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Meanings of literature prize in English

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

Award for authors and literary associations.

        литературная премия
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        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
        3
        O'Siadhail celebrated a recent literary award by buying a painting.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The John Llewellyn Rhys prize is Britain's second-oldest literary award.
        The Guardian
        5
        Hitting Budapest won the leading African literary award, Caine Prize for African Writing, in 2011.
        The South African
        1
        An unusual book prize has come the way of an Irish-published book.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The International DUBLIN Literary Award is the international book prize from Dublin, a Unesco City of Literature.
        The Irish Times
        3
        He has judged the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Biography Award and the Orwell book prize
        The Guardian
        4
        Here's a treat for the book lovers in the crowd: the Wellcome Trust just announced the shortlist for their book prize.
        The Guardian
        5
        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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        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
        4
        And is being a good read a sufficient qualification for winning a literary prize?
        The Guardian
        5
        Along with the Pulitzer, this award is regarded as America's most eminent literary prize.
        The Irish Times
        1
        Surely there is an opportunity here for a bad business book award?
        The Irish Times
        2
        The longlist for the Guardian first book award 2015 spans the world.
        The Guardian
        3
        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
        1
        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
        3
        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
        Usage of literature prize in English
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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
        3
        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
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        That said, only a songwriter of exceptional influence should be allowed to bully his way into a literature prize.
        The Irish Times
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        The last time the literature prize was not awarded was in 1943, at the height of World War Two.
        Reuters
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        The writer Ashleigh Young has won a prestigious US literature prize for non-fiction writing, worth over 230 thousand US dollars.
        Radio NZ
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        On The Town: It's just one celebration after another for Harold Pinter, who won the Nobel literature prize on Thursday.
        The Irish Times
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        Earlier, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the Swedish Academy of rewarding human rights violations by awarding the literature prize to Handke.
        Reuters
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        The literature prize was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück on Thursday for her "candid and uncompromising" work.
        The Guardian
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        Yesterday, London-born playwright Harold Pinter was awarded the 2005 Nobel literature prize, worth €1.07 million.
        The Irish Times
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        Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zadie Smith in Berlin, 2016, where she was awarded the 2016 Welt literature prize.
        The Guardian
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        Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel literature prize today, for his multitude of works that deal with the symbols of clashing cultures.
        The Irish Times
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        STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two external members of the Nobel literature prize committee quit on Monday after criticizing the scandal-hit Swedish Academy.
        Reuters
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        The most notable aspect of Alice Munro's literature prize win this week, for instance, was that she was fast asleep when she won it.
        The Guardian