The winners are:
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)The Instructions by Adam Levin (McSweeney's)
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled)
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr (Akashic)
Also just announced: The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal has been awarded the 2011 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. The award is given "for a distinguished work of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place."The shortlist for the prize included:
The Butterfly Isles by Patrick Barkham (Granta)
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph (Fourth Estate)
Landed by Tim Pears (Heinemann)
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford (Faber)
