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• Another Year of Bad Sex

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 472
  Maybe Neil Gaiman got it succinctly right on Twitter a few hours ago : J ust read the Guardian Bad Sex Award contenders ... I may never write a sex scene ever again. O Roth. O Banville. Argh. Yes, its that time of year again when literary lust because fodder for fun. The Guardian has extracts from all the ...
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• Colum McCann Takes NBA Fiction Prize

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 472
  The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York ...
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• Winners of 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards Announced: Children’s Lit, YA Rules!

  
  Julie Burtinshaw — Authority: 119
  Montreal, November 17, 2009 – The names of winners of the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced today by the Canada Council for the Arts. The seven English and seven French awards are given to authors, illustrators and translators and in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, non‑fiction, ...
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• _Bishop’s Man_ by Linden MacIntyre wins Scotiabank Giller Prize. 11.12.2009. 141.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 120
  Linden MacIntyre, an investigative journalist who wrote a novel about sexual abuse by Catholic priests, has won one of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards. MacIntyre won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book “The Bishop’s Man” on Tuesday night. The novel tells the story of a Roman Catholic ...
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• The Hyphenites Social Calendar: Film Fests Galore, Page Turner

  
  Hyphen Blog — Authority: 502
  Tuesday November 10th -- Philadelphia Kevin So and Wayne Hsu Perform Wayne Hsu Nashville-based singer-songwriter Kevin So and Philadelphias own Wayne Hsu will perform together for a one-night-only benefit show. Proceeds will support the community-based arts center Asian Arts Initiative , which strives ...
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• She writes and shes in New York

  
  Uiscebots Blog — Authority: 116
  If you look through my Blogroll youll see a site called WhereImBloggingFrom. Its one of my favourite writing blogs right now and its the online home of the young Irish writer Eimear Ryan. I first met her at the Hennessey XO literary Awards earlier this year (mad to think that was only this year). She won her ...
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• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Nominated by Tampere City Library,Finland and 8 Others for IMPAC Award. No. 11.6.2009. 139.

  
  Librarian — Authority: 120
  The 100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is made from nominations by libraries from around the world. Judges of the 2010 award (L-R) Anne Fine, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Abdourahman Waberi, Zoë Wicomb and Eve Patten outside the Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin. Q: Who can ...
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• Canadian, American writers win French literary prizes (AFP)

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  PARIS (AFP) – Haitian-born Canadian writer Dany Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers on Wednesday were awarded Frances Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing. Laferriere won the Medicis for "Lenigme du retour" (The Enigma of Return), a fictionalised account of the ...
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• Call for Entries: The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2010

  
  Book Case — Authority: 116
  It’s that time of the year again. Entries are now open for next year’s  Sunday Times Literary Awards. Titles should have been published between December 1 2009 and December 1 2010.The Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction: “Any full-length non-fiction work relating to Southern Africa and published between December 1 ...
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• Your Application Was Given Thoughtful and Thorough Attention . . .

  
  Kanlaon — Authority: 137
  The language is from the National Endowment for the Arts rejection, which self got in the mail today. First time she’s applied in almost a decade, too. Apparently, her writing has not improved measurably in quality in all that time! Plus, it was such a bear getting that application together, she had to download ...
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• Its Cybils Time in NYC. Join us!

  
  Chicken Spaghetti — Authority: 415
  The New York Public Librarys Childrens Literary Café presents a panel discussion on the Cybils: the Childrens and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards. Who: Childrens book bloggers Pam Coughlan ( MotherReader ), Anne Boles Levy (one of the Cybils founders), Elizabeth Burns ( A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy ...
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• Literary Lioness [Woman Of Letters]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
  Writer Marie NDiaye was awarded Frances top literary award, the Goncourt Prize , for her novel Trois Puissantes Femmes (" Three Strong Women "). Femmes tells the story of three women who face numerous difficulties and humiliations, but remain fundamentally "unbreakable." [ YahooNews ]
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• The 2009 Whiting Writers Award Winners Get Money And Advice

  
  TSP — Authority: 107
  If youre a writer and you have a book or play or two under your belt, you might want to answer the phone if it rings some time toward the end of September. Thats when the Whiting Writers Awards calls to notify its ten winners, each of whom gets a generous $50,000 check. Unlike The Story Prize, Whiting Award ...
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• Turner receives PM’s Literary Award

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 563
  Central Otago poet Brian Turner  is one of three recipients of the 2009 Prme Minister’s Literary Achievement Awards. The other two awards went to  C. K. Stead for fiction writing and Dr Ranginui Walker for nonfiction. Although he is probably best known for his poetry, and was the 2003 Te Mata Estate poet ...
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• WLA 2009: Lynda Barry "Writing the Unthinkable"

  
  The WLA Blog — Authority: 117
  [How exciting to even be in the same room as Lynda Barry! Ive got celebrity awe...] Writing the Unthinkable Lynda Barry, multi-talented artist Recent book "What It Is" won WLA award Born in Wisconsin, again living in Wisconsin nervous sweat will Roschach you into a past life first breakup ...
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• Reading Kazuo Ishiguro, Among Other Things

  
  Kanlaon — Authority: 137
  Just another kink in self’s life — on top of the hunt for Jason Vitamin-C serum for Dearest Mum; self’s kaput car; the proliferation of AHN1 cases in the U.S.; and hubby’s mercurial moods, there were also two large black flies dive-bombing over the food last night. And self just could not get close to either ...
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• The Curious Intimacy of Strangers

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 472
  The beauty of reading a book by yourself is how the authors imagination interacts with your own, in a way it doesnt if youre watching a movie. Theres that curious intimacy of strangers. Thats why I think this genre will survive. Sir Salman Rushdie in an interview with Donna Seaman . The author received the Chicago ...
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