Book award winners 2011

This page shows you who has won and point you to the pages where you can find out more including lists of great titles, reviews, and information on great authors.

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Man Booker Prize

This prize was established in 1969 and "promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year". There is also the Man Booker International Prize which takes place every other year, this was first awarded in 2005.

2011 winner for fiction 

The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes. Philip Roth won the international prize.

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Orange Prize for Fiction

Won this year by Téa Obreht for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife.

Celebrating women's fiction from around the world this prize was set up with the help of Orange in 1996 (originating from an concept founded a few years earlier) . There is a prize of £30,000 and an award called a "Bessie" for the winner.

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Desmond Elliott Prize

This prize for new fiction was established in 2007 in memory of Desmond Elliott who wanted to "enrich the careers of new writers".

The winner and the lists

• Winner: Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph

• The shortlist

• Longlist

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The People's Book Prize

Here are the winners for 2010/11

Three of the winners:

• Fiction : Making Shore by Sara Allerton
  
  

• Non-fiction : Eradicating Ecocide by Polly Higgins
  
  

• Children's : When I Dream of ABC by Henry Fisher

For more information visit their about us page...

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Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Organised by the Booktrust this prize was founded in 2008 and "aims to promote laughter and humour as a feel-good factor when reading, to draw attention to funny books as readable and enjoyable books and to reward authors and illustrators who write and illustrate books using humour." As with Roald Dahl's books they are expected to be picture books. The awards run in two categories, here are the winners...

The funniest book for children six and under :

Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently

The funniest book for children seven to fourteen :

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon

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Blue Peter book awards

The BBC's Blue Peter in conjunction with its Book Club runs a few different awards for children's books. The winners were chosen by a mixture of both adult and child judges.

Most fun story with pictures

• Winner: Lunatics and luck : The Raven mysteries by Marcus Sedgwick 

• Runners-up: Mr Gum and the cherry tree by Andy Stanton and  Alienography by Chris Ridell

Favourite story

• Winner: Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John 

• Runners-up: A web of air by Philip Reeve and Tall story by Candy Gourlay

Best book with facts

• Winner: Do Igloos Have Loos? by Mitchell Symons

• Runners-up:  How the World Works by Christiane Dorian and Beverley Young, and What you need to know: the world in facts stats and graphics
  
  

You can find out more...

View the Booktrust's list of several other prizes

Visit the Gateway to find sites listing several awards plus records of previous awards and prizes...

2010 winners