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	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 given to a book that teaches its young reader at least one important scientific principle, or encourages the reader toward specific science-related pursuits or inquiry.
	ccb.lis.uiuc.edu /book_awards.html (1756 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)

	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#ABBY (3083 words)

	Authorial.com – Funding: Awards
		This award is to be presented annually to a journalist, working in either the print or electronic media, whose coverage of heritage issues is judged to be outstanding.
		Nominations for the award will be accepted from individuals or organizations, provided that the nominator is not directly related to, employed by, or in any other way directly associated with, the journalist in question.
		The Journey Prize itself is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work in progress.
	www.authorial.com /pages/f2_awards.html (2767 words)

	Awards
		The Curse of Chalion (2001) by Lois McMaster Bujold (3 awards)
		Mefisto In Onyx (1993) by Harlan Ellison (4 awards)
		The Territory (1992) by Bradley Denton (3 awards)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /awards (954 words)

	List of Awards Encyclopedia Articles @ Recognized.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		King Faisal Foundation Prize -- King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 by the eight sons of the late King Faisal ibn Abd Al Aziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder and the Kingdom's third monarch.
		Lorentz Medal -- awarded every four years to a scientist in recognition of important contributions to theoretical physics.
		Nicholas Appert Award -- given by the Institute of Food Technologists for lifetime contributions to food technology.
	www.recognized.org /encyclopedia/List_of_awards (1149 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)

	Whitbread
		Whitbread and Co Ltd was the name of a brewery company founded in London by Samuel Whitbread.
		The business was originally a partnership established by Whitbread and Thomas Shewell in 1742; it did not take on the Whitbread and Co name until 1799.
		Echoing this shift, the Whitbread and Co brewery building at 52 Chiswell Street still survives, but is now used as a conference and events venue.
	www.governpub.com /Bee-W/Whitbread.php (273 words)

	123-Awards.com - Awards, Plaques, Trophies, Desk Sets, Acrylics, Golf Awards, and Clocks
		National Book Awards - The awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature.
		Tony Godwin Memorial Trust - Established in 1976 to encourage the talents of young publishers and to honor Tony Godwin, a UK prominent publisher in the 1960s and early 1970s.
		Whitbread Book of the Year Awards - Awards for poetry, biography, novel and first novel by British writers.
	www.123-awards.com /Celebrity/literature/Literature_Awards.html (535 words)

	Poets & Writers - Grants & Awards 1996 July/August
		Two awards were given this year because the judges felt that both deserved the award in their area of expertise.
		The award was established by the late PSA member Althea Urn, in memory of Mary Carolyn Davies, to honor a lyric poem.
		The award is made annually to a "person of exceptional talent" to enable him or her to pursue an independent project in the humanities.
	www.pw.org /mag/ga9607.htm (6435 words)

	Iris Murdoch
		She was made Commander of the British Empire in 1976 and Dame of the British Empire in 1987.
		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.
	www.aesthetics-online.org /memorials/bonzon.html (1212 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 Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor (1976)
	midhudson.org /Awards/whitbread.htm (421 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)

	Award-Winning Books - LibrarySpot Feature
		The Coretta Scott King Award is presented to fl authors who inspire and educate in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King.
		The Lambda Literacy Award recognizes excellence in gay and lesbian literature.
		The Bram Stoker Awards are given out by members of the Horror Writers association and the Hugo Awards are chosen by the World Science Fiction Convention.
	www.libraryspot.com /features/awardfeature.htm (966 words)

	Square Books
		The Whitbread Book Awards are presented annually in five categories -- Novel, First Novel, Poetry, Biography, Children's Book -- of which one is also chosen as the Whitbread Book of the Year.
		Eligible works are those by authors who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for three or more years.
		The winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for "Kit's Wilderness" returns with a magical tale of a young boy coming of age at the height of the Cold War.
	squarebooks.booksense.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=00197920C664859D51EF3BA92456B583.t6?s=awards&awardId=1955 (189 words)

	Irish Playography
		William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown Co Cork in 1928.
		His novels include The Old Boys (1964), which won The Hawthornden Prize; The Children of Dynmouth (1976), which won the Whitbread Award 1976; Fools of Fortune (1983) which won the Whitbread Award 1983; and The Silence in the Garden (1988) and Two Lives (1991), which includes the Booker-shortlisted novella Reading Turgenev.
		In 1976 he received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize and in 1977 he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature.
	www.irishplayography.com /search/person.asp?PersonID=63 (163 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Radcliffe alumnae are recognized for accomplishments
		The recipients of these awards will participate in the symposium, which is free and open to the public.
		The award, which honors former Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (now the Radcliffe Association) executive director Jane Rainie Opel '50 for her 18 years of service, is presented annually to an alumna in the 10th reunion class for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of women, to her profession, or to the Institute.
		In 1999, Fels received the Cambridge Peace and Justice Award and a Swiss Army Knife Equipped Award, given nationally to people who "exhibit resolve and leadership in overcoming difficult tasks." In 2001, the Cambridge YWCA honored her at its Tribute to Outstanding Women.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/05.29/11-radcliffe.html (2038 words)

