Three Percent, the international literature division at University of Rochester in New York, has announced its top twenty-five picks for the 2011 Best Translated Book Award in fiction, representing nineteen countries and twelve languages.
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Archive January 2011
Three Percent's Best Translated Fiction Books of 2010
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.28.11
NBCC's Critics' Picks of 2010
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.26.11
While the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards shortlists, announced last weekend, have echoes of last fall's National Book Awards, the nominees in fiction were a completely fresh batch.
Eighty-One-Year-Old Poet Wins T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.24.11
Today the widow of T. S. Eliot awarded the annual prize given to honor a poetry book published in the previous year.
National Poetry Series Author Wins Second Book Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.21.11
Small literary press New Issues Poetry and Prose, operating out of the Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, has announced the winner of its twelfth annual Green Rose Prize.
Jerusalem Prize Honors Literature of the Individual
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.19.11
The International Jerusalem Book Fair has announced the twenty-fifth winner of the ten-thousand-dollar Jerusalem Prize, given biennially since 1963.
Poetry Contest Turns Verse to Verses
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.14.11
Memorious, the six-year-old online literary journal, is open for poetry entries to its annual art song contest.
New Frost Prize for Formal Poets
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.12.11
The keepers of Robert Frost's family farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where the poet lived from 1900 to 1911, have opened their inaugural formal poetry contest.
Stegner, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Fellows Up for Story Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.10.11
The Story Prize announced today the shortlist for its seventh annual award, an honor worth twenty thousand dollars.
New Grant for New York City's Early-Career Fiction Writers
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.06.11
The Center for Fiction is currently accepting applications for a new grant and residency program designed for emerging fiction writers who reside in the five boroughs of New York City.
Midwestern Indies Relaunch Innovative Novel Contest
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 1.04.11
A consortium of indie outfits—the Journal of Experimental Fiction, the press Civil Coping Mechanisms, and trade publisher Pig Iron Press—are reintroducing the Kenneth Patchen Award, given for a novel that echoes the innovative spirit of the late fiction writer and poet.