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	WH Smith Award
		Founded in 1959 to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth," the WH Smith award is for an author whose book "makes, in the opinion of the judges, the most significant contribution to literature." Authors from the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, or the Irish Republic are eligible.
		The remaining award is the W H Smith Literary Award, chosen by expert judges.
		It is, in effect, the continuation of the traditional W H Smith Award.
	facstaff.unca.edu /moseley/smith.html (189 words)

	W H Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		WH Smith plc (LSE: SMWH) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, England.
		After the death of W H Smith the younger, his widow was created Viscountess Hambleden in her own right; their son inherited the business from his father and the Viscountcy from his mother.
		W H Smith is the sponsor of the WH Smith Literary Award, which has been running since 1959 and is one of the most wide-ranging of literary prizes, admitting works of all genres from authors of all ages and both genders from across the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/W_H_Smith (1451 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Melvyn Bragg banks book award
		The broadcaster and writer won the WH Smith Literary Award 2000 for his acclaimed book The Soldier's Return, which is published next week.
		Literary giants shortlisted for the award included J M Coetzee for his book Disgrace which won him the Commonwealth Writer's prize and the Booker Prize for the second time.
		Other authors shortlisted for W H Smith's 42nd prize literary award were Joanna Bourke for An Intimate History of Killing, Howard Jacobson for The Mighty Walzer, Francis Wheen for Karl Marx and Ann Wroe for Pilate.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/745356.stm (377 words)

	The Kenyon Review —News—Ian McEwan to Receive Award
		The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement will be presented to McEwan at a gala dinner on Thursday, November 9, at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City.
		Members of the literary community and other luminaries are expected to be on hand, including past winners of the award.
		The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement was first presented in 2002 to novelist E.L. Doctorow, a 1952 graduate of Kenyon, who is known for such works as The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and Loon Lake and more recently for The March.
	www.kenyonreview.org /news/10-8-06.php (473 words)

	Penguin UK
		Smith brings alive five characters, one of whom is dead, during one night in a hotel and traces their intersecting lives, examining the themes of time, chance, money and death.
		Jamie Oliver has been awarded the WH Smith Literary Award in the Home and Leisure category, beating Nigella Lawson, Rick Stein and none other than The Prince of Wales in the process.
		The award, which is dedicated to the British Ambassador assassinated in Dublin in 1976, is given to a book, play or piece of journalism, which is considered to have promoted a greater understanding between the people of Britain and Ireland, or co-operation within the European Community.
	www.penguin.co.uk /static/packages/uk/today/previous.html (6768 words)

	Alice Munro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Internationally, she has won the WH Smith Literary Award in the UK; the National Book Critics Circle Award and the O.
		Henry Award for Continuing Achievement in Short Fiction in the U.S.; the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; the Rea Award for the Short Story; and the Libris Award.
		The award, given annually for a body of work of literary excellence was presented to Munro was at a ceremony in New York hosted by novelist Russell Banks that included tributes by former winner Margaret Atwood and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham [3].
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Alice_Munro (1179 words)

	Obituary - Anthony Dymoke Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On leaving the Army at the end of 1945 AP returned to the life of a novelist and literary critic and in 1951 published A Question of Upbringing, the first volume of what was to become his 12-volume masterwork A Dance to the Music of Time which was published over the ensuing almost 25 years.
		Powell was a book reviewer and literary critic for a number of periodicals including the Daily Telegraph (variously from 1937 to 1990), the Times Literary Supplement, Punch (where he was Literary Editor from 1953 to 1959) and the Spectator.
		Powell was awarded the CBE in 1956 and made a Companion of Honour in 1988.
	www.anthonypowell.org.uk /ap/apobit.htm (578 words)

