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M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2021 M2 COMMUNICATIONS UK children's reading charity, BookTrust, announced on Tuesday that it has presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to John Agard, a playwright, poet and children's writer, [...]

The T S Eliot Foundation declared Hannah Sullivan as the winner of the 2018 T S Eliot Prize for her collection Three Poems, at an award ceremony held at the [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2016 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The USD100,000 Wallace Stevens award has been won by American poet Sharon Olds for her poetry collection about her divorce, Stag's Leap, The Guardian news [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2015 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Poet Sarah Howe has been named as the winner of the GBP5,000 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Dunlop young writer of the year award, the Guardian [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The winner of the 2009 Costa Book of the Year prize is Christopher Reid for A Scattering, a collection of poems written as a tribute [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The 2009 BBC National Short Story Award has been won by Kate Clanchy, a teacher, journalist, freelance writer and poet, for her short story The [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Forward prize for Best Collection has been won by Mick Imlah for his second book of poems, titled The Lost Leader. Imlah received [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The GBP10,000 2006 TS Eliot Prize has been awarded to Irish poet Seamus Heaney for his collection entitled District and Circle. The award was [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The National Book Foundation in the US has announced the finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards. The award applies to books that were [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The GBP10,000 Wales Book of the Year award has been presented to poet and author Robert Minhinnick for his book To Babel and Back. [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The winner of this year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award has been named as Andrea Levy for her novel 'Small Island'. Levy, who [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US National Book Awards have been presented to the winning authors at a ceremony in New York, with the fiction prize going to [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Whitbread, Forward and TS Eliot award nominated poet Simon Armitage has been selected as a judge of the prestigious Griffin poetry prize. Armitage has [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The longlist for the Guardian First Book award has been revealed. Four books of fiction, five non-fiction and one volume of poetry make up [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD British poet Harold Pinter has been awarded the Wilfred Owen award for poetry thanks to his work on the war in Iraq. Pinter has [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Kay Ryan has won the USD100,000 Ruth Lilly Prize awarded for longtime achievement in American poetry. Ryan said winning the prize was 'kind of [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlist for Ontario, USA's 17th Annual Trillium Book Awards has been announced. Five French and six English language books were selected along with [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Poet Tony Harrison has been awarded the UK's richest literary prize, the GBP60,000 Northern Rock Foundation Writer's award. The award is given to a [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Nominations from the New Zealand public are being accepted for the 2004 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement. The three prizes, each worth NZD60,000, [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD New Zealand's biggest literary award for up and coming writers, the Prize in Modern Letters, has been won by poet and doctor, Glenn Colquhoun. [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Award winning New Zealand poet, Keith Olsen, has picked up another award nomination, but this time in the non-fiction category. The poet and illustrator [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The inaugural Individual World Poetry Slam Championship has been won by performance poet, Buddy Wakefield. Wakefield, 29, from Seattle, beat off competition from 36 [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Whitbread poetry winner Don Paterson has scooped another lucrative poetry prize, for his collection 'Landing Light'. The Scottish poet collected the GBP5,000 TS Eliot [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas has won the Spanish-speaking world's biggest literature prize. The USD110,000 Cervantes Prize, named after the author of 'Don Quixote', was [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Previous TS Eliot poetry award winner Don Paterson has been nominated again for the award he won in 1997, for his latest collection of [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Nordic Council literature prize for 2003 is to be awarded to Eva Strom, a Swedish poet. The prize, which is DKK350,000 (about EUR47,000), [...]

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Stanley Kunitz, a former poet laureate of the United States, has received an award for his book, 'Collected Poems', which was published in 2000 [...]