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It's high season for literary prizes. Yesterday, Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Today, the National Book Foundation named this year's [...]

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A literary culture in which the only people who read novels are other novelists is neither healthy nor, ultimately, sustainable. Any literary prize that [...]

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What this year's prize really shows is that prizes, like people, have a DNA of their own. The Nobel Prize in Literature would have been more illuminatingly [...]

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Jim English, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Penn Humanities Forum, and an expert on literary prizes, wrote by e-mail that [...]

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Overlooked by the juries determining the finalists and winners of this year's national literary prizes, Kingston, Ont., writer Mark Sinnett snagged the 2010 [...]

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They just don't read the kind of stuff that wins posh literary prizes. Katie Price's novels have outsold all the Booker prize nominees put together — she [...]

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It's literary awards season (first up: Thursday's Nobel Prize), which brings up the question: How do you quantify the best book when reading is such a [...]

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Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday after serving as a juror and candidate for the University of Oklahoma's Neustadt [...]

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This year's Nobel Literature Prize will on Thursday go to a woman, a poet, an African or not: as every year, observers are pulling out all the stops to [...]

The aim of the European Prize for Literature is to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe's contemporary literature in the field [...]

June 2- The $30000 Kibble Literary Award recognises the work of an established Australian female writer. Shirley Walker has won the 2010 prize for The Ghost [...]

7 Oct 2010 Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's [...]

I have compiled information on the most important literary prizes. This list is not exhaustive. It slightly favors prizes for fiction--there are many more [...]

Literary Prizes. Pulitzer Prizes: Fiction. 1918- Ernest Poole, His Family (prominent NY father learns his 3 daughters must make their way in a world [...]

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This was the week that packed the one-two punch of fall literary awards, with the Nobel Prize in Literature announced on Thursday and the Man Booker winner. [...]

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I think literature is an expression of life—and you cannot eradicate politics from life. Even if you think politics is, in many cases, a disgusting, dirty activity.' Related: Don't Buy a Book Just Because It Won a Nobel Prize » [...]

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Why jettison a fairly new literary prize just as it was finding some legs? It has showcased some excellent writers over the last few years. Surely the two initiatives could have worked in tandem? Instead they have dropped out just like [...]

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I don't know much about her and the Wikipedia information is scant, although it does mention that her first novel, Le Livre des Nuits (1985), won six French literary prizes, and its English translation scooped the Scott-Moncrieff prize. [...]

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The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the names of the 70 finalists for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards. Half of them are finalists for the first time, and they include authors, illustrators and translators from ages [...]

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Take the Nobel Prize in Literature. China has failed to pick up any prizes at all in this category while longtime rival Japan already has two. (But you can add Lu Xun to the long list of prominent authors who did not receive the prize, [...]

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The question of whether or not literary prizes are worth while or not is certainly one that I come down on the side of them being a very useful exercise. Okay you can argue until the cows come home about who should be on shortlists etc [...]

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Congratulations to Cha contributors Wena Poon (The Proper Care of Foxes -- short stories) and Toh Hsien Min (Means to An End -- poetry); their books are shortlisteded for the Singapore Literature Prize 2010, run by the National Book [...]

A judge of many literary prizes including the famous Booker Prize, Literary Director of the Edinburgh Festival, Delaney has also made documentaries for the BBC on characters as diverse as Joyce, Shaw, and Wilde. [...]

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Alert! During the recent Cape Town Book Fair, I chaired a panel on literary awards comprising four delightfully incisive writers (all from the Kwela stable): Julia Martin, Finuala Dowling, Anne Landsman and Zukiswa Wanner (pictured in [...]

He is the 14th French man to be so honoured since the Nobel Prizes began in 1901. Literary Prizes: Prix Théophraste Renaudot (1963), Prix Larbaud (1972) [...]