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  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)

  
 Book Awards for Children's Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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)

  
 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)

  
 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   (3102 words)

  
 AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information and Photographs -- http://www.awardweb.info
Awarded annually for distinguished SF published as a paperback original in the U.S. To the International Fantasy Awards.
The award is adminstered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney.
Sponsored by Vogel's Bread, it is awarded to a writer under 35 years of age for an original unpublished manuscript of fiction or Australian history or biography.
dpsinfo.com /awardweb   (1471 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.
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)

  
 WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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)

  
 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/low/entertainment/1099218.stm   (792 words)

  
 The Whitbread Book Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Whitbread PLC sees itself in the business of providing enjoyment to millions of customers - and enjoyment is at the heart of the philosophy of the Whitbread Book Awards which seek out well-written, enjoyable books.
Unlike these four category Award winners, a panel of three adult judges and two young judges selects a shortlist of four books for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year - but the final judging panel decides the winner.
The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year is then eligible for the £22,500 Whitbread Book of the Year, alongside the winners of the Poetry, Biography, First Novel and Novel Awards.
www.dymocks.com.au /contentstatic/literarymatter/awards/whitbread.asp   (176 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)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards and Fellowships
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)

  
 International Book Awards
To be eligible for the awards a book must be published in the USA but may be written or illustrated by an author or illustrator of any country.
The Newbery Award was established in 1922 and is awarded to an (American) children's author who has contributed to children's literature in the preceding year.
The award was established in 2000 and is awarded to an (American or foreign) author/joint authors, or editorship, who contribute to young adult literature in either fiction, non-fiction, poetry or anthology.
www.det.wa.edu.au /education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/aw3.htm   (1312 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.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1998)
midhudson.org /Awards/whitbread.htm   (421 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   (952 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)

  
 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)

  
 whitbreadbookoftheyear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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)

  
 Allen&Unwin - Book Awards - Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Shortlisted for the 2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the 2001 Dobbie Award for a first published woman author, part of the Nita B Kibble Award.
Shortlisted 2006: Christina Stead Award for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
www.allenandunwin.com /awards/awards_fiction.asp   (1283 words)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Awards
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).
1998 Matilda voted "Nation's Favorite Children's Book" in BBC Bookworm Poll.
www.roalddahlfans.com /awards.php   (281 words)

  
 AmericaOne Challenge - Whitbread News - Leg 6: EF Receives 3 Awards
SÃO SEBASTIÃO, Brazil (March 13, 1998) — Whitbread Round the World Race leader EF Language, skippered by Paul Cayard, captured three awards for its winning performance during the 6,670-nautical-mile Leg 5 from Auckland, New Zealand, to São Sebastião, Brazil.
The Volvo Trophy is presented to the winner of each of the nine legs of the Whitbread Race.
The Roaring Forties Trophy was awarded to the boat collecting the most points between Cape Town, South Africa, and São Sebastião, which covered Legs 2 through 5.
www.americaone.org /whitbread/wbrace-980313.html   (188 words)

  
 Literary Awards Database Search
Database is searchable by author, title, award, and year.
The National Book Awards; 48 Years of Literary Excellence, Winners and Finalists, 1950-1997
Literary Prizes, Awards etc. From the Canterbury Public Library
www.ramsaybooks.com /littera/awards.html   (90 words)

  
 CVCO - Overbooked: Awards
Specializing in speculative fiction awards, but numerous other links are provided.
The Christy Award is named in honor of Catherine Marshall’s novel, Christy, and of her contribution to growth of the fiction Christians love to read.
Links to award sites, and annotated lists of nominees and winners from 1996 to the present (fiction only).
freenet.vcu.edu /education/literature/links/awards.html   (336 words)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards by Last Name
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.
Barth, who is professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
Winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.
www.lannan.org /lf/lit/awards-list/by-last-name/12214   (1005 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Whitbread Book of the Year Award celebrates the best of contemporary British writing.
The Whitbread awards are given in 5 categories: Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature to authors who have lived in Great Britian or Ireland for at least three years.
Out of these four winners, one book is chosen as the Whitbread Book of the Year.
www.arq.net /~coolapple1/whitbread.html   (143 words)

  
 Australian Film Commission: Searchable Film Database
The children discover that there is an entrance to the Balanced Particle Freeway just outside their back gate and it catapults them from school holiday boredom into high adventure.
Database includes Australian and co-produced features, TV drama and documentaries from 1990 and shorts from 1998.
Titles are not listed where the sales contact is unknown.
www.afc.gov.au /filmsandawards/filmdbsearch.aspx?view=title&title=ADVEOT   (158 words)

  
 Allen&Unwin - Book Awards - Children&Teenagers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Nicholson's books have been recognized in the Eve Pownall award 9 times in 9 years, his books have also won Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing, the Wilderness Society's Environment Award and WA Premier's Literature awards.
Winner of the Alan Marshall Award for Children's Literature in the 1993 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
Guus Kuijer was nominated for the 2006 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
www.allenandunwin.com /awards/awards_kids.asp   (2811 words)

  
 Literary Awards - Contemporary Writers
1998: Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland (shortlist)
John Ederyn Hughes Rural Wales Award for Literature
Lakeland Book of the Year Award (Ron Sands Prize)
www.contemporarywriters.com /awards/?&skip=1400   (366 words)

  
 Harry Potter Book Awards - Harry Potter at Catch The Snitch
Critics and readers of all ages and nationalities have praised the Harry Potter books.
The following are just some of the awards the books have received:
FCBG Children's Book Award 1998 Overall winner and Longer Novel Category
www.catchthesnitch.com /books/awards   (221 words)

  
 Queer Book Awards
So far, we know of no book award specifically for queer theorists, so the goal would seem to be to queer the awards that are out there already.
Of course, there are awards for LGBT writers and themes:
The FABs were started in 1996 by a group of book industry professionals to celebrate and publicize the best in alternative publishing.
www.queertheory.com /academics/awards.cfm   (163 words)

  
 Awards - Arthur A. Levine Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
British Book Awards 1998 Children's Book of the Year (NIBBY)
Nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature, 1999
Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award
www.arthuralevinebooks.com /awards.asp   (974 words)

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