"White Teeth White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones—and their families in London. The novel is centred around Britain's relationships with people from formerly colonised countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. The book won multiple honours, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. ""Time"" magazine included the"
"published in English, and in the UK within the calendar year. Source: Blue ribbon () = winner Guardian First Book Award The Guardian First Book Award was a literary award presented by ""The Guardian"" newspaper. It annually recognised one book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspaper had sponsored from 1965. The Guardian First Book Award was discontinued in 2016, with the 2015 awards being the last. The newspaper determined to change its book award after 1998, and during that year also hired Claire Armitstead as"
"Guardian First Book Award The Guardian First Book Award was a literary award presented by ""The Guardian"" newspaper. It annually recognised one book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspaper had sponsored from 1965. The Guardian First Book Award was discontinued in 2016, with the 2015 awards being the last. The newspaper determined to change its book award after 1998, and during that year also hired Claire Armitstead as literary editor. At the inaugural First Book Award ceremony in 1999, she said that she was informed"
"(1978) and ""Enduring Love"" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with ""Amsterdam"". ""Atonement"" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's Whitbread Book Award winning novel ""White Teeth"" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"", while three of his earlier books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize: ""Flaubert's"
"in the 2013 list. She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor on 1 September 2010. Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2006 and her novel ""White Teeth"" was included in ""Time"" magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ""White Teeth"" (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. Her most recent book is ""Feel Free"" (2018), a collection"
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"the Guardian Fiction prize. ""New York Times"" critic Robert Olen Butler called it ""brilliant, provocative and delightful"". Follow-up book ""The Gift of Stones"" is set in a village in the Neolithic period, while ""Quarantine"" is set in the Judean desert, 2000 years ago. The latter book won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1997, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was his 2013 novel ""Harvest"". He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999, for ""Being Dead"". Having lived many years in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife Pamela Turton, Crace now lives with her"
"Carnegie Medal, conferred by the Library Association (now CILIP), recognises the year's best children's or young adult's book. The Guardian Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of British children's writers and limited to fiction books. ""Stop the Train"" (Oxford, 2001) was ""Highly Commended"" for the Carnegie Medal. From 1988 to 2018, McCaughrean has eight times made the Carnegie shortlist and is one of only eight authors to have won it twice since its creation in 1936. Geraldine McCaughrean Geraldine McCaughrean ( ; born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170"
"Mays Anthology"". They attracted the attention of a publisher, who offered her a contract for her first novel. Smith decided to contact a literary agent and was taken on by A. P. Watt. Smith returned to guest-edit the anthology in 2001. Smith's début novel ""White Teeth"" was introduced to the publishing world in 1997, before it was completed. On the basis of a partial manuscript, an auction for the rights was begun; Hamish Hamilton won. Smith completed ""White Teeth"" during her final year at Cambridge. Published in 2000, the novel immediately became a best-seller. It was praised internationally and won"
"""The Cement Garden"" (1978) and ""Enduring Love"" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with ""Amsterdam"", while ""Atonement"" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's (born 1975) Whitbread Book Award winning novel ""White Teeth"" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"", while three of his earlier books had"
"The Last Guardian (novel) The Last Guardian is a 1989 British post-apocalyptic heroic fantasy novel written by bestselling British author David Gemmell. ""The Last Guardian"" is set in the same world as ""Wolf in Shadow"", but aged by two years. The Hellborn are no longer a threat, and all but two of the Guardians are dead. Additionally the largest source of Sipstrassi has been destroyed making the stones much harder to come by. Additional details of the world are also revealed as we learn by the end of the first novel that the city of Atlantis did exist, and sank"
"Jo Walton Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel ""Tooth and Claw"" in 2004. Her novel ""Ha'penny"" was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel ""Lifelode"" won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her novel ""Among Others"" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award,"
"the first time on the shortlist for the main award, and one judge threatened to resign if ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"" was declared the overall winner; it finished second, very close behind the winner of the poetry prize, Seamus Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic ""Beowulf"". In 2000, shortly before the publication of ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"", the previous three ""Harry Potter"" books topped ""The New York Times"" fiction best-seller list and a third of the entries were children's books. The newspaper created a new children's section covering children's books, including both fiction and"
"was awarded the Mildred L. Batchelder Award in 2009. In 1999, Uehashi published the second book of the ""Moribito"" series, . With this novel she received the Japanese Association of Writers for Children's award. In 2002 ""The Guardian series"" won the Iwaya Sazanami literature award, and in 2003, won another Japanese award from the Shogakukan publishing company. Then, in 2003, Uehashi wrote the novel , which received a Noma Children's Literature award. In 2006 she wrote the two volume , which she complemented with two more volumes in 2009. Both """" and the first two volumes of ""Kemono no Sōja"""
"Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ""White Teeth"" (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. Her most recent book is ""Feel Free"" (2018), a collection of essays. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Smith was born Sadie Smith in Willesden in the north-west London borough of Brent to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith. At the age of 14, she changed her name to"
"and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year. 2002: ""Dancing Naked"", written by Shelley Hrdlitschka. Orca Book Publishers. 2003: ""A Foreign Field"", written by Gillian Chan. Kids Can Press. 2004: ""The First Stone"", written by Don Aker. HarperCollins. 2005: ""More Than You Can Chew"", written by Marnelle Tokio. Tundra. 2006: ""The Blue Girl"", written by Charles De Lint. Viking. 2007: ""Shattered"", written by Eric Walters. Viking/Penguin. 2008: ""Keturah & Lord Death"", written by Martine Leavitt. Red Deer Press. 2009: ""Little Brother"", written by Cory Doctorow. Tor Books/H.B."
