Terry Pratchett and Martin Amis were both awarded with lifetime achievement prizes at the Galaxy National Book Awards in London last night for their contributions to the literary world.
Other winners included;
- Hilary Mantal, who won the Waterstones' UK author of the year award 2010
- Jonathon Franzen who won the International author of the year award
- Edmund de Waal for his book 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes', won the National Book Tokens best newcomer award
- Stephen Fry's Chronicles out ran Tony Blair's memoir and won the biography of the year award
- 'Plenty' by Yotam Ottolenghi won the food and drink book of the year
- David Nicholls took the popular fiction book of the year award with his book, 'One Day'
- Andrew Marr's 'The making of modern Britain' took the non-fiction book of the year award, and
- Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler won the children's book of the year award with their book 'ZOG'
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