December AwardsCat, 2017; International awards (a prize from a country you aren't living in)

In December you can choose an award from any country you are not living in, so you could use this time to catch up on books that you wanted to read for a previous month that you did not get to.

Here are some suggestions;
Australian; The Miles Franklin Award, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Franklin_Award and https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/07/miles-franklin-awards-2017-shortli...
Chile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Prize_for_Literature_(Chile)
China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun_Literary_Prize
France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_du_roman_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Goncourt
Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Book_Awards
Israeli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Prize
New Zealand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister%27s_Awards_for_Literary_Achievement
Russian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Booker_Prize
South Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Literary_Awards_(SALA)



Some of these lists are not in English and it is hard to know which are translated but you can find lists for many countries here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_awards

Little trickier to figure out this one without a specific award to look for (I use tags to see what's on my tbr), so this will take a bit of time...

It looks like Broken Harbour / Tana French, which is the next in the series for me, won the Irish Crime Fiction Award in 2012. That may be what I go for.

Other options:
This looks like it's a British award: Crime Writers Award:
Raven Black / Ann Cleeves

I've earmarked The Distant Echo, by Val McDermid, for this one. It was nominated for the first Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2005.

Currently I am planning on reading Genesis by Bernard Beckett which won New Zealand's 2008 Best YA Novel and Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd which won Scotland's 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Just finished the excellent I see you by Clare Mackintosh that was filled with suspense. I can recommend this one. It was on The British Book Industry Awards shortlist (Crime & Thriller, 2017).

Thanks to Roro8 for the recommendation!

Here is the link to the new, secure Wiki for the 2017 AwardsCat:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2017CC_AwardsCAT#2017_AwardsCAT_Challeng...

I have completed Genesis by Bernard Beckett which won best YA Novel at the 2008 New Zealand Book Awards.

I noticed that Song for a dark queen has two awards to its credit, one British, the other presumably US American.

I'm reading Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea, which won or was nominated for several awards in the UK in 2001. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, was a runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award (children's book category).

I read What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. It won this award; Prix des libraires du Québec (Roman hors Québéc, 2004) So I am using it for this CAT. It is an American author and written in America but this seems to be an International Award.

I have started Room which I think might work for this CAT. It won the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards (2010) and since I live in the U.S. that qualifies for an award from a country I am not living in. It feels a bit like a cheat since it is an English-language book & I was thinking of trying to find something originally written in another language but I can't seem to find translated works that won awards that appeal to me at the moment...

Raven Black / Ann Cleeves
3.5 stars

When 16-year old Catherine, a newcomer to Shetland, is found murdered, people assume the odd guy who was also thought (though it was never proven) to have killed a younger girl years earlier was also responsible for Catherine’s death. The younger girl, though, was never found.

Good book, but lots of characters to keep straight. This was told from different points of view. I was surprised by the ending. I might have enjoyed it more if I wasn’t so distracted while reading. I will continue the series.

I finished Strange Shores, the final book in the Inspector Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason. It was a finalist for the Petrona Award, for best Scandinavian Crime Novel published in the UK in 2014.

I read Man’s Fate by André Malraux, published in 1933, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1933. This is French literature that tells the story of the an episode in the Chines Revolution. Very good.