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	children and Young Adult Book Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	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		This award is limited to an unpublished manuscript for any Australian author under the age of 35.Targetted at encouraging young Australian writers, it is promoted by The Australian newspaper and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)

	International Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Awarded biannually by the International Board on Books for Young People to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.
		Awarded biannually by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the illustrators of the most distinguished books for children published in Israel.
		Awarded annuallly by the Swedish government to honor the memory of Astrid Lindgren and promote children's and youth literature around the world.
	www.hbook.com /awards/international.asp (462 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)

	2003 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 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_Whitbread_Awards (155 words)

	Syncope Trust And Reflex anoxic Seizures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The awards ceremony was held at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London on the 3rd September 2003.
		This award is presented to the individual judged to have achieved the highest degree of prominence in the sector over the last year.
		Awarded to the individual judged to have provided his/her organisation with the highest degree of direction and success, leading the organisation in terms of standards and innovation.
	www.stars.org.uk /awards.html (1288 words)

	Volunteering england - Mission, aims and values (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whitbread is the leisure business in the UK, employing 70,000 people in leading brands in the hotel, restaurant and active leisure markets.
		Whitbread has a long tradition of recognising and rewarding the outstanding achievements of volunteers.
		For 2003, the Whitbread awards have been re-launched as the new Whitbread Young Achiever awards, in association with the Home Office and National Centre for Volunteering.
	www.employeevolunteering.org.uk /case_studies/details.asp?id=153 (1025 words)

	Biographer wins Whitbread battle of the spouses - smh.com.au
		Taking sides in an unusual contest between husband and wife - and in a literary battle between young and old - the judges of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Awards chose the biographer Claire Tomalin over her playwright and novelist husband, Michael Frayn, as the winner of the £25,000 ($70,000) book of the year prize.
		The two books were among five finalists for the Whitbread prize, which has winners in five categories: novels, first novels, poetry, biography and children's books.
		The Whitbread judges called it "a superb biography by a writer at the height of her powers" and a "humane and compassionate portrait".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/29/1043804406594.html (523 words)

	Book awards — Whitbread Awards 2004
		Established by Whitbread PLC — one of the UK's leading leisure companies — in 1971, the Whitbread Book Awards 'celebrate the most enjoyable British writing of the last year'.
		This year's awards were marked by a record number of entries — 468 in total — including the highest ever entry in the Children's Book Awards (111) and the shortlists include three former Whitbread winners.
		The overall winner of the £25,000 Whitbread Book of the Year will be announced on Tuesday 27th January 2004 at an awards ceremony to be held at The Brewery in London.
	www.lindsayandcroft.com /awards_whitbread2003.asp (315 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment
		The Whitbread, to be decided on Jan 27, is an eccentric and unpredictable award open to any category of writer.
		Yesterday, Vernon God Little was picked as winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Novel Award.
		D J Taylor's Orwell: The Life won the Biography Award; Don Paterson's Landing Light the Poetry Award; and David Almond's The Fire-Eaters the Children's Book Award.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/01/04/bowhitbread.xml (676 words)

	Book News Archive 2003, January - March
		This award was instigated in an attempt to encourage New Zealand booksellers and readers to recognise that NZ popular fiction is as equally good as the overseas titles and that booksellers will promote NZ titles alongside international popular fiction titles in their book shops.
		This award is administered by the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) and sponsored by the Alfred and Isabel and Marian Reed Trust.
		The 2002 Whitbread category winners were announced yesterday in London and for the first time a married couple featured on the shortlist.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /new/archive/2003-01-03.html (6917 words)

	The Year in American Soccer, 2003
		2003 represented a changing of the guard as many of the World Cup veterans and others who had taken to soccer during the NASL heyday, retired and were replaced by a new generation dominated by products of the P-40 and other player development programs.
		As Paul Gardner pointed out, this is not necessarily due to lack of quality in MLS which by 2003 had attained a respectable competitive level, as illustrated by its increasing role as a breeding ground for the burgeoning new talent making its way to overseas leagues.
		The U-17 World Cup in Finland was an opportunity to see how the US player development program was advancing after the success of the 1999 Cup in which the US, playing for the first time with the products of the new Project 2010 initiatives, had their best performance in years.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/year/2003.html (12323 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Radcliffe alumnae are recognized for accomplishments
		The recipients of these awards will participate in the symposium, which is free and open to the public.
		The award, which honors former Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (now the Radcliffe Association) executive director Jane Rainie Opel '50 for her 18 years of service, is presented annually to an alumna in the 10th reunion class for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of women, to her profession, or to the Institute.
		In 1999, Fels received the Cambridge Peace and Justice Award and a Swiss Army Knife Equipped Award, given nationally to people who "exhibit resolve and leadership in overcoming difficult tasks." In 2001, the Cambridge YWCA honored her at its Tribute to Outstanding Women.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/05.29/11-radcliffe.html (2038 words)

