Awards

Book Cover Image. Title: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Author: by Stephen  Greenblatt
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Stephen Greenblatt's innovative, thrilling tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance took this year's National Book Award prize for nonfiction.
What to Read?
Hand-picked by our booksellers, these titles all have one thing in common: great writing, from authors at the start of their careers.
Book Cover Image. Title: The Sense of an Ending, Author: by Julian  Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sense of an Ending. Barnes, one of Britain's most critically acclaimed novelists, was previously nominated for Flaubert's Parrot in 1984, England, England in 1998, and Arthur and George in 2005. 

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer (b.1931). In the words of the Academy, "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."