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Meanings of book prize in English

Russian
литературная премия
Portuguese
prémio literário
Spanish
premio de literatura
Catalan
premi literari

Award for authors and literary associations.

литературная премия
Synonyms
Examples for "literary award"
Examples for "literary award"
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Australia's notable literary award includes three debut novelists, a poet and a wrapper.
The Irish Times
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The prize, announced last night in New York, is America's most prestigious literary award.
The Irish Times
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O'Siadhail celebrated a recent literary award by buying a painting.
The Irish Times
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The John Llewellyn Rhys prize is Britain's second-oldest literary award.
The Guardian
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Hitting Budapest won the leading African literary award, Caine Prize for African Writing, in 2011.
The South African
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Dame Fiona Kidman has taken out the country's most prestigious literary prize.
Radio NZ
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Yet no other literary prize so obsesses the Swedes.... View Article
The new yorker
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It won Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin, in 2012.
The Guardian
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And is being a good read a sufficient qualification for winning a literary prize?
The Guardian
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Along with the Pulitzer, this award is regarded as America's most eminent literary prize.
The Irish Times
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Surely there is an opportunity here for a bad business book award?
The Irish Times
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The longlist for the Guardian first book award 2015 spans the world.
The Guardian
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Diana Wichtel has won this year's Ockham book award for non-fiction.
Radio NZ
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The Guardian first book award is announced this evening.
The Guardian
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We are taking part in book award shadowing schemes.
The Guardian
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Rowling is in Denmark to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award 2010.
Reuters
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First time novelist Edward P Jones has won the 10th Impac Dublin Literature Award.
The Irish Times
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She is also guest-editing 4th Floor literary journal, and is a finalist in the Pikihuia Māori literature awards.
Radio NZ
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His book was a finalist for the New Voices in Literature award and a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner competition.
Reuters
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The highlight of the festival, now in its seventh year, is a reading by Impac Dublin Literature Award winner Edward P Jones.
The Irish Times
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Awarding him the literature prize has also brought criticism from previous winners.
The Guardian
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In 1964 French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refused the literature prize outright.
The Guardian
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Elfriede Jelinek's literature prize in 2004 led one academy member to resign in dismay.
The Guardian
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Prosecutors questioned the Nobel literature prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich on Wednesday.
Radio NZ
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Once again and unlikely as ever, Bob Dylan is among the bookies' favourites for the literature prize.
The Guardian
Usage of book prize in English
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An unusual book prize has come the way of an Irish-published book.
The Irish Times
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The International DUBLIN Literary Award is the international book prize from Dublin, a Unesco City of Literature.
The Irish Times
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He has judged the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Biography Award and the Orwell book prize
The Guardian
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Here's a treat for the book lovers in the crowd: the Wellcome Trust just announced the shortlist for their book prize.
The Guardian
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Winners will receive a trophy courtesy of The Irish Times and a book prize courtesy of International Education Services, Leixlip, Co Kildare.
The Irish Times
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It is a pity that the William Hill sports book prize was invented too late for his most memorable book, Harold Gimblett.
The Guardian
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His novel When Memory Dies (1997) won both the Commonwealth Writers' first book prize (for Eurasia) and the Sagittarius prize.
The Guardian
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The Costa Book Awards is the only major British book prize that is open solely to authors resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Reuters
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Her first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award, an NAACP Image award, and a Los Angeles Times book prize.
The Guardian
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The award is "the first major English-language book prize open to writers from all over the world", according to sponsor the Folio Society.
Reuters
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The Orwell book prize is intended to discover the work which comes closest to George Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art".
The Guardian
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In later years, he published several titles, including the memoir Journal Impoli 2011-1928, for which he received the "politically incorrect book prize".
The Guardian
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Originally established in 1971 by Whitbread, coffee shop chain Costa took over the sponsorship of one of the UK's most prestigious book prize in 2006.
The Irish Times
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The shortlist for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize has been announced today.
The Irish Times
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This book won the UK's 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize.
Radio NZ
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Seventeen Tomatoes, his debut story collection, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize.
Radio NZ