Meanings of book award in English

An unusual book prize has come the way of an Irish-published book.

The International DUBLIN Literary Award is the international book prize from Dublin, a Unesco City of Literature.

He has judged the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Biography Award and the Orwell book prize

Here's a treat for the book lovers in the crowd: the Wellcome Trust just announced the shortlist for their book prize.

Winners will receive a trophy courtesy of The Irish Times and a book prize courtesy of International Education Services, Leixlip, Co Kildare.

Dame Fiona Kidman has taken out the country's most prestigious literary prize.

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It won Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin, in 2012.

And is being a good read a sufficient qualification for winning a literary prize?

Along with the Pulitzer, this award is regarded as America's most eminent literary prize.

Rowling is in Denmark to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award 2010.

First time novelist Edward P Jones has won the 10th Impac Dublin Literature Award.

She is also guest-editing 4th Floor literary journal, and is a finalist in the Pikihuia Māori literature awards.

His book was a finalist for the New Voices in Literature award and a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner competition.

The highlight of the festival, now in its seventh year, is a reading by Impac Dublin Literature Award winner Edward P Jones.

Awarding him the literature prize has also brought criticism from previous winners.

In 1964 French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refused the literature prize outright.

Elfriede Jelinek's literature prize in 2004 led one academy member to resign in dismay.

Prosecutors questioned the Nobel literature prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich on Wednesday.

Once again and unlikely as ever, Bob Dylan is among the bookies' favourites for the literature prize.