	Bookreporter.com - 2003 Whitbread Awards Winners
		The Whitbread is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK.
		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.
		An overall Whitbread Book of the Year winner will be selected from the other five winners and will be announced on January 28.
	www.bookreporter.com /features/2003-whitbread.asp (227 words)

	h20boro lib blog
		Bookbuffet also provides a handy list of book awards winners for 2003.
		Whitbread Awards (U.K.), which will be announced 27 January (shortlist available)
		Pen/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize in Letters, and the Nebula Prizes (Science Fiction), all of of which will be announced April 2004
	www.waterborolibrary.org /2003/12/book-awards-2003.htm (105 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)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		Mark Haddon won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Doubleday, 2003).
		The finalists for the Book of the Year Award were the winners of 2003 Whitbread Book Awards, which were given in five categories: Haddon (novel), Don Paterson for Landing Light (poetry), DBC Pierre for Vernon God Little (first novel), DJ Taylor for Orwell: The Life (biography), and David Almond for The Fire-Eaters (children’s book).
		The awards are given for books published in the UK or Ireland.
	www.pw.org /mag/is_haddon.htm (113 words)

	Caithness CWS - Front Page Bulletins - Febraury 2003 - Whitbread Awards for Young People
		The awards are run in association with the Home Office and the National Centre for Volunteering, with support for individual awards from - TGI Friday’s (Whitbread Young Community Achiever), Marriott Hotels (Whitbread Young Environment Achiever) and Sport England (Whitbread Young Sports Achiever).
		They are a development from the highly successful and prestigious Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards which became known as the Oscars of the volunteering world during the 20 years of their existence.
		Young people are Whitbread’s lifeblood, with tens of thousands of young people working for us, and even more eating in our restaurants, staying in our hotels and working out in our gyms.
	www.caithness.org /fpb/february2003/whitbread.htm (419 words)

	Bookreporter.com - 2004 Whitbread Awards Winners
		The Whitbread Book Awards is the prize that highlights some of the many well-written, enjoyable British books published during the past year.
		The Awards were launched in 1971 by Whitbread PLC, which is now one of the UK’s leading leisure companies.
		The 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year, the overall winner from these categories, will be announced on January 25th.
	www.bookreporter.com /features/2004-whitbread.asp (195 words)

	LimeBooks.co.uk: The Man Booker Prize 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The shortlisted books will be announced in September and the Awards dinner in October will reveal the winner of the Booker Prize 2004.
		Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school.
		The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust.
	www.limebooks.co.uk /features/the-man-booker-prize-2003 (324 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)

	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)

	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 (1660 words)

	the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 10 January 2003 Archive
		To make things modestly more exciting (hey, they're book awards, they can only be so exciting...) Frayn's wife, Claire Tomalin, was the winner in the biography category -- and so they get to square off for the ultimate prize, the Whitbread book of the year (to be announced 28 January).
		It isn't completely clear to us how the selection process works; we hope there will be an explanatory essay (or a couple of tell-all pieces by the judges) such as there was for the 1993 list, when Bill Buford revealed some of what went on behind the scenes.
		The first two reviews of 2003 are of Hungarian novels: Imre Kertész's A kudarc and Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight.
	www.complete-review.com /saloon/archive/200301a.htm (5576 words)

	Powell's Books - Award Winners - Whitbread Book of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	LimeBooks.co.uk: The Travel Book Awards 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		The Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction
	www.limebooks.co.uk /features/the-travel-book-awards-2004 (443 words)

	CILIP \| CILIP IS OFFICIAL PARTNER IN WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS FOR THIRD YEAR : Youth Libraries Group represented on ...
		Outright winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award 2003 was Mark Haddon for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Jonathan Cape).
		Introducing the 2003 Whitbread Book Awards, Whitbread PLC Chairman Sir John Banham pointed out that last year’s outright winner, Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self, by Claire Tomalin ended up in the overall best seller lists for the year.
		The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in a children’s book.
	www.cilip.org.uk /aboutcilip/newsandpressreleases/archive2004/news040129.htm (567 words)

	Allen&Unwin - Book Awards - Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shortlisted 2003: Aurealis Award in the Fantasy and Young Adult categories.
		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.
	www.allenandunwin.com /awards/awards_fiction.asp (1414 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)

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