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| x Poetry |
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Wallace Stevens Award |
Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις", poiesis, a "making") is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as...
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| National Book Award for Poetry | |||
| Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize | |||
| Arthur Rense Prize | |||
| Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | |||
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| x Architecture |
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Royal Gold Medal |
The term architecture (from Greek word ἀρχιτεκτονική - arkhitektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.
As a process, architecture activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures primarily to...
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| Most Significant Modern Contributions to Scottish Heritage | |||
| x Novel |
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National Book Award for Science Fiction |
A novel (from the Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern...
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| Prometheus Award for Best Novel | |||
| Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Novel | |||
| Prix Tour-Apollo Award | |||
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| x Film |
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Palme d'Or |
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
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| Golden Globe Awards | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay | |||
| Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay | |||
| Spur Award for Best Drama Script | |||
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| x Acting | Theatre World Award |
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.
The first actor is...
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| x Television |
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Kristallen for Best Female Host |
Television (TV) is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set,...
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| Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay | |||
| PEN USA Literary Award for a Teleplay | |||
| x Journalism |
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World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award |
Journalism is the production of news reports and editorials through media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet. Journalists—be they writers, editors, photographers, broadcast presenters or producers—serve as the main...
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| Andrew Cross Award | |||
| PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism | |||
| x Literature |
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters |
Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In...
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| National Book Award for Science Fiction | |||
| National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs | |||
| National Book Award for Nonfiction | |||
| National Book Award for Poetry | |||
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| x Non-fiction | National Book Award for Arts and Letters |
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that...
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| National Book Award for The Sciences | |||
| National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion | |||
| National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration | |||
| National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion | |||
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| x Science fiction |
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National Book Award for Science Fiction |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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| Prometheus Award for Best Novel | |||
| Prometheus Special Award | |||
| Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel | |||
| Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | |||
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| x Science fiction studies | Pilgrim Award |
This article is about the field of science fiction studies. For the journal of the same title, please see Science-Fiction Studies.
Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history,...
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| x Libertarianism |
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Prometheus Award for Best Novel |
Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which seek to maximize individual liberty and minimize or even abolish the state. Libertarians embrace viewpoints across that spectrum ranging from pro-property to anti...
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| Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | |||
| Prometheus Special Award | |||
| x Speculative fiction |
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Scribe Award for Speculative Fiction: Best Novel—Original |
Speculative fiction is a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally overlaps one or more of the following: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction,...
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| Scribe Award for Speculative Fiction: Best Novel—Adapted | |||
| Sunburst Award | |||
| Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction | |||
| x Religion |
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National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion |
A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life...
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| National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration | |||
| National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion | |||
| x Science |
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National Book Award for The Sciences |
Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") refers to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome. In this sense, science may refer to a highly skilled...
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| National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion | |||
| National Book Award for Science | |||
| Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology | |||
| x Young adult literature |
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Margaret Edwards Award |
Young Adult Literature is also called "YA Lit".
The definition of Young Adult Literature (YA Lit) varies based upon the age group at which the literature is aimed, and who is asked. Authors, readers, and young adult agencies all have different views...
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| Edgar Award for Best Young Adult | |||
| Angus Book Award | |||
| Andre Norton Award | |||
| CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers | |||
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| x Short story | Rea Award for the Short Story |
Short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or...
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| Hugo Award for Best Short Story | |||
| The Caine Prize for African Writing | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Short Story | |||
| Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | |||
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| x Comic literature | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize |
Comic literature is a genre of prose fiction designed to amuse the audience. Comic literature is an umbrella term, and occasionally branches into may other genres, such as fantasy and science fiction (e.g. Terry Pratchett). Meanwhile other famous...
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| x Children's literature |
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Regina Medal |
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed by the...
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| Caldecott Medal | |||
| Newbery Medal | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Juvenile | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Young Adult | |||
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| x Crime fiction |
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Cartier Diamond Dagger |
Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be,...
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| Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Play | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay | |||
| Edgar Award for Best Novel | |||
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| x Philosophy |
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National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion |
In the general sense, a philosophical theory is a theory that explains or accounts for a general philosophy or specific branch of philosophy. While any sort of thesis or opinion may be termed a theory, in analytic philosophy it is thought best to...
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| National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion | |||
| x Lifetime achievement | Cartier Diamond Dagger | ||
| Edward E. Smith Memorial Award | |||
| World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement | |||
| Gandalf Grand Master Award | |||
| Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award | |||
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| x Debut work | Compton Crook Award |
A debut work is the first work of a specific sort (first novel, first published story, first book of poems, first film appearance, etc.). A large number of awards are given for the first work in their discipline.
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| Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author | |||
| National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film | |||
| National Book Award for First Work of Fiction | |||
| Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel | |||
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| x Essay | SFRA Pioneer Award |
An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the...
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| Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay | |||
| x Fiction |
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National Book Award for Science Fiction |
Fiction, from the Latin fingere to create, fictum created, is anything imaginatively invented, a feigned existence, event, or state of things. In a second more concrete and basically 20th-century meaning fiction has become the general term uniting...