	British Guild Of Beer Writers
		Events Director for The Brewing Industry International Awards (www.brewingawards.org), which is the foremost international brewing industry event organised in the UK and which was held in 2005 in Munich during the drinktec 2005 World Fair for Beverage Technology.
		Awarded the Guild's gold tankard in 2000 and 1998; pewter tankard 1997; Budweiser Budvar travel bursary 2002.
		A brewer with Charrington, Whitbread and W.H. Brakspear.
	www.beerwriters.co.uk /gui_members.php (5390 words)

	WHSmith Literature Awards
		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)

	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, P-R
		Pynchon's first book, winner of the Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year, and the debut of one of the most important American writers of the postwar era.
		Pynchon's second novel, winner of the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the most overtly political, and paranoid, of Pynchon's novels.
		A leatherbound limited edition of this novel that won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
	lopezbooks.com /catalog/116/116-12.html (1567 words)

	The Millions (A Blog About Books): 11/01/2005 - 11/30/2005
		Still, perhaps this award could be better than it is. The Literary Saloon identifies some possible improvements, including a way to cut out the nationalism that pervades the longlist.
		If the Whitbread too closely mirrors the Booker, it loses some of its punch, but if the judges pick a shortlist with no overlap with the Booker, the Whitbread is criticized for being too obscure.
		The non-fiction award went, unsurprisingly, to Joan Didion for her heart-wrenching and much praised memoir of the year following the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, The Year of Magical Thinking.
	www.themillionsblog.com /2005_11_01_themillions_archive.html (6699 words)

	The Ireland Funds : Events - Literary Award 2005
		In presenting the 2005 award Thomas McCarthy stated that Trevor was selected “…for his brilliant prose, for his insight into human character, for his bridging the emotional sea that divides English and Irish life…”
		Thomas McCarthy later had this to say: “I have always felt that the Literary Award is a vital component in the annual life of the Funds as well as an absolutely vital intervention in the continuing life of Irish writing.
		The Award works that way because it is a significant intervention, really affecting the life of those who receive it.
	www.irlfunds.org /events/literary_05.asp (612 words)

	William Trevor - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1976 William Trevor received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize, and in 1977 was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his valuable services to literature.
		In 1992 he received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.
		Many critics and writers have praised his work: to Hilary Mantel he 'is one of the contemporary writers I most admire' and to Carol Shields 'a worthy chronicler of our times'.
	www.penguin.ca:8000 /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000016878,00.html (230 words)

	Rush - ABC TV 1974 & 1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Two series were made, the first in 1974 and the second two years later in 1976.
		The first series was set in Victoria during the gold rush of the 1850's, and was produced in Melbourne and filmed in fl and white.
		Oscar Whitbread, one of the pioneer producers for the ABC who had worked on many of their television plays, was appointed Executive Producer.
	www.tandarra.com /rush/rush_production.htm (3272 words)

	Muslim Communities in Europe: Britain
		He was awarded an OBE (for Services to Charities and Community Relations) in the 1999 New Years Honours List and a Knighthood in the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to the community, charity and community relations.
		His citation for the Whitbread award noted, "Mohammed is an inspirational example of what young volunteers can do in their communities, through determination and commitment.
		He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2002 and a year later, he was awarded Britain's Young Asian Achievers Award by the Institute of Asian Professionals at the Asian Jewels Awards.
	www.salaam.co.uk /themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=9 (12289 words)

	Univ. of Texas at Austin, Graduate Creative Writing \| Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		She is the author of two collections of stories and two novels, and her stories and essays have appeared in such journals as Southwest Review, The New Yorker, Mirabella, and Ploughshares.
		He is the author of six books of poetry, a translation of Selected Poems of Ferencz Jubasz, and has received the E.C. Gregory Award, Arts Council of Great Britain awards, the Richard Hillary Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
		Thomas Whitbread's books include two collections of poetry; his poems also appear in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Massachusetts Review, and The New Yorker, and his short stories in The Paris Review, Shenandoah, and The Texas Observer.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/english/programs/creativewriting/faculty.html (625 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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