Book News: Langum, Kafka, and Galaxy British Book Awards Presented
Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 4/16/2008 11:52:00 AM
- Kurt Andersen wins Langum historical fiction prize
- Arnost Lustig takes Kafka award for lit
- Ian McEwan, J.K. Rowling, and Khaled Hosseini top dogs at Galaxy British Book Awards
New Yorkmagazine columnist Kurt Andersen has won the $1000 David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction for his best-selling novel Heyday (Random). The Czech novelist Arnost Lustig is the eighth winner of the Franz Kafka award for literature, joining such distinguished company as Harold Pinter, Philip Roth, and Haruki Murakami.
Britain’s Guardian reports that Ian McEwan, J.K. Rowling, and Khaled Hosseini took top honors at the Galaxy British Book awards. McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (Talese: Random) won the Reader’s Digest Author of the Year award, while Rowling earned this year’s Outstanding Achievement honor. Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns (Riverhead) took the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year.
