PRIZEWINNERS

FEAST your eyes on some of these recent literary prizewinners:

Disobedience (2006: 2006 Orange Prize for New Writers) / Naomi Alderman
The Secret River (2005: 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel, 2006 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award/Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) / Kate Grenville
Utterly Monkey (2005: winner of the 2006 Betty Trask Prize for Fiction) / Nick Laird
Saturday (2005: 2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction) / Ian McEwan
The Ballad of Desmond Kale (winner of the 2006 Miles Franklin Literary Award) (2005) / Roger McDonald
Out Stealing Horses / (2003; 2005: 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) / Per Petterson
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005: winner of the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction) / James Shapiro
On Beauty (2005: 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction) / Zadie Smith
The Master (2004: 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; 2004 Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction) / Colm Toibin