Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

The inaugural Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Non-fiction have been awarded.

The fiction category winner is The Forgotten Waltz: a novel (M) by Anne Enright.
The vicissitudes of extramarital love and the obstructions to its smooth flow—including spouses, children, and the necessary secrecy surrounding an affair—are charted in sharp yet supple prose.
The non-fiction winner is Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman (M) by Robert K. Massie
A compulsively readable biography of the fascinating woman who, through a combination of luck, personality, and a fine mind, rose from her birth as a minor German princess to become the Empress of all the Russias.

Source: http://www.thereader.ca/2012/10/andrew-carnegie-medals-for-excellence.html