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| Man Booker International Prize | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Short Story | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Novel | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Novelette | |||
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| x Public limited company |
A public limited company (PLC only) is a type of limited company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland which is permitted to offer its shares to the public. All public limited companies' names end in "p.l.c"
A public limited company must...
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| x Business |
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A business (also called a firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit...
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| x Animated cartoon |
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An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). This is distinct...
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| x Single |
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In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways: originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold...
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| x Engineering |
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MacRobert Award |
Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired...
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| x Structural engineering |
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IStructE Gold Medal |
Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads economically. Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty within civil engineering, but it can also be...
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| Structural Special Award | |||
| Award for Pedestrian Bridges | |||
| x Concrete Structures | Building of the Year | ||
| x Physiology |
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Physiology (from Greek φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has traditionally been divided between plant physiology and animal and...
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| x Medicine |
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and...
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| x Physics |
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Nobel Prize in Physics |
Physics covers the AB portion of the Advanced Placement exam. It contains animations, text review and problem sets.
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| Wolf Prize in Physics | |||
| President's Medal | |||
| Kelvin Medal | |||
| Appleton Medal | |||
| x Economics |
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Nobel Prize in Economics |
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, ...
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| Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics | |||
| x Mathematics |
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Nemmers Prize in Mathematics |
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, relation, change, and various topics of pattern, form and entity. Mathematicians seek out patterns and other quantitative dimensions, whether dealing with numbers, spaces, natural science,...
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| Wolf Prize in Mathematics | |||
| Fields Medal | |||
| Abel Prize | |||
| Crafoord Prize | |||
| x Chemistry |
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem), meaning "earth") is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. It is a physical science for studies of various...
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| Wolf Prize in Chemistry | |||
| x Computer Science |
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Turing Award |
Computer science (or computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the...
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| Knuth Prize | |||
| x Algorithm | Knuth Prize |
In mathematics, computing, linguistics, and related subjects, an algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, often used for calculation and data processing. It is formally a type of...
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| x Atmospheric physics |
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Appleton Medal |
Atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists attempt to model Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of the other planets using fluid flow equations, chemical models, radiation balancing,...
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| x Theoretical physics | Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics |
Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics in an attempt to explain natural phenomena in a mathematical form. Its central core is mathematical physics , though other conceptual techniques are also used. The goal is...
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| x Secularism |
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Secularist of the Year |
Secularism is the assertion that governmental practices or institutions should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs.
In one sense, secularism may assert the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, and freedom from the...
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| x Humanism | International Humanist Award |
Humanism is a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition. This article uses the words Humanism and Humanist (with a capital 'H' and no adjective such as ...
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| x Stand-up comedy |
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Best Live Standup |
Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical "fourth wall". A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian (comedienne if female)...
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| x Cricket |
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Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy |
Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The...
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| Captain of the Year | |||
| Emerging Player of the Year | |||
| x Musical composition | Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition |
Musical composition is:
A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). If composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory,...
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| x Violin |
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The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello.
The violin is sometimes...
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| x Violoncello |
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The cello (plural cellos or celli — the c is pronounced [tʃ], as in the ch in "check", thus "chel-lo") is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as...
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| x Piano |
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Arthur Rubinstein Award |
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal....
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| Van Cliburn International Piano Competition | |||
| x Human rights |
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United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights |
Human rights refer to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and...
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| x Courage |
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Profile in Courage Award |
Courage, also known as bravery, will, intrepidity, and fortitude, is the ability to confront fear, pain, risk/danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. "Physical courage" is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, or threat of death, while ...
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| x Horse racing |
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European Horse of the Year |
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. It is inextricably...
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| x African literature |
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The Caine Prize for African Writing |
African literature refers to the literature of and for the African peoples. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa, while the European perception of literature generally...
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| Noma Award | |||
| Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa | |||
| x Food |
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One Michelin Star |
The food industry is the complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the...
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| Two Michelin Stars | |||
| Three Michelin Stars | |||
| x Illustration |
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Caldecott Medal |
An illustration is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate textual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper...
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| Pura Belpré Award for Illustration | |||
| Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration | |||
| Kate Greenaway Medal | |||
| Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal | |||
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| x Teleplay | Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay |
A teleplay is a play written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a TV script from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films.
On the hour-long TV drama shows of the Golden...
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| PEN USA Literary Award for a Teleplay | |||
| x Play |
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Edgar Award for Best Play |
A play, or stageplay, is a form of literature written by a playwright, almost always consisting of scripted dialogue between fictional characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George...
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| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | |||
| John Whiting Award | |||
| Pearson Award for Best New Play | |||
| Tanizaki Prize | |||
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| x Screenplay |
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Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay |
A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works. A play for television is known as a teleplay.
The format is structured as so one page usually...
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| Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay | |||
| Spur Award for Best Drama Script | |||
| PEN USA Literary Award for a Screenplay | |||
| x American literature |
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author |
American literature refers to written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States.
During its...
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| Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | |||
| Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | |||
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | |||
| Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award | |||
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