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		The awards are sponsored by the Publishing Triangle, a national association of lesbians and gay men in the publishing industry.
		Student votes determine the outcome of the awards, the winners of which are announced late in the spring.
		Whitbread, a major British company focused on leisure and hospitality businesses, sponsors this award on behalf of its customers.
	booksocietya.tripod.com /book/id10.html (901 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters
		Geoff Dyer (E.M. Forster Award) was born in 1958 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
		Stephen Sandy (Academy Award) was born in 1933, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		Arturo Vivante (Katherine Anne Porter Award) was born in Rome, Italy, in 1923.
	www.artsandletters.org /index.php?page=press_releases&release=26 (2019 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - the Grove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Nebula Awards are voted on and presented by active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, founded in 1965.
		It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Honor books are also named each year.
		RITA Awards are given annually by Romance Writers of America and are the highest honor in the romance genre.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/grove_resource_awards_m-z.html (667 words)

	Educational Paperback Association.
		The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is awarded annually by the ALA to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
		This award, established in 2004, will be given annually beginning in 2006 to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children's literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.
		The purpose of the awards are to encourage young readers to become better acquainted with contemporary books with outstanding literary appeal, to broaden students'awareness of literature as a life-long pleasure,to encourage reading aloud in classrooms as a means of introducing reading for pleasure, and to honor favorite books and their authors.
	www.edupaperback.org /showlinks.cfm?type=107 (6042 words)

	Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library - Reading Lists and Awards from the Web
		Awards are made in the basis of the votes of mystery fans worldwide and presented at the annual World Mystery Convention, also known as Bouchercon.
		The award is co-sponsored by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Foundation and the University of San Fransisco Center for the Pacific Rim.
		Awards, which include a cash stipend, are given to books written by U. citizens "that have contributed most significantly to human awareness, to the vitality of our national culture and to the spirit of excellence." Panels of three judges select the winners from candidates that were published during the previous calendar year.
	www.zionsville.lib.in.us /as/www_reading_lists.html (2751 words)

	1974 Definition / 1974 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		1974 is a common year starting on TuesdayThis is the calendar for a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F), e.g.
		It was launched May 14, 1973 on an unmanned mission by a two-stage version of the Saturn V booster (the SL-1 mission).
		1974 is a federal mandate that governs the treatment of personal data.
	www.elresearch.com /1974 (1276 words)

	Book Awards for Children's Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
		This award is named for the nineteenth-century Danish author of such memorable and inspirational fairy tales as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes." The award honors the entire work of authors and illustrators, not individual titles, and is granted by an international jury selected by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People).
		The award is considered one of the highest achievements in children's literature.
	ccb.lis.uiuc.edu /book_awards.html (1756 words)

	Kid-Lit - Quick List Ages 6 to 8
		Awarded to those books which the Bulletin staff believe to be the best of the prior year's literature for young people.
		Awarded to "a work of fiction for children written in English by a UK citizen, or an author resident in the UK.
		Awarded to books which children from the Pacific Northwest and Canada have judged to be the most enjoyable.
	www.kid-lit.com /qlawards.htm (550 words)

	DAWCL Explanation of Awards
		Awarded to: Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream" for books published in the preceeding year.
		Awarded to: The award is made to the author and illustrator of a children’s book which combines excellence in both text and illustration.
		Awarded to: Awards go to authors for books from ages K-12 (categories are divided by age) for books published anywhere in the world in the given time period.
	www.dawcl.com /awards.html#ABBY (3083 words)

	Book Awards--Information and URLs
		This biennial award is given to one living author for his or her complete body of works that has been of international importance in children's literature.
		This citation is awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be outstanding that was originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and then translated into English and published in the United States.
		An annual award, named for 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery, that is presented to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States.
	www.tarleton.edu /~cwilterding/awards.htm (2293 words)

	The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Whitbread Awards "acknowledge outstanding books of literature not only for the qualities accorded to them by the critics of the day but for popular qualities which make them readable on a wide scale".
		The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year is open to books for children of seven and up, written by a British author.
		Before 1996, the award was known as the Children's Novel category of the Whitbread Book of the Year.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~dkbrown/whitbread.html (229 words)

	CNN.com - Books - And the winner is ... - November 21, 2000
		Awards like the NBA, the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Britain's Booker Prize and the ultimate laurel, the Nobel, seem, to the average reader, like authoritative badges of literary quality.
		The nonprofit National Book Foundation was formed to run the awards along with other literacy programs in 1989, and the current executive director, Neil Baldwin, was brought on in part to help lift the awards' profile and make the annual ceremony a glittering event.
		One prize to watch, interestingly, is one of the more low-profile awards: the annual Whiting Awards, in which prizes of $35,000 are given to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise" (including fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as poets and playwrights).
	edition.cnn.com /2000/books/reviews/11/21/salon.prizewinners (2133 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Whitbread Book Awards
		The four Whitbread Awards are Poetry, Biography, First Novel and Novel, and are each chosen by a three-member judging panel.
		The overall Whitbread Book of the Year, worth £21,000, is chosen from these four Award winners.
		The winners of both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year are chosen by a nine-member judging panel.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/awards/whitbread.phtml (98 words)

	BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books
		Established in 1949, Christopher Awards are presented to the producers, directors and writers of books, motion pictures and television specials which affirm the highest values of the human spirit.
		The Coretta King Scott award is given annually to authors of African descent whose distinguished books promote understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream." This award commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage in continuing his work for peace and brotherhood.
		The National Book Awards were established in 1950 by a consortium of publishing groups who wanted to bring to the public's attention exceptional books written by Americans, as well as encourage reading in general.
	www.bookcloseouts.com /default.asp?N=0&merch=award (795 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Hilary Spurling: master biographer
		Hilary Spurling has won the Whitbread Book of the Year for the second part of her Matisse biography, Matisse the Master.
		In addition to the recognition the award brings, she picked up a cheque for £25,000 at a London ceremony on Tuesday.
		Born in Stockport and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, the writer, who is 65, was the arts editor, theatre critic and subsequently literary editor for the magazine The Spectator during the 1960s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/4645234.stm (397 words)

