Book Prizes

Major Literary Prize Loses Its Main Sponsor

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.22.2012

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One of the longest running cultural partnerships in the U.K. broke up for good Tuesday, threatening a major suporter of female novelists worldwide if ...

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Bravest Booker Longlist Of All Time?

Telegraph | Louise Doughty | Posted 09.28.2011

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One of the most difficult aspects of being a judge for the Man Booker Prize, as I discovered in 2008, becomes apparent when the longlist is announced....

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Forward Poetry Prize Shortlist: Are The Prize Jurists All Sexist?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 09.13.2011

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The 2011 Forward prize shortlist has been announced. It's an anniversary year: the prize is celebrating its 20th birthday. And this year's list oozes ...

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Samuel Johnson Prize Winner Announced

AP | Posted 09.06.2011

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LONDON — A book chronicling a Chinese tragedy under Mao has won Britain's richest nonfiction book award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. Frank Dikott...

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Literary Prize 'Suspended' Due To Funding

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 08.29.2011

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The suspension of the UK's second oldest literary award due to lack of funding has been met with dismay by authors from William Boyd to Margaret Drabb...

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Literary Prize: Eggers Leads List Of Award Winners

Posted 05.25.2011

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Two very different organizations announced writing award recipients today. First, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced its finalists for writing...

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'Asterios Polyp' Wins First L.A. Times Book Prize For Graphic Novels

Los Angeles Times | Geoff Boucher | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes but this year's ceremony was the first to award a prize in the graphic novel categor...

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Guardian's First Book Award Shortlist Announced

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Powerful fictional storytelling dominates the shortlist of this year's Guardian first book award, announced today, which includes works that range fro...

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The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of hei...

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Literary Prize Winners Of 2009 (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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There were some surprises this year, and a lot of women winning awards. In case you missed them, here are the moments we celebrated in literature duri...

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E.L. Doctorow Among Nominees For International Book Prize

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — "Ragtime" novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker I...

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