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1. Authors weigh in on Giller Prize's future; Protests over the link between Scotiabank and an Israeli arms manufacturer have spurred debate over how the award can evolve

Author

O'Kane, Josh and Wheeler, Brad

Subjects
Elbit Systems Ltd. -- Securities, Bank of Nova Scotia (Toronto, Ontario) -- Investments, Israel-Hamas War, 2023-, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Banking industry -- Investments, Authors -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Military electronics industry -- Securities, Company securities, Company investment, Banking industry, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: JOSH O'KANE, BRAD WHEELER The Scotiabank Giller Prize has been reckoning with pushback since last November, when demonstrators were arrested for disrupting its annual award gala to draw attention [...]

Published
2024

2. Fear of China Taints Literary Prize, Leaked Emails Show

Author

Alter, Alexandra

Subjects
Hugo Awards, Electronic mail systems -- Political aspects, Authors, Chinese -- Works -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Achievements and awards, Science fiction -- Political aspects, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, E-mail, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

When some books, including best sellers, were conspicuously absent from the science fiction Hugo Awards last year, writers and fans became suspicious. The Hugo Awards, a major literary prize for [...]

Published
2024

3. Authors Protest PEN Literary Awards

Subjects
Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Authors -- Political activity, Advertising, marketing and public relations, Business, Publishing industry, PEN America -- Political aspects
Abstract

Amid criticism for its response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, PEN America is facing growing protests ahead of its upcoming Literary Awards, with a number of nominated authors withdrawing [...]

Published
2024

4. Where fiction and politics meet: Increasingly, Canadian writers are finding creative fire in issues, identity and the immigrant experience

Author

Bethune, Brian

Subjects
Canadian literature -- Political aspects, Canadian writers -- Achievements and awards -- Political activity -- Political aspects, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

BY BRIAN BETHUNE. 'This year, I had the luck.' No literary award winner has more succinctly summed up the opaque process of becoming the writer who emerges with cheque in [...]

Published
2018

5. IAIA graduate up for prestigious National Book Award for poetry

Author

Boyle, Molly

Subjects
Soldiers -- Achievements and awards -- Political activity -- Political aspects, Poetry -- Political aspects, Poets -- Achievements and awards -- Political activity -- Political aspects, Native Americans -- Achievements and awards -- Political activity -- Political aspects, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Molly Boyle, The New Mexican 'I am a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the [...]

Published
2017

6. Books & Critics - Books: A Terrifying Honesty - V. S. Naipaul is certainly no liberal-and herein lies his importance

Author

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey

Subjects
Nobel Prizes -- Political aspects, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Books -- Criticism and interpretation -- Political aspects, Authors -- Criticism and interpretation -- Political aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

..... A group of eminent American writers appointed by the Librarian of Congress-including W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Lowell-awarded the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound, for [...]

Published
2002

7. Ukip study scoops £10,000 prize for political book of the year; Revolt on the Right beats Alan Johnson memoir and The Snowden Files, while life of Roy Jenkins wins biography prize at 2015 Paddy Power awards

Subjects
Political science literature -- Political aspects, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Politics in literature -- Political aspects, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Alison Flood A study of the rise of Ukip was named the political book of the year at a ceremony on Wednesday. Revolt on the Right, by the academics [...]

Published
2015

8. Germans balk at award to outspoken Austrian

Subjects
Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Authors, Austrian -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Political aspects -- Achievements and awards, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Berlin -- German politicians said yesterday they would not allow an important literature prize to go to Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his Serbian nationalist sympathies. The coalition heading [...]

Published
2006

9. Indonesian Publisher Is Honored for Enduring Under Ban

Author

Perlez, Jane

Subjects
PEN International -- Achievements and awards -- Political aspects, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Indonesians -- Achievements and awards, Publishers (Persons) -- Achievements and awards
Abstract

Joesoef Isak, who is being honored this year by the PEN literary organization for courageous publishing, can recall the police interrogation about his first publishing sensation in 1980, the first […]

Published
2004

11. 4 Decades After Pound, Poetry Prize Is Restored

Author

Molotsky, Irvin

Subjects
Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Poets -- Achievements and awards -- Political aspects
Abstract

In 1948, when the Library of Congress awarded a prize in poetry to Ezra Pound, a supporter of the Fascists in Italy, the action so angered the nation that Congress […]

Published
1990

14. Fiction is safer than truth

Subjects
Booker Prize -- 1987 AD, Literary prizes -- Political aspects, Authors, English -- Achievements and awards, Novelists -- Achievements and awards
Published
1987

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