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Category Archives: Awards
Hennessy Literary Awards
Last night I was very proud to receive this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame Award.
With my agent Simon Trewin
The Hennessy Awards have been running for 41 years, celebrating the best new writers in the country. 20 years ago, in 1992, I was shortlisted for an award for my first published short story The Entertainments Jar, and this year I became the 10th recipient of the Career Achievement award, known as the ‘Hall of Fame’, which has previously been given to Dermot Bolger, Joseph O’Connor, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Frank McGuinness, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Neil Jordan and Sebastian Barry.
Noah Barleywater on the Carnegie
Very pleased that NOAH BARLEYWATER RUNS AWAY has been longlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s publishing in the UK. I was previously longlisted in 2007 for The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. The full longlist can be seen here.
UK Literacy Association Children’s Book Award
NOAH BARLEYWATER RUNS AWAY has made the longlist for this year’s UK Literacy Association Children’s Book of the Year. Hurrah! You can learn more about the awards and see the other titles on the longlist here.
Slovakian Prize
NOAH BARLEYWATER RUNS AWAY has won the Children’s Book of the Year Award. In Slovakia. 
IMPAC Award
162 novels later and we reached a verdict for this year’s Dublin International IMPAC Literary Award – Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin. Photos courtesy of Jason Clarke Photography.
Judges Susan Bassnett, Tessa Hadley, Winner Colum McCann, Lord Mayor Gerry Breen, Judges Nancy Huston, me and Michael Hoffman
Receiving my scroll to mark my judgeship of the 2011 Impac Award!
Sheffield Children’s Book Award
I’m very happy that NOAH BARLEYWATER RUNS AWAY has been shortlisted for this year’s Sheffield Children’s Book Award. The other 2 books on the shortlist are PUT OUT THE LIGHT by Terry Deary and BILLIONAIRE BOY by David Walliams. A few years ago, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS was also shortlisted for this prize, which has been running for over 20 years. More information on all the shortlisted books can be found here.
Trash
This strikes me as very odd. The Blue Peter Award, which always selects fantastic novels and writers for their shortlists, has dropped TRASH by Andy Mulligan from this year’s shortlist “because it contains scenes of violence and swearing that are not suitable for the younger end of our audience.”
What a shame. TRASH was one of the very best novels for younger readers published during 2010. Writing in The Gloss for their ‘Books of the Year’ round-up, I named it as one of my 4 favourite books of the year, calling it “a life-affirming story told in multiple voices and set in the slums and rubbish heaps of Manila. Often funny, more often very moving, this is one of the treasures of 2010’s young adult market.”
I have great respect for the Blue Peter Award and what it has done to bring great books to young readers but to effectively censor a novel – which is what they are doing – surely goes against the spirit of the award itself. The fact remains: TRASH is a brilliant book, it’s vibrant, exciting and incredibly well written and should be embraced, not condemned. Is there some swearing and violence? Well yes, there is. But there’s some swearing and violence in life too. And it never feels gratuitous or designed for controversy; it seems utterly real and appropriate to the subject matter. Very disappointing.
Irish Book Awards photo
A nice photo from last week’s Irish Book Awards, with Derek Hughes of Hughes & Hughes, and Emma Donoghue, to whom I had presented the Novel of the Year award a few minutes earlier for ‘Room’.
German Book Prize
The German edition of THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE has been shortlisted for the ‘Leserpreis‘, a German award for the best novel of the year. And it’s a public vote! If you feel so inclined, you can vote for it here.
In Germany the novel is published by Arche-Atrium and titled DAS HAUS ZUR BESONDEREN VERWENDUNG.
Irish Book Awards
Presenting the Irish Novel of the Year Award
To the Mansion House last night for this year’s Irish Book Awards. President Mary McAleese gave a great speech to start the night and lots of very talented writers won awards. NOAH BARLEYWATER RUNS AWAY didn’t win the Children’s Book Award - well done Derek Landy! - but never mind, I had a great night anyway. Lots more photos from the night are on my facebook site – to see them just add me as a friend!
with Skippy Dies author Paul Murray
