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A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare around the world. [10] Literary critics have noted that it is a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or to be nominated for the "longlist".
The Carnegie Medal for Writing, established in 1936 as the Carnegie Medal, is an annual British literary award for English-language books for children or young adults.It is conferred upon the author by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), who in 2016 called it "the UK's oldest and most prestigious book award for children's writing".
Alan Ball Local History Awards; Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction; Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing; British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding; CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction; Duff Cooper Prize; Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary ...
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010. [1] At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the UK. [2] The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who is generally considered the originator of historical fiction with the novel Waverley in 1814.
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony.Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach ...
The Saguaro cactus's scientific name, Carnegiea gigantea, is named after him. The Carnegie Medal for the best children's literature published in the UK was established in his name. The Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, at Leeds Beckett University, UK, is named after him. The concert halls in Dunfermline and New York are named after him.
The David Cohen Prize for Literature (est. 1993) is a biennial British literary award given to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language. [1] The prize is funded by the John S. Cohen Foundation and administered by Arts Council England. [2]
Prior to the establishment of the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's premier literary award for non-fiction was the NCR Book Award, which had been established in 1987. [3] In 1997, the NCR Award experienced a scandal when it was revealed the judges, many of them chosen for their popularity rather than literary qualities, had used "ghost readers" and were not expected to read the books they voted ...