From today's New York Times, in their entirety:
"Kurt Andersen has won the 2007 David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction for his best-selling novel Heyday (Random House). Mr. Andersen, a columnist for New York magazine and host of Studio 360 on public radio, will receive $1,000.
"The Czech novelist Arnost Lustig has been named the eighth winner of the Franz Kafka award for literature, Agence France-Presse reported. Previous winners include Harold Pinter, Philip Roth and Haruki Murakami."
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Ian McEwan, J.K. Rowling, Khaled Hosseini and Francesca Simon took top honors at the Galaxy British Book awards. The Guardian reported that "the Nibbies, as they are usually known, are decided by various combinations of publishers, booksellers and the general public."
McEwan's On Chesil Beach won the Reader's Digest Author of the Year award. Rowling earned this year's Outstanding Achievement honor, adding it to her collection of four previous Nibbies. Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns earned the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year, "which puts the TV show's hugely popular book club choices to the public vote."
The Guardian also noted that the Children's Book of the Year category, which was won by Simon's Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman, attracted unusually intense media attention over the controversial shortlisting of Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book by Katie Price "because it is not all her own work."