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  YBP Library Services -- provider of books and supporting collection management and technical services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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)

  
 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)

  
 1992 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 1992.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1992_Whitbread_Awards   (114 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)

  
 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: 2007-10-20)
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)

  
 Bookreporter.com - Book Awards
The Award honors excellence in the Private Eye genre, which is defined by the PWA as a work featuring a protagonist who is a professional investigator, but not a police officer or government agent.
The Rea Award for the Short Story was founded in 1986 by Michael Rea, the award recognizes authors whose work has made a "significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form," and is the only accolade presented in the United States exclusively for short fiction.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. The winners of the 2003 Nebula Awards were announced during a ceremony at The Westin Seattle in Seattle, Washington, on April 17, 2004.
www.bookreporter.com /features/awards.asp   (3457 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)

  
 Locus Online: Claude Lalumière reviews the Best of 1992
1992 was a strong year for SF and fantasy.
Snow Crash was shortlisted for the BSFA Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Prometheus Award.
This dreamlike novel was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and, in 2002, was elected to the Hall of Fame of the Gaylactic Network Spectrum Awards.
www.locusmag.com /2003/Reviews/Lalumiere01_1992Best.html   (2007 words)

  
 WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 2002 award for poetry was announced on January 8, 2003.
home.comcast.net /~netaylor1/whitbreadpoetry.html   (51 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)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Whitbread winners square up
Novelists Matthew Kneale and Zadie Smith have won two of the coveted Whitbread Book Awards and are shortlisted for the overall Whitbread Book of the Year.
Her debut novel White Teeth has already won the Guardian First Book Award and was on the shortlist for the Orange Prize last June.
The Whitbread awards are now in their 30th year, although the Book of the Year category was not introduced until 1985.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1099218.stm   (752 words)

  
 Iris Murdoch - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
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.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000023110,00.html   (366 words)

  
 Wikinfo | 1992 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature.
See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1992_in_literature   (247 words)

  
 owenbookseller.com :: Mysteries and Modern First Editions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When the body of a beautiful showgirl is found on a hillside, Wesley leads the investigation into her murder.
The astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
Curtis Colt, convicted of the brutal slaying of an elderly liquor store owner, will be the first man in over a quarter of a century to die in Missouri's electric chair.
www.owenbookseller.com /store/catalog/subjects/Awards   (3284 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)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards by Last Name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A Middleton Fellow at the University of Southern California, he is the recipient of the 2001 PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Award and a 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship.
Her novel, If I Told You Once, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in the United States and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the United Kingdom.
She lives in San Francisco and is at Princeton University for the Fall 2005 semester as a Council of the Humanities Fellow.
www.lannan.org /lf/lit/awards-list/by-last-name/12214   (1005 words)

  
 whitbreadbookoftheyear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Established in 1971, the Whitbread Book Awards are now in their 30th year.
The Awards actively promote the enjoyment of reading, working in partnership with amazon.co.uk, CILIP (previously the Library Association), the National Reading Campaign and the Booksellers Association.
It has already won numerous children’s and teenage fiction awards and was initially entered for the Children’s Book Award as well, but was withdrawn by the publishers in preference to the Novel Award.
home.comcast.net /~netaylor1/whitbreadbookoftheyear.html   (158 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - Whitbread Book of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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)

  
 MIT News Office: 1992 archive
Ziporyn Receives Wade Award, '58 Professorship - Assistant Professor Evan Ziporyn of the Music and Theater Arts Section is the recipient of both the 1992 Wade Award and the Class of 1958 Career Development Professorship.
President Calls For Merit-Based Funding - Federal funds for scientific research and facilities should be awarded to research universities primarily on the basis of merit, the president of MIT said.
Krugman is Awarded John Bates Clark Medal - Professor Paul R. Krugman of the Department of Economics has received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given biannually by the American Economic Association.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1992/1992-archive.html   (7813 words)

  
 American Book Awards - Burnaby Public Library
The award is chosen by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with funds provided by Whitbread Breweries.
The award is administered by The Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with funds provided by Whitbread Breweries.
The Book of the Year is chosen from the winners in the five award categories, not just fiction.
www.bpl.burnaby.bc.ca /fiction/briawa.htm   (390 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)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards by Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
His awards include the Paterson Poetry Prize, Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yaddo Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Poet’s Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
She is a recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Prior awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Award, the Tietjens Prize and the Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine, and four Pushcart Prizes.
www.lannan.org /lf/lit/awards-list/by-year   (2311 words)

  
 Hirshfield, Maxwell in Poetry Readings Feb. 20
Jane Hirshfield is the author of five collections of poetry, including "Given Sugar, Given Salt," finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award; "The Lives of the Heart" (1997); and "Of Gravity and Angels" (1988).
Among Maxwell's other works are "Out of the Rain" (1992), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; "Rest for the Wicked" (1995), a finalist for both the Whitbread and the T. Eliot awards; and "The Breakage" (1998), a finalist for the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection Award.
In 1997, he was awarded the E.M. Forster Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
www.loc.gov /today/pr/2003/03-021.html   (380 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.
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 William Trevor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Felicia's Journey (1994) won both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Sunday Express Book of the Year awards.
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.
In 1992 he received The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence and in 1999 the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
www.irishwriters-online.com /williamtrevor.html   (259 words)

  
 Antigone Books
Click on an award for more information -- including a list of honorees that dates back to the award's inception.
Lambda Literary Awards / Transgender / 2006 - 1997
Lambda Literary Awards / Erotica / 2006 - 2002
www.antigonebooks.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (884 words)

  
 William Trevor - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
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.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000016878,00.html   (245 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.
This British prize does not have an age limit for the author.
www.bookawards.bizland.com /whsmith_literary_awards.htm   (245 words)

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