"with no single prize). Silver and bronze runners-up in each category were introduced in 1996 and designation of one overall winner was abandoned at the same time Eligible books were written by UK citizens and residents and published during the preceding year (not precisely the calendar year). The shortlists were selected by a panel of adult judges, finally chaired by Julia Eccleshare, children's books editor for ""The Guardian"". First, second, and third places were determined by British schoolchildren—at least finally, by vote of ""selected school classes"" The prize was discontinued in 2008 by what was described as a ""mutual"" decision"
"Emmet A. O'Brien. She has one child, a son, Alexander, born 1990. Jo Walton Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel ""Tooth and Claw"" in 2004. Her novel ""Ha'penny"" was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel ""Lifelode"" won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her novel ""Among Others"" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is one of only"
"to 2002 and three previously. Among the authors who won two Medals, Anne Fine was highly commended runner-up three times (1989, 1996, 2002) and Robert Westall twice (1990, 1992). The others were highly commended once each, except for Ness who postdates the distinction, Seven books have won both the Carnegie Medal and the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, which was inaugurated 1967. Only ""A Monster Calls"", written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals (2012). Only ""The Graveyard Book"" by Neil Gaiman (2009) has won both the Carnegie Medal and the"
"Smarties Prize. In December 1999, the third novel, ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"", won the Smarties Prize, making Rowling the first person to win the award three times running. She later withdrew the fourth ""Harry Potter"" novel from contention to allow other books a fair chance. In January 2000, ""Prisoner of Azkaban"" won the inaugural Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award, though it lost the Book of the Year prize to Seamus Heaney's translation of ""Beowulf"". The fourth book, ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"", was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8"
"in which the books were published, in 2014 the decision was made to name the award after the year in which the winners were announced, hence the 2014 award became the 2015 award. Winner: White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children’s Books) Winner: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Walker Books) Picture book winner: Cinderelephant by Emma Dodd (Templar Publishing) Fiction winner: A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton (Yearling) Picture book winner: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Children’s Books) Fiction winner: Demon Dentist by David Walliams (HarperCollins Children’s"
"cancer. It won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's book writers, and the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's ""best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit"". In 2005 she published a children's book, ""Meet Wild Boars"", which was illustrated by Sophie Blackall. ""Just in Case"", published in 2006, won the British Carnegie Medal and German Jugendliteraturpreis. ""What I Was"", her third novel was published in August 2007, followed by two more collaborations with Blackall: ""Wild Boars Cook"" and"
"3rd : ""The World of Tides"" by Bill Murray Winner: ""A Thing of Beauty"" by Hester Casey 2nd : ""The Weight of Feathers"" by Geraldine Mills 3rd : ""For Scrap"" by Gavin Corbett Winner: ""Valediction"" by Joe O'Donnell 2nd : ""Loser"" by Eileen Counihan 3rd : ""The Man With No Name"" by Gerry Boland Winner: ""Hay"" by Ciarán Folan 2nd : ""Home Help"" by Dolores Walsh 3rd : ""Romance"" by Alastair Hadden Winner: ""Fishing for Dreams"" by Joyce Russell 2nd : ""Silverfish"" by Eileen Lynch 3rd : ""Comfort"" by Sheila Mannix Winner: ""Orca"" by Austin Duffy 2nd : ""Platform 17"
"overly populist. Whether or not as a response to this, the 2012 jury strongly emphasised the value of literary quality and linguistic innovation as criteria for inclusion. The winner was Hilary Mantel, an early favourite, for her book ""Bring Up the Bodies"", the sequel to her novel ""Wolf Hall"", which won the award in 2009. Mantel became the first woman, and the first Briton, to win the prize twice. A strong challenger to Mantel was established writer Will Self, who was nominated for the first time. Other shortlisters included second-time nominee Tan Twan Eng, Deborah Levy, who returned from a"
"Seoige and O'Shea ran a short story and photograph competition. The top 14 writers were published in a book entitled ""Do The Write Thing"". The winner, Ellen McCarthy, from Waterford was signed by publishers Poolbeg and her debut novel, ""Guarding Maggie"" was released on 2 May 2008. Following superb reaction to ""Guarding Maggie"", Ellen's second novel, ""Guilt Ridden"" was released in January 2009. The second series began on 1 October 2007 and ran until 18 April 2008. In the second series, the programme took on a new look and added a live studio audience. As part of the new-look series,"
"Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognises one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It is conferred upon the author of the book by ""The Guardian"" newspaper, which established it in 1965 and inaugurated it in 1967. It is a lifetime award in that previous winners are not eligible. At least since 2000 the prize is £1,500. The shortlist of no more than four books and the winner are selected by three children's fiction writers, almost"
"""Guardian First Book Award"", established in 1999 as a successor to the ""Guardian Fiction Award"", which had run since 1965, and the ""Guardian Children's Fiction Prize"", founded in 1967. In recent years the newspaper has also sponsored the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye. The annual ""Guardian Student Media Awards"", founded in 1999, recognise excellence in journalism and design of British university and college student newspapers, magazines and websites. In memory of Paul Foot, who died in 2004, ""The Guardian"" and ""Private Eye"" jointly set up the Paul Foot Award, with an annual £10,000 prize fund, for investigative or campaigning journalism. The"
"Awards began as a single award in 1979, but was redefined in 1999 to create the Patricia Wrightson Prize (for writing for a primary school audience) and the Ethel Turner Prize (for a secondary school audience). The Ethel Turner Award was also given to all previous winners in the Children's Literature section. The Prize was first won, jointly, by Patricia Wrightson and Jenny Wagner in 1979. The most recent recipients are James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe for their co-authored novel ""One Thousand Hills"". Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky and writer Jaclyn Moriarty have each won the prize three times. The Patricia"
"namely The Piebald Princess, The Chestnut Chase, The Black Mare of Devils Hill and the last in the series, Decision Day for the Dapple Grey. By 1997 he had also penned a trilogy science fiction novels ""First Contact"", ""Second Nature"" and ""Third Degree"". His most recent work was another quiz book, this time to tie in with the film """". Nigel Robinson Nigel Robinson is an English author, known for such works as the ""First Contact"" series. Nigel was born in Preston, Lancashire and attended St Thomas More school. Robinson's first published book was ""The Tolkien Quiz Book"" in 1981,"
"review gave it a rating of 8.25 out of ten. Similarly the website Fantasy books review gave it a rating of 8.5 out of 10 with the comment ""even better than Wolf in Shadow"". The Last Guardian (novel) The Last Guardian is a 1989 British post-apocalyptic heroic fantasy novel written by bestselling British author David Gemmell. ""The Last Guardian"" is set in the same world as ""Wolf in Shadow"", but aged by two years. The Hellborn are no longer a threat, and all but two of the Guardians are dead. Additionally the largest source of Sipstrassi has been destroyed making"
"The award's main focus is to recognize the authors, male or female, who challenge and reflect shifting gender roles. Her other genre works also tended to focus on odd corners of the nineteenth century experiencing the unexpected or fantastic. Her second novel, ""The Sweetheart Season"" (1996) is a romantic comedy infused with historical and fantasy elements. Her 1998 collection, ""Black Glass"", won a World Fantasy Award, and her 2010 collection ""What I Didn't See, and Other Stories"" also won a World Fantasy Award. Her 2004 novel ""The Jane Austen Book Club"" become a critical and popular success including being on"
"the children real love for the first time. The twins' older brother Walter reappears in their lives periodically, usually causing trouble, including robbing the Scarlet Feather premises. When the insurance company suspects an inside job, Cathy and Tom are potentially ruined. The pair's battle for survival, and its impact on their respective relationships, is the key theme for the second half of the novel. ""Scarlet Feather"" won the 2001 WH Smith Book Award for Fiction. Scarlet Feather Scarlet Feather is a 2000 novel by Maeve Binchy. The novel follows the fortunes of Cathy Scarlet and her college friend, Tom Feather,"
"by Jim Carruth shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award. 2015: ""Lifeblood"" by Gill Fyffe shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. 2015: ""Jellyfish"" by Janice Galloway shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award. 2015: ""Fishnet"" by Kirsten Innes won the Guardian Not the Booker Prize. 2012: ""The Falling Sky"" by Pippa Goldschmidt was runner-up in the Dundee International Book Prize. 2012: ""Furnace"" by Wayne Price longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize and nominated for the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year. 2010: ""Gutter"""