The book won two notable prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Other notable prizes included best supporting actor in a televised drama, for Damon Herriman of Secret City; best performance in a TV comedy, for Patrick Brammall of No Activity; and best supporting actress in a televised drama, for Celia Pacquola of The Beautiful Lie – an ABC miniseries reimagining Anna Karenina, starring Sarah Snook.
Perhaps the most notable literary prize in America, the National Book Awards are in their 63rd year.
With a notable double prize not only within reach, but practically in her grip, teen star Lydia Ko had to settle for half of the spoils — though it represented a significant piece of golf history, nonetheless.
Her first book, Lilla's Feast, was named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book.
The small-press surprises and unknown debutantes that have been a fixture of recent years are notably absent – though notable too is the prize's first crowd-funded long-listee, eco-activist Paul Kingsnorth's Old English tale of resistance to the Norman invasion.
Notable winners of the prize included Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Rohinton Mistry, J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Kate Grenville.
This is a prize as notable for those who have been left out as have won it.
The two most notable were the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1994-95 for his contributions to the theory of superconductivity and to the theory of high-energy processes in astrophysics, and then, of course, the Nobel Prize in 2003.
Famous and notable instances are lovingly prized; the world's first modern book was Gutenberg's 42-line bible and the US national anthem is about an historic 42ft star-spangled banner.
This novel, for which she won the Strega Prize, is notable for its delicate lyricism and its mingling of realistic detail with an air of unreality; it is often compared to Moravia's Agostino (1944; Two Adolescents), another tale of adolescent initiation.
