children's writer (born 1917) December 16 – A. T. Q. Stewart, Northern Irish historian and academic (born 1929) December 20 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (born 1949) December 24 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-born English children's writer (born 1926) Awards Nobel Prize in Literature: to Mario Vargas Llosa Australia Miles Franklin Award: Peter Temple, TruthCanada Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Nancy Jo Cullen; honours of distinction, Lisa Foad, George K. Ilsley. Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable LifeGovernor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2010 Governor General's Awards. Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the PastRogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Emma Donoghue, RoomScotiabank Giller Prize: Johanna Skibsrud, The SentimentalistsWriters' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Miriam Toews Sweden Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Kitty Crowther United Kingdom Caine Prize for African Writing: Olufemi Terry, "Stickfighting Days" Man Booker Prize: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question Orange Prize for Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver, The LacunaWalter Scott Prize (first award): Hilary Mantel, Wolf HallUnited States American Academy of Arts and Letters: Steve Erickson Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2010 Lambda Literary Awards. National Book Award for Fiction: to Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon National Book Critics Circle Award: to A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to War Dances by Sherman Alexie Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to Tinkers by Paul Harding Whiting Awards: Fiction: Michael Dahlie, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Lydia Peelle; Nonfiction: Elif Batuman, Amy Leach, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh; Plays: David Adjmi; Poetry: Matt Donovan, Jane Springer, L.B. Thompson Other Camões Prize: Ferreira Gullar European Book Prize: Sofi Oksanen, Purge and Roberto Saviano, Beauty and the InfernoInternational Dublin Literary Award: Gerbrand Bakker, The TwinInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction: Abdo Khal, She Throws SparksPetrarca-Preis: Pierre Michon, for his body of work'' SAARC Literary Award: Abhi Subedi, Hamid Mir, Mark Tully, Ju References See also List of literary awards List of poetry awards 2010 in Australian literature 2010 in literature 2010 books Years of the 21st century in literature