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	Awards
		The Curse of Chalion (2001) by Lois McMaster Bujold (3 awards)
		Shalimar the Clown (2005) by Salman Rushdie (3 awards)
		Mefisto In Onyx (1993) by Harlan Ellison (4 awards)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /awards (1202 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)

	Book Awards for Children's Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	Rich Burridge's Blog : Weblog
		Mildred L. Batchelder Award is awarded 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.
		The Theodor Seuss Geisel 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 Whitbread Award is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK.
	blogs.sun.com /richb/entry/literary_awards (747 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)

	DAWCL Explanation of Awards
		In 2000 it's name was change to the Book Sense Book of the Year Award.
		The award is made to the author and illustrator of a children’s book which combines excellence in both text and illustration.
		Awarded to a book originally published in English twenty years previously that did not receive a major award at the time of its p
	www.dawcl.com /awards.html (2914 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Harry Potter put to flight by darker forces
		JK Rowling's wholesome, multi-million-selling hero was humiliatingly defeated in the £26,000 Whitbread book awards by a clutch of more sombre children's stories - including one about a man who buries abandoned babies "alive or dead ".
		Her early defeat this year was disclosed when five shortlists were announced in the run-up to the awards final in January.
		The authors who - unlike Rowling - succesfully made the Whitbread children's book of the year award are Heaven Eyes, by David Almond; Arthur: the Seeing Stone, by Kevin Crossley-Holland; Coram Boy, by Jamila Gavin; and Troy by Adele Geras.
	books.guardian.co.uk /whitbread2000/story/0,,397635,00.html (673 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)

	Beer writing competition. HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk. UK regional journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The awards are organised by the British Guild of Beer Writers and sponsored by Charles Wells the Bedfordshire brewers of Bombadier and Eagle IPA.
		Four copies of entries published in the 12 months to 30 September, 2000, should be sent by Friday October 6 to Nick Redman, BGBW Awards Chairman, Whitbread plc, Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD.
		The awards will be presented at the annual Beer Banquet at the Ironmongers Hall in London on Wednesday December 6.
	www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /awards/000818beer.shtml (197 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Whitbread celebs oust 'real critics'
		Fascination with celebrity reached a new level yesterday as judges were announced for the finals of Britain's richest prize for general writing, the Whitbread book award.
		For the first time in the 30 years of the awards, half the judges are showbiz, television or sporting faces rather than authors or critics.
		But for this 30th anniversary year, the Whitbread organisers decided to have 10 judges, and to give the extra place to a personality rather than a writer.
	books.guardian.co.uk /whitbread2000/story/0,,411863,00.html (381 words)

	RTE News - Spurling edges out Thompson in Whitbread
		The Whitbread Book of the Year prize has been won by Hilary Spurling for her biography, Matisse the Master.
		It was described by the Whitbread judges as a masterpiece which had already changed the history of art.
		The Whitbread is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Britain and is worth £25,000.
	www.rte.ie /news/2006/0125/whitbread.html (180 words)

	Access Middle School! free references resources: book and literary awards exposed! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The award is given to the illustrator of the most distinguished picture book for children published in the United States during the preceding year.
		Awarded annually by the American Library Association to a fl author and a fl illustrator whose works "encourage and promote" world unity and peace and serve as an inspiration to young people.
		Award to works fostering a better understanding of the people of the world toward the end that wars may be avoided.
	www.middleschool.net /refmater/awards/bkawrds.htm (960 words)

	WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Wizard vs. Dragon: A Close Contest, but the Fire-Breather Wins
		He was not pleased with the 5-to-4 vote, having been a staunch supporter of "Harry Potter." "This exemplifies the gap between the arbiters of literary taste and the appetite of the public for books," he said.
		The Whitbread is a strange sort of prize, in which first-round winners of five different categories are pitted against one another in the final competition for book of the year, as terriers might compete against hounds for best of show in a dog show.
		Commenting on television (in Britain, top literary awards are televised and discussed by panels of celebrities, much the way sports might be televised and discussed by panels of athletes), David Baddiel, a comic writer, called Mr.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/012900whitbread-awards.html (1127 words)

	International Book Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Allen&Unwin - Book Awards - Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	CNN.com - Books - Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates among book award finalists - October 11, 2000
		Award panelists also cited three well-established poets: Kenneth Koch, Kinnell and Lucille Clifton.
		David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the first volume of his biography of W.E.B. Du Bois, was a nonfiction nominee for his sequel about the civil rights pioneer.
		The awards are sponsored by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/books/news/10/11/national.book.awards.ap/index.html (666 words)

	The Whitbread Book Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	ALA \| 2000 Michael L. Printz Award
		The annual award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of ALA, and sponsored by Booklist magazine.
		His is the recipient of a Margaret A. Edwards Award for distinguished contribution to young adult literature.
		She gathered her material by listening to her teenage daughter and her friends as she drove her friends to and from school.
	www.ala.org /ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/previouswinners/2000michaell.cfm (510 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)

	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)

	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).
		2000 Wins Millennium Children's Book Award and Blue Peter Book Award (for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
	www.roalddahlfans.com /awards.php (281 words)

	whitbreadbookoftheyear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards by Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		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)

	Peter Pan Awards - judges: Geraldine McCaughrean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since then, Geraldine has written over 130 books and plays for both adults and children and has won the Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Whitbread Children's Book of the Year (three times), Smarties Bronze (four times), UK Readers' Association Award, and wrote the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2000.
		In 2002, The Kite Rider and Stop the Train were both shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, with the latter being Highly Commended.
		Her most recent novel, The White Darkness, was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Children ’s Book Award.
	www.gosh.org /peterpanawards/judges_Geraldine_Mccaughrean.htm (152 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 book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
		Award for a work of historical fiction from a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/awards (1738 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Susan Sontag wins National Book Award for 'In America' - November 16, 2000
		''To say I'm astonished is an understatement," said the 67-year-old Sontag, who didn't pretend not to enjoy the award, or to say she expected it.
		Sontag, author of such influential nonfiction works as "Against Interpretation" and "Illness as Metaphor," was also criticized for the uncredited borrowing of passages from other sources.
		The poetry prize went to Lucille Clifton for the compilation "Blessing the Boats," and the young people's literature award went to Gloria Whelan for "Homeless Bird," the story of a girl in India married and widowed at age 13.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/16/national.book.awards.ap/index.html (580 words)

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