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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I stand corrected, although I suspect in this context most folks would interpret the word 'nominated' as meaning short listed. But I guess it could also mean 'submitted', which is a longer list (hundreds) than the so-called long-list (a dozen or thereabouts) :lol:
IMO that site is heavily biased to the North Atlantic and especially US/UK, where most people don't actually live. And I question the legitimacy of ranking yearly awards alongside "the greatest of all time" lists.
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Ah yeah, the site itself is intended to distil all the various "best books ever" lists that newspapers and the like make, into one epic "Really and truly all the best books" lists. Which is a thing the guy who made it wanted to do, not something I would personally find very useful.
But it just so happens, it's one of the few places that also has a fairly complete and generally up to date list of several of the major literary awards that you can get at all on one page, and with all the categories (I didn't even realise how many categories half those awards had, actually.)
Unlike say, the Booker site itself where you have to dig through pages and pages to find each year's list, and there's way too much pretty graphics to copy and paste into a spreadsheet or Calibre.
There are probably others, but that's a decent place to start if you're after the internationally prestigious giant awards. (For sci-fi, I'd hit up sfdb and
https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books.asp first though.) In any case, a lot of those award-giving-organisations make getting a clean list of winners ridiculously hard, and I have no idea why.