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The Prizes

Description: Pulitzer, Booker, Nobel, Orange, PEN-Faulkner, Booker International, Whitbread, Hugo, Edgar, Nebula, etc.

A place to discuss the merits and failures of the choices made for literary prizes and awards, as well as of the very idea of prizes.

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Created: Aug 4, 2006 by sycoraxpine; Language: English

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Samuel Johnson Prize 3Nickelini, Today 10:29pmignore
The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 5fleela, Today 8:13amignore
The Orange 78bookmark123, Tuesday 2:37amignore
International Short Story Award 2senjmito, May 7ignore
Irish Book Awards 7avaland, April 30ignore
BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize 1fleela, April 18ignore
The Pulitzer 73polutropos, April 18ignore
The Best of the Booker 21kiwidoc, April 17ignore
Pulitzer Group 25ggchickapee, April 12ignore
Kiriyama Prize 22Cariola, April 12ignore
IMPAC/Dublin Prize 56avaland, April 5ignore
The PEN/Faulkner Award 14kiwidoc, April 5ignore
Commonwealth Writers Prize 24avaland, March 16ignore
National Book Critics Circle Award 31blissfulwitch, March 7ignore
The Whitbread/Costa 18kiwidoc, February 25ignore
The Booker 115avaland, February 25ignore
The National Book Award 31Schmerguls, February 25ignore
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2Cariola, February 15ignore
Dormant: Mystery, Crime & Thriller Awards 6avaland, February 8ignore
Dormant: The Governor General's Literary Awards--Fiction 2avaland, February 7ignore
Dormant: My first Orange 11citizenkelly, January 22ignore
Dormant: Prime Minister's Literary Prize (Australia) 5dreamlikecheese, January 22ignore
Dormant: Finalist, Prix Femina 2005 6avaland, January 19ignore
Dormant: The Philip K. Dick Award 17GibsonGirl, January 13ignore
Dormant: The Nebula 8ringman, January 11ignore
Dormant: Kavalier & Clay 1mydomino1978, November 2007ignore
Dormant: The Giller Prize 31kathrynnd, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Let's go Wiki 7conceptDawg, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Neustadt International Prize for Literature 6kiwidoc, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Pulitzer 5amandameale, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The PEN/Nabokov Award 9almigwin, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The PEN/Malamud Award 6kiwidoc, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The Hugo 62natantus, September 2007ignore
Dormant: The Daggers 7amandameale, September 2007ignore
Dormant: The idea of the prize/award 25piefuchs, August 2007ignore
Dormant: Award and Gender 41ggchickapee, August 2007ignore
Dormant: The Booker International Prize for Fiction 18amandameale, June 2007ignore
Dormant: Miscellaneous Literary Prizes and Awards 6avaland, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Commonwealth Short Story Competition 1amandameale, February 2007ignore
Dormant: Arthur C. Clarke Award and Other Misc. SF&F Awards 8avaland, January 2007ignore
Dormant: The Single Winner 13amandameale, January 2007ignore
Dormant: Predictions for 2007 10avaland, January 2007ignore
Dormant: The O. Henry and the Pushcart 6bookishbunny, November 2006ignore
Dormant: The James Tait Black Memorial Prize 9avaland, November 2006ignore
Dormant: American wins Prix Goncourt 3lriley, November 2006ignore
Dormant: ALA Notable Books 1kjphenix, October 2006ignore
The Miles Franklin Award 41dreamlikecheese, April 30 stop ignoring
Dormant: The Nobel 110dchaikin, October 2007 stop ignoring
 

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