	Bexley Council - Libraries - Adult Book Awards
		First awarded in 1959, the WH Smith Literary Award celebrates good books from all genres of literature and has been won by some of the leading names of 20th century literature.
		Each year it is given to the book that, in the opinion of the panel of judges, has made the most outstanding contribution to literature in the year under review.
		The award was innovative for its time, being the first Award that had no age limit for the author and was not limited to novels, poetry or biography, but covered the widest literary field.
	www.bexley.gov.uk /service/lib-whsmithaward.html (291 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Tartt wins WH Smith prize
		The bestselling American writer Donna Tartt scooped her first British book prize last night after winning the £5,000 WH Smith literary award.
		Tartt, 40, told the awards ceremony in London that the victory was a special honour because "the Little Friend is a love letter to the British novels of my childhood: Stevenson, Barrie, Dickens, Kipling and all the rest".
		Although the literary award is chosen by judges, other WH Smith prizes are chosen by votes via the company's bookstores or online and tend to mirror bestseller lists or titles given the best display in the stores.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,917221,00.html (278 words)

	the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 11 - 20 February 2004 Archive
		The protest isn't specifically literary or even just cultural, but far more comprehensive -- and pointedly political (Pétition contre Raffarin et sa "guerre à l'intelligence" is the headline for Vanessa Schneider's article in Libération).
		We never really paid attention before he was awarded the Nobel prize, but once he had we constantly read what a reclusive kind of guy J.M.Coetzee was.
		Relevant, too, is the book's title, a last echo of the false, fragile bravado by which he had heretofore signified what he could not otherwise say.
	www.complete-review.com /saloon/archive/200402b.htm (3843 words)

	A Glimpse of the World: John Fowles is Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Fowles, the novelist who died on Saturday aged 79, combined a rare narrative instinct with a scholar’s interest in literary form; as a result he enjoyed the unusual distinction of both professorial attention and enormous sales.
		A solitary man who shunned both the London literati and the society of his neighbours at Lyme Regis, Fowles was concerned, above all, with the existential freedom of the individual, with his scope for choice and the energy with which he wrestled with the mysteries of existence.
		Highly experimental both in its form and its erudition, the book won the WH Smith literary award and the International Association of Poets, Playwrights and Novelists Silver Pen Award.
	www.howardwfrench.com /archives/2005/11/08/john_fowles_is_dead (1826 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| UK \| JK 'honoured' by literary award
		JK Rowling has won loads of children's awards in the past but on Tuesday her latest book won a major adult award.
		Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won the WH Smith Adult Literary award, beating Whitbread Book winning author Mark Haddon.
		JK said "I am honoured to receive this award, unabashed adult Harry Potter fans are very dear to my heart".
	news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_3517000/3517786.stm (130 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Rowling wins first adult prize
		She triumphed by public vote in the £5,000 WH Smith fiction award.
		Some 148,000 people voted via the WH Smith website or in stores.
		The WH Smith literary award, the only one decided by judges, went to the US novelist Richard Powers for his The Time of Our Singing, about three generations of a mixed-race family from the 1930s onwards.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1170789,00.html (233 words)

	extracts
		Michèle Roberts was born in 1949 to a French mother and English father and brought up in Edgeware, North London.
		Her 1992 novel Daughters of the House was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award.
		She was Theatre Writer in Residence at Essex University in 1986-87 when her play The Journeywoman was first performed at the Mercury Theatre, and is now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
	privatewww.essex.ac.uk /~extracts/InterviewMicheleRoberts.htm (1490 words)

	NRIOL.COM - Snippets - Vikram Seth gets British title
		The British Culture Secretary Chris Smith presented the honour to Seth for his services to literature.
		Vikram has received rave reviews for his work around the globe and has been likened to literary greats of the English language.
		His earlier awards include The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and WH Smith Literary Award.
	www.nriol.com /content/snippets/archives/500/snippet406.html (201 words)

