New Awarded Books - World Literary Awards

2003-03-01 Little, Brown

Soul Circus

George Pelecanos

Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos is an award-winning work.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2003-02-18 岩波書店

さすらいの孤児ラスムス (岩波少年文庫 105)

アストリッドリンドグレーン, エーリック・パルムクヴィスト, Astrid Lindgren, 尾崎義

The 1958 Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing is represented here by Astrid Lindgren’s Rasmus and the Vagabond. The journey of an orphaned boy and a vagabond becomes a story about searching for family.

Hans Christian Andersen Award

2003-02-17 Tor

HOMINIDS

ROBERT J. SAWYER

ネアンデルタール人が文明を築いた別世界と現代の人類世界が交差する設定を通じて、文化・科学・倫理の対立と相互理解を描く。個人と集団のアイデンティティ、科学の役割、人種や文化の視点差が主題のハードSF。

Hugo Award

2003-02-04 Penguin Classics

Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)

George Bernard Shaw, Nicholas Grene, Dan H. Laurence

A play that examines personal transformation and social prejudice through language, class, and education. Using Eliza Doolittle’s ascent, it portrays the relationship between identity and speech with humor and sharp satire.

Nobel Prize in Literature

2003-02-01 Univ of California Pr

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 9)

Neil Smith

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith is a nonfiction work that traces history and social structures.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2003-02-01 Pan Books Ltd

Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You

Paul Farley

A debut poetry collection that catches urban life and its small disturbances with wit and sharp observation.

Forward Prizes for Poetry

2003-01-20 Faber & Faber

Dart

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald gathers the voices of people along the River Dart and follows the river from source to sea in a book-length poem. Nature, labor, oral memory, and local history overlap in a rhythm that moves like water.

T. S. Eliot Prize

2003-01-16 Editions Gallimard

La Princesse de Mantoue: Roman

Marie Ferranti

A novel that follows the relationship between art and power through Andrea Mantegna's making of the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and the life of Barbara of Brandenburg.

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française