Believer Book Award
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Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year.[1] A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.
Winners and shortlist
The year below denotes when the books were published; the award is announced the following year. Thus below, the inaugural 2004 books were announced in early to mid-2005.
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner
2004[2]
- Sam Lipsyte, Home Land[3]
- Michelle de Kretser, The Hamilton Case
- Lucy Ellmann, Dot in the Universe
- Selah Saterstrom, The Pink Institution
- Francisco Goldman, The Divine Husband
2005[4]
- Sesshu Foster, Atomik Aztex[5]
- Trinie Dalton, Wide Eyed
- Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
- John Wray, Canaan's Tongue
- Tom Bissell, God Lives in St. Petersburg
2006
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road[6]
- Reader and writer survey of best books[6]
2007[7]
- Tom McCarthy, Remainder[8]
- Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness
- Gerard Donovan, Sunless
- Steve Erickson, Zeroville
- Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
- Alain Mabancko, African Psycho
- Miranda Mellis, The Revisionist
- Lydie Salvayre, The Power of Flies
- Selah Saterstrom, The Meat and Spirit Plan
- Joseph Weisberg, An Ordinary Spy
2008[9]
- Emily Perkins, Novel About My Wife[10][11]
- Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else
- Mary Ruefle, The Most of It
- John Olson, Souls of Wind
- Jim Krusoe, Girl Factory
- Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
- Toby Olson, Tampico
- Shannon Burke, Black Flies
2009[12]
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier[13]
- Christopher Miller, The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
- Mary Robison, One D.O.A., One on the Way
- Blake Butler, Scorch Atlas
- Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood
2010[14]
- James Hynes, Next[15]
- Danielle Dutton, Sprawl
- Kira Henehan, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
- Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps
- Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
- Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station [18][19][20]
- Jesse Ball, The Curfew
- Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
- Lars Iyer, Spurious
- Michelle Latiolais, Widow
2012[21]
- Tamara Faith Berger, Maidenhead [22]
- Barbara Browning, I'm Trying to Reach You
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book One)
- Jim Krusoe, Parsifal
- Sergio de la Pava, A Naked Singularity
References
- ↑ "The Believer Book Award", The Millions, March 3, 2011
- ↑ 2004 shortlist
- ↑ 2004 winner
- ↑ 2005 shortlist
- ↑ 2005 winner
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 2006 reader and writer survey
- ↑ 2007 shortlist
- ↑ 2007 winner
- ↑ 2008 shortlist
- ↑ 2008 winner
- ↑ "Emily Perkins Wins Fifth Annual Believer Book Award". Poets & Writers. March 23, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ 2009 shortlist
- ↑ 2009 winner
- ↑ 2010 shortlist
- ↑ 2010 winner
- ↑ 2011 shortlist
- ↑ Jaesung Lee (March 1, 2011). "The Believer's book award finalists include Grace Krilanovich". LA Times. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ 2011 winner
- ↑ "Small Presses Dominate Believer Book Prize Shortlist". Poets & Writers. March 5, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ "Heather Christle and Ben Lerner Win Believer Awards". Poets & Writers. May 1, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.believermag.com/issues/201303/?read=believer_book_award
- ↑ Mark Medley (April 29, 2013). "Tamara Faith Berger wins The Believer Book Award". National Post. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
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