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  Awards
The Curse of Chalion (2001) by Lois McMaster Bujold (3 awards)
Shalimar the Clown (2005) by Salman Rushdie (3 awards)
Mefisto In Onyx (1993) by Harlan Ellison (4 awards)
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /awards   (1202 words)

  
  Magpies Help: Searching Awards
Awarded to an outstanding work of fiction for children (not picture books) written by a British or Commonwealth author, first published in the UK in the preceding year.
The medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Services to Children of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the preceding year.
Awarded to the New Zealand author of the book that is considered to be the most distinguished contribution to nonfiction for young people.
www.magpies.net.au /helpawards.html   (2514 words)

  
 NMSU Library Award Winning Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Awards are for books published in each calendar year, by writers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in California north of a line between Big Sur and Fresno.
Awards are for authors under 35 and commonwealth citizens for a first novel of a traditional or romantic nature.
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award was established in 1992 by the late Kate Tufts in memory of her husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts.
lib.nmsu.edu /depts/collserv/AWARDS99.html   (9760 words)

  
 SAPL: Focus Fiction - Notable Books
National Book Award - Presented annually by the National Book Foundation to a work of fiction of the highest quality written by an American and published in the U.S. The winner is selected by a panel of five judges appointed by the board of directors of the NBF.
Agatha Awards - Presented since 1988 by the annual Malice Domestic Convention to celebrate the best in "mysteries of manners" published in the U.S. The genre is loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive violence, or gore, feature an amateur detective (usually), a confined setting, and characters who know one another.
The awards, named after Agatha Christie, are overseen by the Agatha Awards Committee and voted on by attending members of the current year's convention.
www.sanantonio.gov /library/fiction/fic_Awards.asp   (1330 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)

  
 Awards for Writers
Two awards to feminist writers whose fiction or prose takes up a topic of discourse found in the work of Lorde or seeks to illustrate a condition, idea, or ideal inherent in her fiction or prose.
The Lambda Literary Awards, or "Lammys," are awarded annually to recognize excellence in gay and lesbian writing and publishing in the U.S. during the preceding year.
This award is given for a free verse, narrative poem or dramatic monologue by a fl lesbian poet.
www.queertheory.com /academics/queer_awards_authors.htm   (651 words)

  
 DAWCL Explanation of Awards
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: An outstanding title of fiction or non-fiction published for young adults, defined as 12-18 years, inside or outside the U.S. from the proceeding year January 1 to December 31.
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   (3361 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Whitbread Book Awards
The Whitbread Book Awards was established in 1971 and aims to celebrate and promote the best of contemporary British writing.
The four Whitbread Awards are Poetry, Biography, First Novel and Novel, and are each chosen by a three-member judging panel.
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)

  
 Awards and Prizes - Bernard MacLaverty.com
Award from Scottish Arts Council, 1982, and arts award from the Irish Sunday Independent, 1983, both for A Time to Dance and Other Stories.
Award of bronze medal for screenplay of 'Lamb', also voted best film by the youth jury and by the ecumenical jury, Lucarno Film Festival, 1987.
Award from Scottish Arts Council, 1988, for The Great Profundo and Other Stories and joint winner of 'Scottish Writer of the Year, 1988' (McVities prize) and the Irish Post Award for 1989.
www.bernardmaclaverty.com /biography/awards.htm   (322 words)

  
 Whitbread Awards
Established in 1971 to "celebrate and promote the best of contemporary British Writing," this annual prize is awarded in the categories of fiction, poetry, biography, children's literature and for the best first novel.
The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Whitbread Award.
The Improbable Puritan: Bulstrode Whitelock by Ruth Spalding (1975)
midhudson.org /Awards/whitbread.htm   (429 words)

  
 Whitbread Book Awards
Founded in 1971 and sponsored by Whitbread Breweries and administered by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, the Whitbread Prize is usually considered second only to the Booker in esteem, and by some a more important award.
There are actually five Whitbread genre prizes each year--best novel, best first novel, best biography, best book of poems, and best children's book--from which one is chosen as Whitbread book of the year.
Category winners receive £5000; the overall winner, for the Whitbread Book of the Year, receives an additional £25,000, one of the richest of all literary awards.
facstaff.unca.edu /moseley/whitbread.html   (189 words)

  
 The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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)

  
 The Places You Will Go: Awards
The hero of the novel, which won last year's Whitbread children's book award, eventually finds the leak and manages to seal it.
The Quill Awards have announced the nominees for the 19 categories honoured.
If you're wondering about the first name of the author (the Orange prize is awarded to women novelists), Shriver was christened Margaret Ann, but changed her name in her teens.
daphne.blogs.com /books/awards/index.html   (2155 words)

