The awards, which are judged by librarians, were set up to recognise writers (the Carnegie) and illustrators (the Greenaway).
"Also Scotland has been bad in the past at recognising writers and artists who leave.
This is the Chabon I most recognise: writer as humanitarian.
Ted Allbeury, who has died aged 88, was the most productive of the internationally recognised spy writers of recent years, at one point writing four novels in one year under his own name, plus others under the pen names Richard Butler and Patrick Kelly.
In an article in the Strand Magazine in 1917, Conan Doyle recalls an encounter with a fan: a Cornish boatman who'd recognised the writer while on holiday.
I can't remember where I read it, or who told me, but apparently Joyce himself recognised two Irish writers as his legitimate literary offspring.
The two writers recognised in Sassall an outstanding physician as well as an enthusiast for an unfashionable ideal – the Renaissance dream of aspiring to universal knowledge and experience.
The Indian-born author joins Sebastian Faulks, Melvyn Bragg and Tom Wolfe among the pantheon of writers recognised by the Literary Review for producing the "most egregious passage of sexual description in a novel".
That's true, especially, of the suburbs, traditionally caricatured as a non-place for non-U people – anodyne, featureless, lowbrow, conformist – but now recognised as somewhere writers can live without feeling that they've sold out.
The premier's special award, to recognise a writer's unique achievements, went to David Williamson, described by the judges as Australia's "greatest living playwright".
