ALA 2017 Spotlight: The Carnegie Medals Turn Six

ALA 2017 Spotlight: The Carnegie Medals Turn Six

When the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were first awarded in 2012, American Library Association leaders hoped to establish an award for adult books that would one day assume the prestige of the association's historic Newbery and Caldecott awards, the gold standards fo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Publishers Weekly 2017-06, Vol.264 (25), p.30
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Sprache:eng
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Awards & honors
Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
Desmond, Matthew
Doerr, Anthony (1973- )
Egan, Timothy
Enright, Anne
Fiction
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Librarians
Libraries
Library associations
Medals
Nguyen, Viet Thanh (1971- )
Nonfiction
Novels
Paretsky, Sara
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
Stevenson, Bryan
Tartt, Donna
Whitehead, Colson (1969- )
Writers
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Zusammenfassung:When the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were first awarded in 2012, American Library Association leaders hoped to establish an award for adult books that would one day assume the prestige of the association's historic Newbery and Caldecott awards, the gold standards for kids' books. The program will include Sara Paretsky as the featured speaker, as well as remarks from this year's fiction medalist Colson Whitehead ( The Underground Railroad) and nonfiction...
ISSN:0000-0019
2150-4008