The Orange Readers Group Book of the Year has been awarded to THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. From the Orange website:
John Boyne’s novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, (Black Swan) has been voted the Penguin Orange Readers’ Group Book of the Year.
Votes were collected via the Spinebreakers website and from people entering the 2009 Penguin Orange Readers’ Group Prize. The award had previously been won by Khaled Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, which remarkably claimed the top spot three years in a row.
The three favourite reading group books are:
1 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne, Black Swan
2 Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, ATOM
3 Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Penguin
Author John Boyne said, “”I’m thrilled that The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas has been selected as the Penguin Orange Readers’ Group Book of the Year. From the day the novel was published, it has received extraordinary support from reading groups who debate the novel back and forth with all the passion and argument that good literature demands – I know, because I’ve been there for some of those debates! That the story of Bruno and Shmuel continues to move readers is a source of great encouragement to me as a writer. I’m very grateful to Penguin and Orange and all the readers who selected the novel for this prize.”
The Penguin Orange Readers’ Group Prize
Now in its eighth year, the prize is the UK’s only annual award for reading groups and forms part of Orange’s portfolio of literary partnerships
Our last full day in Berlin was devoted to press interviews in the morning before we visited the Holocaust Memorial (left) in the centre of Berlin, next to the Brandenburg Gate, for a television recording. An extraordinary public installation of concrete slabs through which visitors can walk, the memorial plays with your sense of perspective and space; inside it’s very quiet. One of the most fascinating works of public art/memorial I have ever seen.
Our second day in Berlin began with a visit to Potsdam where we were guests on RBB Radio, along with Nicola, the director of the 
Kathe Kollwitz Museum, alongside German actor August Zirner who read from the German translation of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS.
For anyone who hasn’t had more than their share of 
Public voting for this year’s British Book Awards has opened and THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS in on the longlist for the Children’s Book of the Year.
Hot on the heels of the news that THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS is longlisted for 8 British Academy
Awards comes the news that it has also been shortlisted for Best International Film at the Irish Film Awards – where it’s up against Man On Wire, Wall-E, and In Bruges – and also the Spanish Film Awards (the Goyas), where the competition is 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Dark Knight, and The Edge of Heaven.