	Awards
		The Curse of Chalion (2001) by Lois McMaster Bujold (3 awards)
		A Midsummer Tempest (1974) by Poul Anderson (3 awards)
		Mefisto In Onyx (1993) by Harlan Ellison (4 awards)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /awards (954 words)

	CEN MAGAZINE - Literature - THE TOKEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Whitbread is one of the longest established and esteemed book awards in the UK and celebrates some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.
		Since the introduction of the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1985, it has been won seven times by a novel, three times by a first novel, four times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry and once by a children’s book.
		She is also the author of a biography of the novelist Paul Scott and of the painter Henri Matisse, published in two volumes in 1998 and 2005.
	www.cenuk.com /articles/literature/the_whitbread.html (685 words)

	Iris Murdoch - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
		Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List.
		In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
		She recieved a number of other literary awards, among them the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread Prize for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974).
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000023110,00.html (365 words)

	Ted Hughes - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
		He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998.
		He won many awards including First Prize in the Guinness Poetry Awards in 1958, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1974 and the Guardian's Children's Fiction Award in 1985.
		In 1997 he won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Tales from Ovid, and repeated this success the following year with Birthday Letters, which was also awarded both the T. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry, and named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000015877,00.html (291 words)

	:: TurboBookSnob.com ::
		The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is awarded yearly to an outstanding work of fiction or biography written in English, regardless of the nationality of the author.
		National awards are given for books written in English by a U.S. citizen in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature.
		The National Book Critics Circle Awards were founded in 1974 by a group of book reviewers, and are given to works of fiction, non-fiction, biography and autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
	www.turbobooksnob.com /resources/prizes.html (977 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 116, Awards, B
		Winner of the 1974 Lamont Poetry Award, with the announcement of the award laid in, along with a Compliments of the Academy of American Poets card.
		Her first book of prose, a memoir, winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
		The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of his first book, winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys awards when published in England.
	lopezbooks.com /catalog/116/116-03.html (900 words)

	Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes
		Award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
		Award for a work of historical fiction from a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
		Award to a single volume of poetry published for children in a calendar year.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/awards.htm (1738 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 116, Awards, S
		Her National Book Award winner which, unlike her many historical novels, is a contemporary story set on a remote Turkish island.
		His second novel, winner of the National Book Award and one of the best novels to link the impact of the Vietnam war on American society in the Sixties to the dark side of that era -- the official corruption and the underside of the drug experiences of a generation.
		A dark tale of a small Central American country in upheaval, and the lives of a group of Americans whose different backgrounds and connections to the action intersect alarmingly and tragically.
	lopezbooks.com /catalog/116/116-13.html (1434 words)

	Iris Murdoch
		Among her literary awards were: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 1973; the Whitbread Prize, 1974; the Booker McConnell Prize, 1978 (for which 6 of her novels had been shortlisted).
		She was also made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, and awarded the National Arts Clubs (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature in 1990.
		She is survived by her husband of forty-three years, the literary critic, novelist and Oxford professor John Bayley.
	www.aesthetics-online.org /memorials/bonzon.html (1212 words)

	The Whitbread Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Whitbread Book of the Year was awarded for the first time in 1985 when the format of the Awards was changed.
		N.B. The structure of the Awards changed again in 1996 when the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year became an award in its own right (i.e.
		WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
	www.mnstate.edu /schwartz/whitbread.html (1192 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Profile: Russell Hoban
		While he is wryly self-deprecatory about his active service, saying he never killed anybody or even fired his rifle, he acknowledges seeing "a lot of dead bodies".
		He was awarded a Bronze Star for bravery in action for delivering orders and supplies to a forward position while under enemy fire.
		Riddley Walker was begun in 1974 and took five-and-a-half years to write, but he says he always expected to get a book out of it "even though after two years I knew the 500 pages I had weren't it, so I started again".
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,,845568,00.html (3011 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Whitbread Book of the Year Award celebrates the best of contemporary British writing.
		The Whitbread awards are given in 5 categories: Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature to authors who have lived in Great Britian or Ireland for at least three years.
		Out of these four winners, one book is chosen as the Whitbread Book of the Year.
	www.arq.net /~coolapple1/whitbread.html (143 words)

	Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes
		Awards for nonprint media such as computer software or video for children and young adults are also included.
		Award given by the 15 Degree Laboratory to the author and
		Award to works fostering a better understanding of the people of the world toward the end
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/awards (1738 words)

	WHSmith Literature Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The WHSmith Literary Awards have been in existence since 1959.
		This award celebrates the most outstanding contributions to literature by a Commonwealth or UK citizen.
		All Literature Awards site contents are copyrighted © 2004 by J M McElligott and may not be published in any form.
	www.literature-awards.com /whsmith_literary_awards.htm (265 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - RUSSELL AND LILLIAN HOBAN PAPERS
		For Charlie the Tramp, they won the Boys Club Award in 1968, and for Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and the Christopher Award, both in 1972.
		Russell Hoban won the Whitbread Literary Award in 1974 and made the International Board on Books for Young People Honor List in 1976, both for How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen.
		He was awarded Recognition of Merit, George G. Stone Center for Children's Books, 1982, for his contributions to books for younger children.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/hobanrus.htm (1073 words)

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