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Awards
Date: Nov 18, 2009 Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, is today (Wednesday 18th November) announced as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Andrew Motion is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. More Source: www.thebookseller.com Date: Nov 18, 2009 Motion, who is professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, said it was "an honour" to be asked to act as chair, adding: "It's an exciting challenge too: a lot of difficult decisions lie ahead. More Source: www.independent.co.uk Date: Nov 16, 2009 Three major book prizes awarded November 16 to 20 recognize writing from the Asian, American, and Spanish-language literary fronts. More Source: www.wo.ala.org Date: Nov 12, 2009 Contact: Jenni TerryPress OfficerALA Washington Office202-628-8410For Immediate ReleaseNovember 12, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) Washington Office is calling for nominations for two awards to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted More Source: www.thejohnfox.com Date: Nov 12, 2009 The Wall Street Journal takes a lukewarm tone regarding Herta Muller (via The Literary Saloon): "I am happy to have made Ms. Müller's acquaintance without being eager to revisit her." The final sentence of the WSJ article, written by Richard Woodward, indicates that Muller's books are likely to More Source: www.prweb.com Date: Nov 12, 2009 PR: PROSALES magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 PROSALES Excellence Awards - the most prestigious awards program in the construction supply industry. Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 11, 2009 -- PROSALES magazine is pleased to announce the winners More Date: Nov 11, 2009 From Jane Austen to Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, no artist is safe in this collection of satirical sketches by the late longtime poetry editor of The New Yorker, Howard Moss. More Date: Nov 11, 2009 Booklist Online, featuring over 120,000 book reviews, as well as audiobook, video, and database reviews, is the counterpart to Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association. More Source: www.earlham.edu Date: Nov 10, 2009 “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry gave to Congress in an open letter delivered yesterday. More Source: globalvoicesonline.org Date: Nov 10, 2009 The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has inspired Hungarian bloggers, too: they are discussing an interview with Imre Kertész, the Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author living in Berlin, which appeared in the German newspaper Die Welt. More Source: www.complete-review.com Date: Nov 10, 2009 Andrew Motion, plagiarist (?) It's the same old story: Andrew Motion published a 'found poem', An Equal Voice, in The Guardian this weekend, and used more words that he ... found elsewhere than the original author of those words cared for. More Source: britishfiction.suite101.com Date: Nov 7, 2009 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga acquaints readers with the rich India as well as the poor India and focuses on the dichotomy between the two. More Source: www.bookdwarf.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 I might not be stating anything new here, but Thomas Keller writes one fine cookbook. I’ve never eaten at any of his restaurants. So, instead, I faithfully wait for each of his books to come to me. More Source: www.prnewswire.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 " ("The City of Possible Unity, A Collection of Miami Poetry"), a book featuring more than 100 Spanish-language poems by 32 Hispanic writers. The editor and publisher, Dr. More Source: www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au Date: Nov 4, 2009 BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER Online, incorporating the Weekly Book Newsletter, is the online information portal for book industry professionals in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Jobs, news, events and industry announcements - this is the one place to find it all. More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: Nov 3, 2009 From the archive, 3 November 1958: He has shown the heroes of the revolutionary days as human beings, less than immaculate. In a harsher time Pasternak might have found himself banished to Siberia More Source: www.designinglibraries.org.uk Date: Nov 2, 2009 A database of descriptions and images of recent library building projects. A resource for sharing expertise and experience on library planning and design. More Source: www.kansan.com Date: Oct 31, 2009 The American public loses interest in important Nobel Prize winners in science. More Source: www.npr.org Date: Oct 28, 2009 The Humbling blooms brightly in the extraordinary garden of Philip Roth's later work. Swift but piercing, uncluttered yet nuanced, the novel tells the tale of an actor who loses his talent and therefore his sense of self. More Source: www.boston.com Date: Oct 27, 2009 A fledging museum devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its mission is just what President Barack Obama is looking for when he decides what to do with the $1.4 million cash award that comes with his Nobel Peace Prize. More Previous | Next
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