	Welcome to book-worm.biz - Adstock book Club
		Among them are the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.
		This is a story about a young photographer who returns to her family home for her fathers wedding after her flat mysteriously burns down.
		Her novels are set for GCSE and A Level and her play ‘The Woman in Black’ has been running in the West End for 15 years.
	www.book-worm.biz /adstock.htm (2498 words)

	the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 10 June 2003 Archive
		We're actually surprised used sales don't make up a bigger percentage of the market -- and we note that about one-fifth of all the books bought at Amazon.com by users via our link with them are so-called 'marketplace' (i.e.
		T.J.Binyon was awarded the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize yesterday for his biographical work, Pushkin.
		WH Smith, however, has taken a different tack.
	www.complete-review.com /saloon/archive/200306a.htm (4060 words)

	The Believer - Zadie Smith talks with Ian McEwan
		His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award (2002), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).
		Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975, and continues to live in the area.
		Her second novel The Autograph Man won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200508/?read=interview_mcewan (1477 words)

	PETERSBURG PERSPECTIVES - FIGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War (1989) and A People's Tragedy (1997) which, among other awards, won the Wolfson History Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
		His latest book Natasha's Dance (2002) a cultural history of Russia, was praised in The Times for its 'magnificent sweep and scholarship'.
		Their world - the literary myth of St Petersburg - has played as important a role in shaping perceptions of the city as tsars and communists alike.'
	www.fontanka.co.uk /figes.html (154 words)

	ITV - Melvyn Bragg
		Bragg has also written books on a number of different subjects including a biography of Richard Burton, an oral history of the twentieth century called Speak For England and On Giants' Shoulders, a history of science based on his BBC radio series.
		There are 22 editions a year and it has won more than 120 awards.
		In his capacity as Controller of Arts and Features for Granada, he has produced several signature series, the most recent being The Adventure of English - an eight part series for ITV1 which followed on from the success of his Radio 4 series The Routes of English.
	www.itv.com /page.asp?partid=2415 (231 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		From 1995 to 1998 he was art critic and cultural essayist for the New Yorker magazine.
		His art criticism won the National Magazine Award in 1996.
		He is also winner of the Wolfson Prize for History for Patriots and Liberators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977); of the NCP Prize for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989); and the WH Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory (1995).
	www.fathom.com /contributors/4286.html (347 words)

	1999 Stand Magazine Short Fiction Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This competition and the funding of the prizes takes place thanks to the generosity of a number of institutions and private individuals, among whom are:
		Northern House; Friends of Stand Magazine; The Literary Estate of Jon Silkin; anonymous donors in the United States and Britain.
		, half-English and half-French, is the author of seven novels, including Daughters of the House which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize,and won the WH Smith Literary Award, and Impossible Saints (Virago).
	www.people.vcu.edu /~dlatane/story.html (434 words)

	Literary Awards - Contemporary Writers
		Arena Magazine Man of the Year Award (fiction)
		Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction
		Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award
	www.contemporarywriters.com /awards/?&skip=2500 (212 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2002483791
		The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
		David Hughes’; most successful novel, The Pork Butcher, won the WH Smith Literary Award.
		He has written a biography of J.B. Priestley, and reviews books for a number of national newspapers.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random054/2002483791.html (122 words)

	Donna Tartt Wins WH Smith literary award for second novel
		Donna Tartt Wins WH Smith literary award for second novel
		Sir David Attenbrough picked up two awards, adds BBC News Online, for his personal memoirs, `Life on Air`, and for the book accompanying his popular wildlife series `The Life of Mammals.` [...
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	www.whatthepaperssay.co.uk /archive/stories/2003/19-03-2003-17766.cfm (142 words)

	Biography for Melvyn Bragg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He is a prolific and much respected author.
		Won the WH Smith Literary Award 2000 for his acclaimed book, The Soldier's Return.
		A close friend of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0103905/bio (187 words)

	Hari Kunzru: Search for self : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread First Book award, and went on to win the 2002 Betty Trask award and the 2003 Somerset Maugham award.
		2003 ; British Book Awards Author of the Year (shortlist) The Impressionist
		Reproduction in any form is prohibited without prior permission.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Dec/24/181_1436325,001100040001.htm (527 words)

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