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  children and Young Adult Book Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The award was established by the Council in 1977, and until 1982 it was given annually.
Awards given to Non-Fiction books that are evaluated each year by organizations such as the American Library Association and the National Council for the Social Studies.
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)

  
 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)

  
 YBP Library Services -- provider of books and supporting collection management and technical services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This award is given to an outstanding picture book for young children--a book in which the text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole.
Established in 1966, the award is a citation given 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 is given annually to books (and also articles and booklets written in English or translated into English) dealing primarily with physics and astronomy, and directed at children from preschool age up to fifteen years of age.
www.ybp.com /ybp/ChildrensAwards/annotations0903.html   (3988 words)

  
 Awards & Prizes Links
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.
The American Booksellers Association awards (formerly the ABBY Award) are given each year to the "hidden treasures" in the adult and children's book categories that ABA bookstore members most enjoyed recommending to their customers during the previous year.
The Edgar Allan Poe awards (the "Edgars") are named after MWA's patron saint, Edgar Allan Poe, and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre.
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 NMSU Library Award Winning Books
Awards are for authors under 35 and commonwealth citizens for a first novel of a traditional or romantic nature.
The Booker Prize Awards are the Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland's annual award for the outstanding novel in fiction.
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)

  
 List of Prizes, Medals, And Awards Encyclopedia Article @ Populace.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Korean awards for the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind
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.
Lenin Prize -- formerly awarded to Soviet citizens for achievements in arts and letters, cinema, mathematics, sciences and other disciplines.
www.populace.org /encyclopedia/List_of_prizes,_medals,_and_awards   (754 words)

  
 1982 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 1982.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1982_Whitbread_Awards   (114 words)

  
 Awards » The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1957 the awards were put under the administration of the Canada Council for the Arts and a cash prize began to be awarded to the winner.
It is awarded to an author whose “fame does not yet match their talent.” In 1970 the Prix Médicis étranger, a foreign prize, was added to award a writer each year from around the world.
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award given for the writer of an unpublished manuscript for writers under the age of 35.
literaryawards.vertebratesilence.com /awards   (3888 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:1977_Whitbread_Awards
The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards.
The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread plc, a leading British leisure company.
The awards, 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.
www.qwika.com /rels/1977_Whitbread_Awards   (777 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners
The PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States.
The award was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and is affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization.
The Whitbread awards are given annually in five categories: Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature to authors who exemplify the best of contemporary British writing and who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for at least three years.
www.powells.com /prizes/prizes.html   (1025 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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 Literary Awards, a beginners guide to. Book Prizes - What do they mean? The Booker, Whitbread, Orange Prize, The ...
The awards are given in five categories (Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature) to authors who exemplify the best of contemporary British writing and who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for at least three years.There is a panel of 3 judges in each category who select a short list and winner.
The Kiriyama Prize is awarded in recognition of outstanding books that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim (East and Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and the Pacific-bordering nations of Latin America) and of the South Asian subcontinent.
This award is limited to an unpublished manuscript for any Australian author under the age of 35.Targetted at encouraging young Australian writers, it is promoted by The Australian newspaper and sponsored by Vogels Bread.
www.book-club.co.nz /features/awards.htm   (3031 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.
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.
Awards (gold, silver, and notable) are given for books written for children and youth that authentically portray the Jewish experience.
www.tarleton.edu /~cwilterding/awards.htm   (2293 words)

  
 The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 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)

  
 The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The award, previously known as Whitbread Awards, is one of the most prestigious awards in the United Kingdom, and is given to a work that is both of high literary merit, as well as a good read.
The annual prize, awarded in altogether seven categories in both French and English, is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes.
The annual prize, which was established in 1973 by the Australian novelist Patrick White with the money he received for his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, is given to a writer who has not received adequate recognition despite of his or her long literary career.
literaryawards.vertebratesilence.com   (1802 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)

  
 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)

  
 English - Syracuse University Library
It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction "The annual award of $5,000 goes to a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults.
Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic "Presented annually to a Canadian writer who has had published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction any time during the previous calendar year.
library.syr.edu /research/internet/english/prizes.htm   (1112 words)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a list of all the awards Roald Dahl won (that I know of), organized by year.
1978 Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award (for Danny the Champion of the World).
1982 Wins Federation of Children's Book Groups Award (for The BFG) and Massachusetts Children's Award (for James and the Giant Peach).
www.roalddahlfans.com /awards.php   (281 words)

  
 Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 LimeBooks.co.uk: The Travel Book Awards 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Travel Book Award was started in 1980 by the Thomas Cook Group, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing.
Each book submitted must follow certain criteria; they must be travel narrative books only with a minimum length of 150 pages.
In 1982 while still a schoolboy, Patrick French met the Dalai Lama.
www.limebooks.co.uk /features/the-travel-book-awards-2004   (443 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)

  
 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.
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 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.
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin (1982)
midhudson.org /Awards/whitbread.htm   (421 words)

  
 Whitbread Book Awards: Best First Novel on Lists of Bests
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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   (132 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
1984 Joint Award: J. Ballard for Empire Of The Sun
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)

  
 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)

  
 AbeBooks - PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Books
The PEN/Faulkner Award lets writers award their peers for excellence in writing.
A panel of three American novelists judge over two hundred entries each year.
AbeBooks, AbeBooks.com, and "Because You Read" are registered trademarks with the Registered US Patent and Trademark Office.
www.abebook.com /docs/Community/AwardWinners/penFaulkner.shtml   (130 words)

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