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	children and Young Adult Book Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The award was established by the Council in 1977, and until 1982 it was given annually.
		This award, established in 1996, goes to "a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth." It is given every two years.
		This award was established in 1982 by the noted writer of historical fiction, who hoped to increase interest in the genre.
	www.lex5.k12.sc.us /dfhs/Media/pageawards.htm (1979 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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	Book awards explained
		The Coretta Scott King Award was established in 1969 and is given by the American Library Association.
		It is presented annually to a fl author and to a fl illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution published during the previous year.
		The Whitbread Book Awards are given each year in four categories (novel, first novel, poetry, and biography) to works by authors who have lived for three or more years in Great Britain or Ireland.
	www.lightyearschildren.com /bkawards.html (463 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)

	1977 - Qwika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	Harvard Gazette: Radcliffe alumnae are recognized for accomplishments
		In 1977, she received a Ford Foundation fellowship to attend Yale Law School, where she earned a master of studies in law degree.
		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)

	Books at Random House of Canada --- Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The prize will be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or generally available in translation in the English language.
		This prize of $7,500 is awarded for excellence in writing and illustrating a book, in English- or French-language, in one of three age groups: 7 and under; 8 to 11; and 12 and up.
		This annual award was launched in the U.K. in 1996 to "celebrate novels of excellence by women writers".
	www.randomhouse.ca /award (2853 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)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 116, Awards, M
		The uncorrected proof copy of his National Book Award-winning volume, recounting a trip to the Himalayas with naturalist George Schaller in the hopes both of encountering a snow leopard in the wild and of coming to terms with his wife's death from cancer.
		This book is notorious for several flaws: the front flap tends to detach at the fold, from slightly excessive scoring in the bindery, and the white jacket is susceptible to yellowing and soiling.
		Publisher's release laid in announcing the Booker Prize Award and a subsequent change of publication date from February 1999 to December 1998.
	www.lopezbooks.com /catalog/116/116-10.html (2056 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Four compete for prestigious award
		The Whitbread Book Awards have held their own in the crowded world of literary prizes for 27 years.
		A winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1986, he says writing Quarantine has made him more respectful of God.
		His biography on Balzac was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award in 1994.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/50873.stm (383 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 (1738 words)

	Awards
		Beggars in Spain (1991) by Nancy Kress (4 awards)
		The Curse of Chalion (2001) by Lois McMaster Bujold (3 awards)
		Mefisto In Onyx (1993) by Harlan Ellison (4 awards)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /awards (954 words)

	Welcome to DREAMWalker Group: Lists of Awards, Acclaim,
		The Michael L. Printz Award, first given in 2000, is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
		The Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement are awarded annually by the Horror Writers Association, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting the interests of writers of horror and dark fantasy.
		The Nebula Award was inaugurated in 1965 and is given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
	dreamwalkergroup.com /lists_of_lists/index_list_of_lists.htm (814 words)

	Iris Murdoch
		They were written under the acknowledged influence of the great 19th century novelists Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Henry James, and constitute a sustained meditation upon dense and complex configurations of chaos and contingency, goodness and evil, power, fantasy, enchantment, truth and love.
		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)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 116, Awards, P-R
		The uncorrected proof copy of her third work of fiction and second novel, which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize -- a rare literary double that firmly established her as one of the preeminent writers in America today.
		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.
		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)

	Books at Book Clubs \| browse guides by award winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The largest annual prize for fiction in Canada, The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $40,000 each year to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English and $2,500 to each of the finalists.
		This award was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller.
		Awards inspire other authors to emulate them, expanding the nation’s garden of literary excellence.
	www.bookclubs.ca /browse/browse_winners.html (2194 words)

	Syngin: Fantasy Novel Database: Michael Moorcock Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A multiple winner of the British Fantasy Award, Moorcock is also a World Fantasy Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for his novel Gloriana.
		He won the 1967 Nebula Award for his novella 'Behold the Man.' He has twice won the Derleth Award for Fantasy (for The Sword and the Stallion, and The Hollow Lands), and the Guardian Fiction Prize (1977) for The Condition of Muzak.
		He has been shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread prizes, Britain's most prestigious literary awards.
	www.syngin.com /library/byauthor.php?author_id=22 (507 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)

	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)

	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)

	Poetry Daily Feature: Carol Ann Duffy - Feminine Gospels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955.
		She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she received an honors degree in philosophy in 1977.
		Her poetry publications have received many awards, including both the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for Mean Time, as well as the Lannan Literary Award and the E. Forster Prize.
	www.poems.com /feminduf.htm (204 words)

	Syngin: Fantasy Author Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Among his numerous awards is The Gandalf, the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fantasy, presented in 1976.
		His first fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and the second, Deadhouse Gates, was voted 'one of the 10 best fantasy novels of the year'.
		He has won many awards for his work, including 6 Hugos, which are awarded by science fiction fans, and two Nebulas, awarded by Science Fiction Writers of America.
	www.syngin.com /library/authors.php (5137 words)

	1977 Hugo Award for Novel
		Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning.
		Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and “hard” SF, and won SF’s Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication.
		Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster—a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars.
	www.awardannals.com /award/hugo/novel/1977 (553 words)

	Bainbridge listed for Whitbread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		THE author Beryl Bainbridge, often a bridesmaid but seldom the bride at literary awards, was shortlisted yesterday for the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
		Her novel, Every Man for Himself, won the Whitbread Novel of the Year prize yesterday, putting it on the shortlist for the main Whitbread prize to be given on Jan 21.
		It is a reversal of this year's Booker Prize result when her novel, though shortlisted, was beaten by Graham Swift's Last Orders.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/01/07/nwhit07.html (240 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)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Carol Ann Duffy
		She won the Eric Gregory Award in 1984, the Scottish Art’s Council Book Award for Standing Female Nude, The Other Country and Mean Time.
		In 1988 she received the Somerset Maugham Award for Selling Manhattan and the Forward Price and Whitbread Award for Poetry in 1993 for Mean Time.
		She now lives in Manchester with her partner, the poet and novelist Jackie Kay, and is a Professor in the Creative Writing School at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1337 (675 words)

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