Every January I award the Halifax Prize to books I’ve read in the past year in the categories of Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, and Catchall of Anything Written before 1800. This year the winners are strange: for the first time ever, the seventeenth century swept the Pre-1800 category; and Fiction is all kids’ and ya books. As always, books I knew going in were going to be great are pretty much excluded from competition, which is why Nabokov did not take the Fiction palm. Congratulations to 2014’s winners! Fiction Winner: E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (2014) Runner up: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee (1990) Hon. Men.: William Sleator, House of Stairs (1974) Non-fiction Winner: Agnes Repplier, In Our Convent Days (1905) Runner up: William Hanson, Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature (2002) Hon. Men.: W.W. Tarn, Antigonos Gonatus: King of Macedonia 276–239 B.C. (1913) Poetry Winner: Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol(1898) Runner up: Patricia Lockwood, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012) Hon. Men.: Thomas Wood Stevens, Westward under Vega: A Novel in Verse (1938) Before 1800 Winner: Nicholas Breton, Crossing of Prouerbs: Crosse-answeres and Crosse-humours (1616) Runner up: Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Commonly Presumed Truths (1646) Hon. Men.: John Donne, Biathanatos (1608)
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:23:22 +0000
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