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Eleanor Doorly

For her biography of Marie Curie, The Radium Woman she won the 1939 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.

Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation

The Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation is a German nonprofit organization based in Hamburg which awards an annual literary prize for nostalgic literature.

José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature

José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares) is a Mexican literary award that has been presented annually since 1985 by the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.

LGBT in Canada

Beginning in 2007, the Writers' Union of Canada instituted the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, an annual literary award presented to distinguished LGBT-identified writers.

National Sporting Club

Since 2003, the club has hosted a multi-category sports book literary award now known as the British Sports Book Awards.

Ōe Kenzaburō Prize

The Kenzaburō Ōe Prize (大江健三郎賞) is a Japanese literary award sponsored by Kodansha (講談社) and established in 2006 to commemorate both the 100th anniversary of Kodansha's establishment and 50th anniversary of the writing life of Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎).

Ross Macdonald Literary Award

The Ross Macdonald Literary Award is a U.S. book prize given each year by the Santa Barbara Book Council to "a California writer whose work raises the standard of literary excellence."

Sally Gardner

She won the Costa children's book award (2012) and the Carnegie Medal (2013) for her book Maggot Moon.

Skye Bennett

Bennett appeared as Mina in the film adaptation of David Almond's Carnegie Medal- and Whitbread Children's Award-winning book Skellig, which was released in the UK in 2009.


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Andrea Claudio Galluzzo

In 1999 Galluzzo received the CONI National Literary Award for Il Fiorentino, a biography of Marquis Luigi Ridolfi da Verrazzano, a descendant of Giovanni da Verrazzano and Lorenzo il Magnifico, nobleman of Florence.

Australia-Asia Literary Award

Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA) was an initiative of the Government of Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts.

Bihari Puraskar

Bihari Puraskar is a literary award instituted by K. K. Birla Foundation .

Cheikh Tidiane Gaye

His poems won prizes in poetry competition Sulle orme di Ada Negri in Lodi and he received a special mention at the IX International Contest di Trieste Scritture di Frontiera, the Literary Award dedicated to Umberto Saba.

Corrado Alvaro

In 1951 he won the Strega Prize (Premio Strega) – Italy's most prestigious literary award – for his novel Quasi una vita.

Debra Oswald

She is creator and head writer of the Channel 10 drama series Offspring, for which she won the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Award.

Diane Anderson-Minshall

Anderson-Minshall writes the Blind Eye Mystery Series (Blind Curves, Blind Leap and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Blind Faith) through Bold Strokes Books with her husband Jacob Anderson-Minshall.

Elizabeth Hadaway

Elizabeth Hadaway is a poet whose book Fire Baton won the 10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Award for poetry.

Giller

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, an annual Canadian English language literary award named in memory of Doris Giller

Hwang Jini

Novelizations of her life include a 2002 treatment by North Korean writer Hong Sok-jung (which became the first North Korean novel to win a literary award, the Manhae Prize, in the South) and a 2004 bestseller by South Korean writer Jeon Gyeong-rin.

Jean-Jacques Schuhl

Jean-Jacques Schuhl (born October 9, 1941 in Marseille) is a French author, recipient of the 2000 Prix Goncourt literary award for his novel Ingrid Caven.

Joey Goebel

The Anomalies was a Book Sense 76 title selected by the nation's independent booksellers and was nominated for the Kentucky Literary Award.

John Tranter

His Under Berlin, published by the University of Queensland Press, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (the New South Wales State Literary Award for Poetry) in 1989, and At The Florida won the Melbourne Age 'Book of the Year' award for poetry in 1993.

Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen

The Bremen Literature Prize (in German: Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen, literally: Literature Prize of the city of Bremen) is a German literary award.

Noel Alumit

His heralded debut novel, Letters to Montgomery Clift (MacAdam/Cage), received the 2003 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association for literature, the Violet Quill Award from Insight Out Books, the Global Filipino Literary Award from Our Own Voice and the Gold Seal from ForeWord Magazine.

Paolo Giordano

Paolo Giordano (born 1982) is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.

Random House of Canada

One of the most-awarded books to be published by Knopf Canada is Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald, the Canadian author's first novel which was nominated for the Giller Prize in 1996, and went on to win the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, the 1997 Canadian Authors Association Literary Award, and the 1998 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for best fiction book of the year.

Roland Mathias

The Roland Mathias Prize, a literary award, is administered by the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends and is named in his honour.

Runeberg

Runeberg Prize, a Finnish literary award named after the above poet

The Deep: Here Be Dragons

The all-ages graphic novel won the Aurealis Award, Australia's premier speculative fiction literary award, for Best illustrated book/graphic novel in 2012 and was also nominated for Best children’s illustrated work/picture book.

Torrevieja

Since 2001, the city's authorities along with Random House's Spanish subsidiary, Plaza & Janés, award Spain's second most important annual literary award, the Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja, and its poetry correlative, Premio de Poesía Ciudad de Torrevieja.

Ulla-Lena Lundberg

She has been nominated three times for Finland's top literary award the Finlandia Prize, and in 2012 she won the prize with the Swedish-language novel Is.

View from Mount Diablo

View from Mount Diablo is a verse novel by Ralph Thompson (b. 1928), which won the Jamaican National Literary Award in manuscript in 2001, and was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003.

Xiao Huang-Chi

1999 Executive Yuan CCA to host "Second National Literary Award for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped" creative music and lyrics the second group