Awards and Honors
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction – Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
- Canada Reads – Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down
- Man Booker Prize – Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
- Scotiabank Giller Prize – Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man
- Nobel Prize in Literature – Herta Müller
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, Daina Taimina
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Pierre Michon, Les Onze
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House
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