  
 Which literary awards do you watch for? - Reader's Paradise Forum - GardenWeb
I know all of these awards are political & some more deserving than others, but I've gotten very good reads out of the winners of all of these prizes.
As for higher literary awards, sometimes they'll bring the books to my attention, but to tempt me to read it the story must still appeal to me and meet certain criteria of my own before I'll pick it up.
The Miles Franklin Award is the most relevant for me. I also take an interest in the Booker.
glyphs.gardenweb.com /forums/load/paradise/msg111059011547.html   (1660 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 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)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Awards
This is a list of all the awards Roald Dahl won (that I know of), organized by year.
1975 Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator).
1978 Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award (for Danny the Champion of the World).
www.roalddahlfans.com /awards.php   (281 words)

  
 Literary Awards - Contemporary Writers
This new section allows you to search the database for authors on Contemporary Writers who have been shortlisted for - or have won - some of the most prestigious literary awards and prizes.
Use the quick 'Search awards' box on the left of this page to search the awards database.
Please note that some awards have undergone small changes to their titles over the years, thus, for instance, a search simply for 'whitbread' will return more results than a search for 'Whitbread Book of the Year'.
www.contemporarywriters.com /awards   (375 words)

  
 Book Reviews by Kids
The Whitbread awards started in 1971 and the first award for a children's novel was given in 1972.
The format changed in 1985 when the Whitbread Book of the Year was launched, and in 1996, children’s books were taken out of the main category and given a prize of their own.
Qualifying books must be written by authors who have been resident in the UK or Eire for three years and whose book has been published between 1 November and 31 October of the year of the prize.
www.bookreviewsbykids.com /whitbread_childrens_book_of_the_year.htm   (270 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - Whitbread Book of the Year
The Whitbread Book of the Year Award celebrates the best of contemporary British writing.
The Whitbread awards are given annually in five categories — Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature — to authors who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for at least three years.
From these five winners, one book is chosen as the Whitbread Book of the Year.
www.powells.com /prizes/whitbread.html   (450 words)

  
 1998 Whitbread Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards.
They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience.
This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998_Whitbread_Awards   (151 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)

  
 Anne Fine: Awards
Carnegie Medal 1993 and Whitbread Children's Novel Award 1993
Anne (centre) receives her honorary degree from Warwick University.
Shortlisted for Smarties Award (9 - 11 section) 1990
www.annefine.co.uk /awards.php   (240 words)

  
 Readers' Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Click on an award for more information -- including a list of honorees that dates back to the award's inception.
Lambda Literary Awards / Lesbian Poetry / 2006 - 1989
Lambda Literary Awards / Transgender / 2006 - 1997
www.readersbooks.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (759 words)

  
 WHSmith Literature Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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.
This British prize does not have an age limit for the author.
www.bookawards.bizland.com /whsmith_literary_awards.htm   (245 words)

  
 Tatnuck Bookseller and Cafe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Benjamin Franklin Awards / Multicultural / 2006 - 2001
Lambda Literary Awards / Erotica / 2006 - 2002
Lambda Literary Awards / Autobiography / 2005 - 2003
www.tatnuck.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (2542 words)

  
 Whitbread Book Awards: Best First Novel on Lists of Bests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When you are finished editing and re-ordering this list, click here.
The Whitbread is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK.
Since its launch in 1971, its structure has evolved; but it has never diverted from its original ethos of identifying and celebrating some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.
www.listsofbests.com /list/76/compare/stagebunny   (145 words)

  
 boydblog: February 2006
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Bocanegra then went on to become one of the best defenders in Major League Soccer, becoming the first player to be named MLS Defender of the Year Award twice, doing so in 2002 and 2003.
Jamie Cureton (born 28 August 1975) is an England football (soccer) player who is currently a striker for Queens Park Rangers F.C. in the English Football League Championship.
boydl8l1.blogspot.com /2006_02_01_boydl8l1_archive.html   (9636 words)

  
 Food for Thought Books Collective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Charlotte Zolotow Award / 2005 - 1998
Benjamin Franklin Awards / Parenting / 2006 - 2001
Benjamin Franklin Awards / Autobio-Bio-Memoir / 2006 - 2001
www.foodforthoughtbooks.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (2638 words)

  
 Caltech Press Release, 3/29/2004,
McEwan is the author of more than ten books, including Amsterdam (1998), winner of the prestigious Booker Prize; The Child in Time (1987), winner of the Whitbread Award; and the story collection, First Love, Last Rites (1975), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
Besides hosting writers in residence, the program also presents an annual science-writing symposium and awards modest grants to support literary activities on campus.
Words Matter is intended to cultivate students' interest in writing in its varied forms and to foster an appreciation of the many ways in which words do, indeed, matter.
pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12517.html   (308 words)

  
 J T Black Memorial Fiction Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
List of Awards The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith's second novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002
1981 Joint Award: Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children
All Literature Awards site contents are copyrighted © 2003 by J M McElligott and may not be published in any form.
www.bookawards.bizland.com /black_prizewinners.htm   (359 words)

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