Believer Book Award
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Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer
magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.
Blue Ribbon = winner
2010 James Hynes
, Next
2009 Percival Everett
, I Am Not Sidney Poitier
2008 Emily Perkins
, Novel About My Wife
2007 Tom McCarthy
, Remainder
2006 Cormac McCarthy
, The Road
2005 Sesshu Foster
, Atomik Aztex
2004 Sam Lipsyte
, Home Land
The Believer (magazine)
The Believer is a United States literary magazine that also covers other arts and general culture. Founded and designed in 2003 by the writer and publisher Dave Eggers, it is edited by Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Ed Park...
magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.
Winners and shortlist
The year below denotes when the books were published; the award is announced the following year. Thus below, the inaugural 2004 books were announced in early to mid 2005.Blue Ribbon = winner
2010 James Hynes
James Hynes
James Hynes is an American novelist. He was born in Okemos, Michigan, and grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan. He lived for many years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas...
, Next
- Danielle DuttonDanielle DuttonDanielle Dutton is an American writer.- Life :Dutton grew up in central California. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History and then lived for a year in England before moving to Los Angeles where she worked in music management. She later studied writing at...
, Sprawl - Kira Henehan, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
- Grace KrilanovichGrace KrilanovichGrace Krilanovich is an American author. Her first novel, The Orange Eats Creeps was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2010...
, The Orange Eats Creeps - Paul MurrayPaul Murray (author)Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Skippy Dies.-Biography:Murray was born in Dublin in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama in UCD and a teacher mother. Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would...
, Skippy DiesSkippy DiesSkippy Dies is a 2010 tragicomic novel by Paul Murray. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Plot:...
2009 Percival Everett
Percival Everett
Percival Everett is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.-Life:Everett lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, novelist Danzy Senna and their two sons....
, I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- Christopher Miller, The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
- Mary RobisonMary RobisonMary Cennamo Robison is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published four collections of stories, and four novels, including her 2001 novel Why Did I Ever, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her most recent novel, released in 2009, is One D.O.A., One...
, One D.O.A., One on the Way - Blake ButlerBlake Butler (author)-Books:Butler is the author of the novella Ever, released in January 2009 by Calamari Press, and the novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas, from Featherproof Books. His book There Is No Year was published in 2011.-Commentary on his works:...
, Scorch Atlas - Padgett PowellPadgett PowellPadgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto , was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker. Powell has written four more novels—including Edisto Revisited , a sequel to his debut, Mrs...
, The Interrogative Mood
2008 Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins (novelist)
Emily Perkins is a New Zealand author.Perkins first won attention in 1996 with her first collection of stories, Not Her Real Name and Other Stories...
, Novel About My Wife
- Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else
- Mary RuefleMary RuefleMary Ruefle is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published eleven collections of poetry, most recently, Selected Poems...
, The Most of It - John OlsonJohn Olson (poet and writer)John Olson is an American poet and novelist. Born August 23, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Olson has lived for many years in Seattle, Washington. He has published eight collections of poetry and two novels, including Souls of Wind, nominated for the 2008 Believer Book Award...
, Souls of Wind - Jim KrusoeJim KrusoeJim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His stories and poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, BOMB, Iowa Review, Field, North American Review, American Poetry Review, and Santa Monica Review, which he founded in 1988...
, Girl Factory - Tod WodickaTod WodickaTod Wodicka is an American author residing in Berlin. He graduated from the University of Manchester in the UK...
, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well - Toby OlsonToby Olson-Life:Through high school and his four years in the Navy as a surgical technician, he lived in California, Arizona, and Texas.He graduated from Occidental College and Long Island University....
, Tampico - Shannon Burke, Black Flies
2007 Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy (writer)
-Life and work:Tom McCarthy is a writer and conceptual artist. He was born in 1969 and lives in central London. McCarthy grew up in Greenwich, south London and was educated at Dulwich College and later New College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He lived in Prague, Berlin and...
, Remainder
- Jesse BallJesse BallJesse Ball is an American poet and novelist. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings.-Education and Early Interests:...
, Samedi the Deafness - Gerard DonovanGerard DonovanGerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist, photographer and poet currently living in Plymouth, England, working as a lecturer at the University of Plymouth....
, Sunless - Steve EricksonSteve EricksonStephen Michael Erickson is an American novelist, essayist and film critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Award in Literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation., and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop...
, ZerovilleZerovilleZeroville is a 2007 novel by Steve Erickson on film's upheaval in the 1970s. It has been translated into French, Italian, and other languages. It was named one of the best novels of the year by Newsweek, the Washington Post BookWorld and the Los Angeles Times Book Review among others, and in... - Elizabeth Hand, Generation LossGeneration Loss-Reception:*The Washington Post states that the "portrayal of gritty suffering is as strong as its fantastical elements" -Awards:*It won the first Shirley Jackson Award.*Shortlisted for the Believer Book Award.-External links:**...
- Alain Mabancko, African Psycho
- Miranda Mellis, The Revisionist
- Lydie SalvayreLydie SalvayreLydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist....
, The Power of Flies - Selah Saterstrom, The Meat and Spirit Plan
- Joseph Weisberg, An Ordinary Spy
2006 Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...
, The Road
The Road
The Road is a 2006 novel by the American author Cormac McCarthy.The Road may also refer to:* The Road , a 2001 Kazakhstani film* The Road , a 2009 film adaptation of the McCarthy novel...
- Reader and writer survey of best books
2005 Sesshu Foster
Sesshu Foster
Sesshu Foster is an American poet.He has taught composition and literature in East LA since 1985, and has also taught at the University of Iowa, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Jack Kerouac School's Summer Writing Program.He was in residence...
, Atomik Aztex
- Trinie Dalton, Wide Eyed
- Aimee BenderAimee BenderAimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.-Biography:Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at University of...
, Willful Creatures - John WrayJohn Wray (novelist)John Henderson , better known by his pen name John Wray, is a novelist and regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Born in Washington, D.C., of an American father and Austrian mother, he is a citizen of both countries...
, Canaan's Tongue - Tom BissellTom BissellTom Bissell is a journalist, critic, and fiction writer, originally from Escanaba, Michigan and currently based in Portland, Oregon.-Life:...
, God Lives in St. Petersburg
2004 Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...
, Home Land
- Michelle de KretserMichelle de KretserMichelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.She was educated in Melbourne and Paris, and published her first novel, The Rose Grower in 1999...
, The Hamilton CaseThe Hamilton CaseThe Hamilton Case is a 2003 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser. The book won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Encore Award . The work centres around the lives of the somewhat eccentric Obeysekere family, in particular Sam, and the 1930s setting explores themes of colonization in... - Lucy EllmannLucy EllmannLucy Ellmann is an Anglo-American novelist who now lives in Scotland.Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann, and is married to the American writer Todd McEwen...
, Dot in the Universe - Selah Saterstrom, The Pink Institution
- Francisco GoldmanFrancisco GoldmanFrancisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at , the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez...
, The Divine Husband
External links
- Believer Book Award at LibraryThingLibraryThingLibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by individuals, authors, libraries and publishers....