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2007 Man Booker Prize WinnerThe 2007 Man Booker Prize, the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world, went to darkhorse contender Anne Enright for her novel, The Gathering, which has brought the Irish writer comparisons to Joan Didion, Alice Munro, Don DeLillo, and many others. The rest of the 2007 shortlist: ›See present and past Booker winners and nominees Newbery and Caldecott WinnersThe American Library Association announced its 2007 children's book awards on January 22, including the biggest children's prizes of the year, the Newbery Medal for literature and the Caldecott Medal for illustration. This year's winners: |
2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Al GoreOn October 12, the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former vice president Al Gore. See our list of books by, about, and introduced by Gore, as well as the works of these other recent Peace Prize laureates: Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel AwardThe 30th annual First Novel Award, jointly sponsored by Amazon.ca and Books in Canada, was awarded on October 4 to Madeleine Thien for Certainty. See our complete list of previous winners and nominees, including such international stars as Michael Ondaatje, Rohinton Mistry, and Carol Shields. The Audie AwardsThe 2007 Audie Awards for the best audiobooks of the year were announced on June 1. See all the winners, including the Audiobook of the Year, The Bible Experience, a star-studded production of the New Testament. |
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