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The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is an annual American children's book award that recognizes historical fiction. It was established in 1982 by Scott O'Dell , author of Island of the Blue Dolphins and 25 other children's books, in hopes of increasing young readers' interest in the history that shaped their nation and their world.
Holiday shared the 1974 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer.. In 2006, The Times re-submitted the opening chapter of the novel (along with fellow Booker winner In a Free State, by V. S. Naipaul) to 20 literary agents and publishers.
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The National Book Awards ( NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. [ 1][ 2] At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The National Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association ...
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels. A work of fiction is considered a novel by the organization if it is 40,000 words or longer; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths, in the categories of short story , novelette ...
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American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry. American Book Awards. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating ...