Topic: Literary Awards
AP News | 2009-11-30 23:01:00
<div id="subtitle">UK: American author wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize with bestselling epic 'The Kindly Ones'</div><div><p>A cringe-inducing passage which compares a sexual encounter to battle with an one-eyed mythological monster was awarded Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize on Monday.</p><p ...
AP News | 2009-11-19 04:03:11
National Book Award winners for 2009 T.J. Stiles, left, Phillip Hoose, second from left, Keith Waldrop, second from right, and Colum McCann pose for a photograph with their books at the National Book Awards Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009 in ...
Reuters US Online Report Domestic News | 2009-11-19 03:13:17
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A novel about life in New York City in the 1970s and a biography of U.S. tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the winners at the United States 60th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday.</p><p>Colum McCann won the fiction award with "Let the Great ...
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2009-11-18 10:23:41
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the world's top literary awards, organizers said on Wednesday.</p><p>The 57-year-old and his panel will have to read over 100 novels before they decide on the winner of ...
