Poet wins $100,000 prize
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Poet Tom Sleigh's "Space Walk" has been named this year's winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a $100,000 prize given to someone "who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career."
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Poet Ted Kooser from Nebraska, a "major voice",  is named the new US poet laureate.
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RapHappy.com nails $100,000 Digital Incubator award from MTV and Cisco for their online rap creation and sharing app.
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Two winners of the Forward Prize for Poetry have previous successes in the competition.
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Finalists display innovations and compete for $100,000 scholarships at the nation's top high school science event.
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Hoping to promote transatlantic tourism, French-born New York hotelier Raymond Orteig in 1919 pledged a prize of $25,000 -- worth about $750,000 today -- for the first nonstop flight between New York and France.
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Lucette Lagnado, a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir, âThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Familyâs Exodus From Old Cairo to the New Worldâ (HarperCollins/Ecco). Ms. Lagnado was chosen by the Jewish Book Council for âher demonstration of a fresh vision and evidence of future potential to further contribute to the Jewish literary community.â ... Tom Sleigh of Brooklyn, a teacher in the creative writing program at Hunter College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection âSpace Walkâ (Houghton Mifflin). The annual award, established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts and administered by Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., recognizes a poet âwho is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.â.
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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Art aficionados hope that the new post may revive the fortunes of literacy by spreading the power of poetry.
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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson and his  translator Anne Born won the world&#39;s richest literary prize for  a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel  &quot;Out Stealing Horses.&quot;
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Sean O'Brien is announced as the winner of the TS Eliot prize for his poetry collection The Drowned Book.
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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A life-saving device called the  Tongue Sucker, a low-cost prosthetic foot and a high-speed  Tesla Roadster electric sports car were among the winners of  the prestigious INDEX awards, a 100,000-euro prize for design  ideas.
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A novel set in 19th century Paraguay wins the $10,000 fiction prize at the US National Book Awards.
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One result of all the publicity from Doris Lessingâs Nobel Prize in Literature was that more than 100 people signed up to be the writerâs friend on MySpace.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson and his translator Anne Born won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel "Out Stealing Horses".