Nobel Literature Prize to Be Announced October 11
The date for the literature prize is revealed only a few days in advance, while the dates for the other prizes are known several months ahead of time.www.turkishweekly.net
Tony Blair to help fund literary prize
Organisers said the Women's Prize for Fiction, which was sponsored by communication company Orange up until last year, will be privately funded while "headline sponsorship negotiations for 2014 and beyond are concluded".www.independent.co.uk
Nobel Literature Prize to be announced Oct. 11
The date for the literature prize is revealed only a few days in advance, while the dates for the other prizes are known several months ahead of time.www.koreaherald.com
WordFest features 75 authors in search of a literary trend
Or, this year, there's the writer who's their very own literary theme: Martin Amis, who, ironically, has scarcely won any literary prizes at all, even though he's one of the preeminent English language novelists of the past 30 years. While the themes ...www.calgaryherald.com
Medicine prize kicks off Nobel prizes
THE 2012 Nobel Prize season opens with the pick for the medicine award, marking the start of a week of announcements and speculation over who will collect the literature and peace prizes. The medicine prize will be announced in Stockholm at 11:30am ...www.theaustralian.com.au
Medicine prize kicks off week of Nobel picks
STOCKHOLM (Oct 08, 2012): The 2012 Nobel Prize season opens Monday with the pick for the medicine award, marking the start of a week of announcements and speculation over who will collect the literature and peace prizes. The medicine prize will be ...www.thesundaily.my
Suspense mounts ahead of Nobel Prize announcements
Like every year, most of the speculation in the run-up to the announcements focuses on who will take home the prestigious peace and literature prizes. Betting sites have become a popular feature of the guessing game in recent years, with gamers ...english.vietnamnet.vn
Awards don't intimidate Rawi Hage
It won the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world. De Niro's Game and its follow-up, Cockroach, were both nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, among others.thechronicleherald.ca
German Book Prize shows which books matter
If Suhrkamp wins, it will match the Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt in terms of overall prizes; Fischer has taken two of the seven German Book awards. Suhrkamp does not publish "single books," it claims, "but rather the total literary or academic ...www.dw.de
Vincent Lam, Linda Spalding among authors shortlisted for Governor General's ...
Vincent Lam, a Toronto emergency-room doctor, has been nominated for the Governor General's literary prize for his book The Headmaster's Wager, which tells the story of Percival Chen - the Chinese headmaster of an English school in Saigon at the time ...www.edmontonjournal.com
Vincent Lam among authors shortlisted for Governor General's Literary Awards
OTTAWA -- Former Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam has been shortlisted for the $25,000 Governor General's Literary Awards for his sweeping Vietnam saga "The Headmaster's Wager." Others who made the cut include Tamas Dobozy of Kitchener, ...www.ctvnews.ca
Japan author, "spooky" science up for cut-price Nobels
Odds at British bookmaker Ladbrokes and Sweden's Unibet put Japanese author Haruki Murakami and Chinese writer Mo Yan in the top two places for the literature prize. An American advocate of non-violent struggle and a Coptic Christian who runs a ...www.reuters.com
William Trevor's odds for Nobel literature prize tumble
Irish literary legend William Trevor has become the hottest tip to win this year's Nobel prize for literature, with odds on the 84-year-old author taking the award tumbling dramatically over the last week. Trevor, a novelist and short story writer who ...www.guardian.co.uk
Two local authors shortlisted for Governor General's Literary Awards
OTTAWA - Two Waterloo Region authors are vying for $25,000 Governor General's Literary Awards. Carrie Snyder, of Waterloo, and Tamas Dobozy, of Kitchener, are finalists in the fiction category of Canada's oldest literary awards. Moreover, both have ...www.therecord.com
Man Booker 2012 shortlist announced (before we were up)
The six shortlisted authors are in competition for one of the world's most lucrative and widely celebrated prizes for literary fiction. The Man Booker, worth about $80,000, will be awarded at a gala ceremony in London on Oct. 16. The authors include ...www.latimes.com
Andrew Krivak's War Novel 'The Sojourn' Wins Literary Prize
This week the Dayton Literary Prizes were announced. Inspired by the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian War, the $10,000 awards are given to works that "promote peace and global understanding.hereandnow.wbur.org
Andrew Krivak and Adam Hochschild win Dayton Literary Peace Prizes
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is still young, but it is establishing a strong pedigree. The Monday announcements that Andrew Krivak and Adam Hochschild have won the $10,000 prizes this year burnishes the record. Krivak wrote "The Sojourn," a ...www.cleveland.com
Suspense mounts ahead of Nobel Prize
Names being whispered in literary circles include Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro - although the Swedish Academy has never given the prize to an author of short works - as well as US author Don DeLillo and Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah.www.sbs.com.au
Isabel Allende receives Denmark's top literary award
AFP - Chilean novelist Isabel Allende received Denmark's top literary award on Sunday, winning the equivalent of 86,000 dollars for her "magical" and spellbinding work, organisers said.www.france24.com
Smaller prize is all that is certain this Nobel season
... managing the assets of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrials who created the prizes that were first awarded in 1901, has adjusted the prize money on previous occasions. Prizes are awarded in literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace and ...www.gulf-times.com
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