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The reader's understanding of folklore should be enhanced by the book, as should the book be enhanced by the presence of folklore. The book should reflect the high artistic standards of the best of children's literature and have strong appeal to the child reader. Folklore sources must be fully acknowledged and annotations referenced within the ...
At least three books have won two National Book Awards. Dates are award years. John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian; 1974 Biography; 1974 History. Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard; 1979 Contemporary Thought; 1980 General Nonfiction, Paperback. Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Israeli historian Guy Beiner is the only person to date to have won the Wayland D. Hand Prize twice: in 2008 for his book Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of Wisconsin Press) and in 2020 for his book Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in ...
This is a list of the works that have won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy literature. The Hugo Awards are voted on by science-fiction fans at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon); the Nebula Awards—given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)—began in 1966, making that the first year joint ...
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association [ 2 ]
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for " The Best of the Booker ".
The Grey King won the inaugural Tir na n-Og Award from the Welsh Books Council as the year's best English-language children's book with an "authentic Welsh background". [4] It is set in Wales and incorporates Welsh folklore as well as Arthurian material, especially that of the Brenin Llwyd (English: Grey King). [5]