All shall have prizes

    Some recent literary prize-winners you may have missed hearing about:

Betty Trask Awards: (among others) Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day and My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher (post on it - including extract read by David Tennant - here).

Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography: How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson.

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor.

Ondaatje Prize (we talked about it here): The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya.

Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration: A Monster Calls (based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd) Patrick Ness & Jim Kay.

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction: On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry.