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The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards have announced their winners, including Powerless by Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) in the YA category and A Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee (Random House Children’s Books) as the overall winner.

The Awards “discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.”

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The Associazione World SF Italia announced the finalists for the 2024 Premio Ernesto Vegetti, an Italian SF award.

The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the 2024 winners of its annual book awards.

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.

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The Bookseller has announced the winners of the 2024 British Book Awards, also known as The Nibbies, including several works of genre interest:

Fiction

The shortlist for the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced:

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) is the winner of the AUD$50,000 2024 Stella Prize.

Named for Stella Maria Sarah “Miles” Franklin, the prize celebrates literature by Australian women and non-binary writers.

For more information, including the complete shortlist and longlist, see the official Stella Prize site.

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“Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma” by R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/21) won the 2023 Media Award, presented by The Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics (MIFRE).

The Award seeks to “identify and illuminate fictional creations that demonstrate societies where humans and conscious machines live, cooperate and thrive together.” Works in any medium from any time are eligible.

For more information, visit the MIFRE website.

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Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and  Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House) were finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category.

The award is given for “distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.”

For more, see the Pulitzer website.

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The six-title shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and includes V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night (Random House).

Brother Alive by Zain Khalid (Grove Atlantic) and We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra House) are among the honorees of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, “a se­­lection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.”

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