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▪ TableWorld Literary Prizes 2004All prizes are annual and were awarded in 2004 unless otherwise stated. Currency equivalents as of July 1, 2004, were as follows: €1 = $1.219; £1 = $1.819; Can$1 = $0.750; ¥1 = $0.009; SKr 1 = $0.133; and DKr 1 = $0.164.Nobel Prize for LiteratureAwarded since 1901; included in the behest of Alfred Nobel, who specified a prize for those who "shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." The prizewinners are selected in October by the Swedish Academy and receive the award on December 10 in Stockholm. Prize: a gold medal and an award that varies from year to year; in 2004 the award was SKr 10,000,000.Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardFirst awarded in 1996, this is the largest international literary prize; it is open to books written in any language. The award is a joint initiative of Dublin City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and the productivity-improvement company IMPAC. It is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries. Prize: €100,000, of which 25% goes to the translator if the book was not written in English, and a Waterford crystal trophy. The awards are given at Dublin Castle in May or June.This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jalloun (Morocco); translated from the French by Linda CoverdaleNeustadt International Prize for LiteratureEstablished in 1969 and awarded biennially by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today. Novelists, poets, and dramatists are equally eligible. Prize: $50,000, a replica of an eagle feather cast in silver, and a certificate.Adam Zagajewski (Poland), awarded in 2004Commonwealth Writers PrizeEstablished in 1987 by the Commonwealth Foundation. In 2004 there was one award of £10,000 for the best book submitted and an award of £3,000 for the best first book. In each of the four regions of the Commonwealth, two prizes of £1,000 are awarded: one for the best book and one for the best first book.Best Book A Distant Shore by Caryl PhillipsBest First Book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonRegional winners—Best BookAfrica The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (South Africa)Eurasia A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (U.K.)Southeast Asia & South Pacific The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser (Australia)Established in 1969, sponsored by Booker McConnell Ltd. and, beginning in 2002, the Man Group; administered by the National Book League in the U.K. Awarded to the best full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the U.K. during the 12 months ended September 30. Prize: £50,000.The Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstEstablished in 1971. The winners of the Whitbread Book Awards for Poetry, Biography, Novel, and First Novel as well as the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year each receive £5,000, and the winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year prize receives an additional £25,000. Winners are announced in January of the year following the award.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003 award)Orange Prize for FictionEstablished in 1996. Awarded to a work of published fiction written by a woman in English and published in the U.K. during the 12 months ended March 31. Prize: £30,000.Small Island by Andrea Levy (U.K.)PEN/Faulkner AwardThe PEN/Faulkner Foundation each year recognizes the best published works of fiction by contemporary American writers. Named for William Faulkner, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honour their peers and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the U.S. Prize: $15,000.The Early Stories by John UpdikePulitzer Prizes in Letters and DramaBegun in 1917, awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board for books published in the previous year. Five categories in Letters are honoured: Fiction, Biography, and General Non-Fiction (authors of works in these categories must be American citizens); History (the subject must be American history); and Poetry (for original verse by an American author). The Drama prize is for "a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life." Prize: $10,000 in each category.Fiction The Known World by Edward P. JonesBiography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William TaubmanPoetry Walking to Martha s Vineyard by Franz WrightHistory A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven HahnGeneral Non-Fiction Gulag: A History by Anne ApplebaumDrama I Am My Own Wife by Doug WrightAwarded since 1950 by the National Book Foundation, a consortium of American publishing groups. Categories have varied, beginning with 3—Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry—swelling to 22 awards in 1983, and returning to 4 (the initial 3 plus Young People's Literature) in 2001. Prize: $10,000 and a bronze statue.Fiction Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien BynumNonfiction Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin BoylePoetry Shoah Train by William HeyenFrost MedalAwarded annually since 1930 by the Poetry Society of America for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry.Richard HowardGovernor General s Literary AwardsCanada s premier literary awards. Prizes are given in 14 categories altogether: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Translation, Nonfiction, and Children s Literature (Text and Illustration), each in English and French. Established in 1937. Prize: Can$15,000.Griffin Poetry PrizeEstablished in 2001 and administered by the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the award honours first-edition books of poetry published during the preceding year. Prize: Can$40,000 each for the two awards.Canadian Award Loop by Anne SimpsonInternational Award The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler (U.S.)Büchner PrizeGeorg-Büchner-Preis. Awarded for a body of literary work in the German language. First awarded in 1923; now administered by the German Academy for Language and Literature. Prize: €40,000.Wilhelm Genazino (Germany)Hooft PrizeP.C. Hooftprijs. The Dutch national prize for literature, established in 1947. Prize: €60,000.Cees Nooteboom for proseNordic Council Literary PrizeEstablished in 1961. Selections are made by a 10-member jury from among original works first published in Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish during the past two years or other Nordic languages (Finnish, Faroese, Sami, etc.) during the past four years. Prize: DKr 350,000.Juoksuhaudantie ("The Trench Road") by Kari Hotakainen (Finland)Prix de l Académie Goncourt. First awarded in 1903 from the estate of French literary figure Edmond Huot de Goncourt, to memorialize him and his brother, Jules. Prize: €10.Le Soleil des Scorta by Laurent GaudéPrix FeminaEstablished in 1904. The awards for works "of imagination" are announced by an all-women jury in the categories of French fiction, fiction in translation, and nonfiction. Announced in November together with the Prix Médicis. Prize: Not stated (earlier the award was F 5,000 [about $690]).French Fiction Une Vie française by Jean-Paul DuboisCervantes Prize for Hispanic LiteraturePremio Cervantes. Established in 1976 and awarded for a body of work in the Spanish language. Announced in December and awarded the following April. Prize: €90,151.Raphael Sánchez Ferlosio (Spain)Planeta PrizePremio Planeta de Novela. Established in 1951 by the Planeta Publishing House for the best unpublished, original novel in Spanish. Awarded in Barcelona in October. Prize: €600,000 and publication by Planeta.Un milagro en equilibrio by Lucía EtxebarríaCamões PrizePremio Luis da Camões da Literatura. Established in 1988 by the governments of Portugal and Brazil to honour a "representatative" author writing in the Portuguese language. Prize: $100,000.Agustina Bessa-Luis (Portugal)Russian Booker PrizeAwarded since 1992, the Russian Booker Prize has sometimes carried the names of various sponsors—e.g., Smirnoff in 1997-2001. In 2004 it was underwritten by the Open Russia Charitable Organization and called the Booker/Open Russia Literary Prize. Awards: $15,000 for the winner; $1,000 for each finalist.Volteryantsy i Volteryanki ("Voltaireans Male and Female") by Vasily AksyonovNaguib Mahfouz Medal for LiteratureEstablished in 1996 and awarded for the best contemporary novel published in Arabic. The winning work is translated into English and published in Cairo, London, and New York. Prize: $1,000 and a silver medal.Al-Mahbubat ("The Loved Ones") by Alia Mamdouh (Iraq)Jun ichiro Tanizaki PrizeTanizaki Jun ichiro Sho. Established in 1965 to honour the memory of novelist Jun ichiro Tanizaki. Awarded annually to a Japanese author for an exemplary literary work. Prize: ¥1,000,000 and a trophy.Horie Toshiyuki for Yukinuma to sono shuhen ("Yukinuma and Its Environs")Ryunosuke Akutagawa PrizeAkutagawa Ryunosuke Sho. Established in 1935 and now sponsored by the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, the prize is awarded in January and June for the best serious work of fiction by a promising new Japanese writer published in a magazine or journal. Prize: ¥1,000,000 and a commemorative gift."Keritai senaka" ("Kick Me") by Wataya Risa (130th prize, second half of 2003)"Kaigo nyumon" ("Guide for the Care of the Elderly") by Mobu Norio (131st prize, first half of 2004)Mao Dun Literary AwardEstablished in 1981 to honour contemporary Chinese novels and named after novelist Shen Yanbing (1896-1981), whose nom de plume was Mao Dun; awarded every five years. Latest awards were announced on Oct. 12, 2000 (the same day as the Nobel Prize for Literature).Jueze ("Hard Choice") by Zhang PingChang hen ge (2000; "Song of Everlasting Sorrow") by Wang AnyiChen ai luo ding (1999; "When Dust Settles") by Ah LaiNanfang you jiamu ("Fine Tree Possessed in the Southland") and Buye zhi hou ("Delightful Marquis to Break Drowsiness"), from Charen sanbuqu ("Trilogy of Tea Men") by Wang XufengSee as table:
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