Awards Round Up October 2008

Aravind Adiga has won the 2008 Man Booker prize for his debut novel, White Tiger. The prize was awarded at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Tuesday, October 14. Click here for more information.

Michael Connelly has won the 2009 Carvalho Prize. The prize is awarded by a jury of Spanish writers, booksellers and journalists. The prize is named for a literary private detective, Pepe Carvalho, created by the late Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Connelly's new book, The Brass Verdict was published October 14.

Larry Doyle has won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor for his first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper. One judge, Firoozeh Dumas, called the book "a hilarious yet painfully accurate account of high school in all its pimply glory."