Thursday, October 30, 2014

Nation Awards

Nation
  Terry Pratchett
404 Pages


     Nation is an adventurous book accompanied by comedy and thoughtfulness. In my opinion, so far it does not seem to have a very deep moral. I think it was written more for entertainment purposes. I am on page 305 and I am very much enjoying it.
   
     It was written by a popular English writer, Terry Pratchett. He has won many awards but unfortunately will not be able to write much more because he has caught the disease Alzheimers.

Awards & nominations:
    This book has won many awards and nominations including:

  • Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
  • Carnegie Medal
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature
     It has won many more though. The one I will pick to talk about is the Guardian Children's Fiction 
PrizeIt is an award that is awarded to books published in the U.K. for children or young adults. It
 awards books in yearly intervals. 
     Your (British) publishers apply your book for the award. You pay 25 pounds and give one coy of the
book as your fee. Some authors must publish their first chapters online and cooperate with the Guardian
Children's Fiction Prize summer program. Basically to be interviewed a lot. Then the  Guardian Children's Fiction 
Prize decides the winner. He won this award in 2009. 




  • 1 comment:

    1. Well written and a lot of text! I hope you will like the book! Enjoy the reading!

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