Book Award winners announced

Shelf Awareness

James Grant has won the 2015 Hayek Book Prize for The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash that Cured Itself (Simon & Schuster). He receives a $50,000 award and will deliver the annual Hayek lecture in New York in June.
"The Hayek Book Prize celebrates authors who best represent the principles of F.A. Hayek," Manhattan Institute president Larry Mone said. "James Grant's book not only represents those principles but does so by reflecting both the scholarship and universal nature of Hayek."
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Alyce Miller has won the first Ellen Gilchrist Prize in Short Fiction for her short story "Missing." Given biannually, the prize includes an award of $2,000 and the offer of publication of a collection of short stories, in book form, by China Grove Press.
"Missing" was published in the first edition of China Grove, the literary magazine published by China Grove Press..

Finalists have been announced for the £30,000 (about $45,270) Wellcome Book Prize, which recognizes a work of fiction or nonfiction that has "a central theme that engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness." The winner will be named April 29. This year's shortlisted titles are:

The Iceberg by Marion Coutts
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts
My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
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Dr. Glenn Berger has won the second annual Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, and his book The Schlepper and the Superstar: My Studio Days with Dylan, Jagger, Sinatra, and More will be published by Schaffner Press in early summer 2016.
"Glenn Berger's lively, colorful, and insightful memoir of working among the giants of the music industry is the perfect follow-up to Alice Fogel's Interval in capturing the essence of how music moves us, influences us and changes our lives," said publisher Timothy Schaffner.
The award celebrates the life of Schaffner's brother, Nicholas Schaffner, a poet, musician, biographer and esteemed music critic.