Mother, Dancing” by Nancy Kress
“Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan
“Still Life With Boobs” by Anne Harris (This should win an award for best title!)
“There’s a Hole in the City” by Richard Bowes
[UPDATE: Thank you Perry and Abigail for filling in a few missing links to short stories available online!]
It’s not yet up at the PEN/Faulkner site, but E.L. Docotrow has won this year’s award for The March.