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  Whitbread Book Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Whitread Book Awards are on of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards.
The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread PLC a leading British leisure and brewing company.
The awards are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/w/wh/whitbread_book_awards.html   (190 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: 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)

  
 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)

  
 Where do I find Whitbread Book Awards information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
They were run-of-the-mill as the Whitbread Awards till 2006, when Costa Coffee took by sponsorship.
The awards, seted afloat in 1971, are both for giant literary merit but to boot for authoritys that are slaking construction und whose aim is to the diversion of construction to the widest workable audience.
The all-embracing Whitbread essay of the year of achievement is preferential by a judging panel that comprises five judges from the department annular und four fresh ones.
en.cd-sealed.info /Whitbread_Book_Awards   (535 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)

  
 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)

  
 North Kingstown Free Library Readers' Web Sites - Literary Awards
Shamus Awards – Created in 1981, the Shamus Award is given by the Private Eye Writers of America to honor excellent work in the Private Eye genre.
Nebula Awards – Since 1965, the Nebula Awards, chosen by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story in science fiction.
New England Book Awards – Established in 1990 by the New England Booksellers Association, the purpose of these awards is to promote New England authors and publishers who have produced a body of work that stands as a significant contribution to New England’s culture.
web.provlib.org /nkilib/readers/links/awards.htm   (712 words)

  
 The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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)

  
 Awards Watch Watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The awards, in their 10th year will be presented on 17/12/2005..
The 36-year-old star received the award at the ceremony in London honouring Black British artists for her OSCAR nominated role in Hotel Rwanda..
Dr Who is nominated for three awards at this years NTS awards due on the 25th October..
www.thereviewbox.com /interweb/e-xrenderb.asp?FILE=awards/xml_files/awardswatch2005to2006_2.xml   (2226 words)

  
 khnl - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
With all the changes, KHNL successfully mounted a challenge to the top ratings that rival KHON had held for decades.
In 1996, KHNL won the first Emmy Award for a local news broadcast.
The following year, the station struck a deal with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper to share polling services.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/khnl   (343 words)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards and Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989, and to date, over 153 writers hav been awarded in lifetime achievement, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and most recently, an especially notable book award.
The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality.
Candidates for the awards and fellowships are recommended to the foundation by a network of writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors.
www.lannan.org /lf/lit/awards-and-fellowships   (1158 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)

  
 Costa Book Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The awards, which recognise some of the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland, were established by Whitbread, the UK’s leading leisure business, in 1971.
Whitbread PLC is the pre-eminent business in the UK’s £172 billion leisure sector with a portfolio of market-leading brands in hotels, eating out, and health and fitness – including Marriott and Travel Inn hotels, Brewers Fayre and David Lloyd Leisure.
The overall Whitbread Book of the Year is selected from the five category Award winners with the winner receiving a further £25,000.
www.costabookawards.com /press.cfm?page=69&id=24   (4151 words)

  
 WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Whitbread Book Awards, established in 1971, aim to celebrate and promote the best of British writing.
The winners of the Awards for Poetry, Biography, Novel and First Novel are selected in each case by a panel of three judges.
The Award for First Novel was initiated in 1981.
home.comcast.net /~netaylor1/whitbreadfirstnovel.html   (49 words)

  
 literaryawards
Each of these sections are further broken down into general awards, juvenile, poetry, drama, short story and library prizes.
Small descriptions of each award and their history are also given.
The website for this UK award features an archive of past winners and the "A Year in Books" section provides additional links to important festivals, awards and other important literary events taking place during the year.
www.library.uiuc.edu /egx/literaryawards.html   (479 words)

  
 Costa Book Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Costa Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards.
They were known as the Whitbread Awards until 2006, when Costa Coffee took over sponsorship.
In 1989, controversy erupted when the judges first awarded the Best Novel prize to Alexander Stuart's The War Zone, then withdrew the prize prior to the ceremony amid acrimony among the judges, ultimately awarding it to Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitbread_Book_Awards   (400 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.
One of the uses these awards have for me is to bring new books to my attention.
glyphs.gardenweb.com /forums/load/paradise/msg111059011547.html   (1648 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)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards by Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
William Merwin was the recipient of the 2004 Lannan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award.
A veteran of the Vietnam American War, his internationally published writings are those of a longtime antiwar activist, advocate for the homeless, and promoter of social change.
She has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and she is the 2003 winner of the Sara Teasdale Award.
www.lannan.org /lf/lit/awards-list/by-year   (2161 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   (1158 words)

  
 Book Awards - Kids @ Burlington Public Library, Ontario, Canada
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.
There are six awards in total - five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's) and, from these, one overall winner - the Whitbread Book of the Year.
www.bpl.on.ca /kids/books/award/whitbread.htm   (109 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   (325 words)

  
 Second Story Book Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lambda Literary Awards / Lesbian Poetry / 2006 - 1989
Lambda Literary Awards / Anthologies / Nonfiction / 2005 - 1995
Lambda Literary Awards / Transgender / 2006 - 1997
www.secondstorybookshop.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=CF39A382641B26EB6BA2635A2583002A.t5?s=awards   (754 words)

  
 J T Black Memorial Fiction Prize
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)

  
 Tattered Cover Book Store
Bram Stoker Award / Non-fiction 2004 - 1991
Lambda Literary Awards / Erotica / 2006 - 2002
SPUR Awards / Storyteller Award / 2006 - 2000
www.tatteredcover.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=aMjT2sjbBHKc?s=awards   (2012 words)

  
 Secret Garden Bookshop
Click on an award for more information -- including a list of honorees that dates back to the award's inception.
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction / 2004 - 1981
Whitbread Prize / Book of the Year / 2004 - 1996
www.secretgardenbooks.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=B184FED56F97929F0AC5373555749FE4.t2?s=awards   (722 words)

  
 Best Sellers and Literary Awards
Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Awarded annually as the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
WARNING: You are about to leave the pages created and maintained by the Sterling Municipal Library.
www.sml.lib.tx.us /literaryAwards.htm   (112 words)

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