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| x Paperback |
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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original |
Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its binding. The covers of such books are usually made of paper or cardboard, and are usually held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
Inexpensive books...
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| Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel | |||
| Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award | |||
| Philip K. Dick Award | |||
| Book Sense Book of the Year Award: Paperback | |||
| x True crime | Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime |
True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.
The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Depending on the...
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| x Novella | Nebula Award for Best Novella |
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40...
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| Locus Award for Best Novella | |||
| World Fantasy Award for Best Novella | |||
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novella | |||
| Ditmar Award for Best Novella | |||
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| x Collection | World Fantasy Award for Best Collection |
A collection is a book containing stories or essays by a single author.
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| Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection | |||
| Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection | |||
| Deathrealm Award for Best Collection | |||
| Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | |||
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| x Fantasy |
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World Fantasy Award for Best Artist |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional | |||
| World Fantasy Award for Best Novel | |||
| John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book | |||
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| x Visual arts |
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World Fantasy Award for Best Artist |
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, modern visual arts (photography, video, and filmmaking), design and crafts. These...
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| International Horror Guild Award For Best Art | |||
| Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Published Illustration | |||
| Sir Julius Vogel Award for Professional Artwork | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist | |||
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| x Anthology | World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology |
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts. In genre fiction anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and...
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| Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology | |||
| International Horror Guild Award For Best Anthology | |||
| Aurealis Award for Best Anthology | |||
| Shirley Jackson Award for Anthology | |||
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| x Canadian literature |
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Vicky Metcalf Award |
Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes. Critics against such thematic criticism in Canadian literature, such as Frank Davey, have argued that a focus on theme diminishes the appreciation of complexity of...
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| Rea Award for the Short Story | |||
| Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour | |||
| Pat Lowther Award | |||
| Marian Engel Award | |||
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| x Commonwealth of Nations |
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Guardian First Book Award |
The Commonwealth of Nations, often referred to as the Commonwealth and previously as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states, all but two of which were formerly part of the British...
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| Man Booker Prize | |||
| John Llewellyn Rhys Prize | |||
| Betty Trask Award | |||
| Carnegie Medal | |||
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| x Literary criticism | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism |
Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Though the two activities are...
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| William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review | |||
| x British literature |
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Angus Book Award |
British literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as well as to literature from England, Wales and Scotland prior to the formation of the United Kingdom.
By far the largest part of...
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| Author's Club First Novel Award | |||
| Waverton Good Read Award | |||
| John Llewellyn Rhys Prize | |||
| Newdigate prize | |||
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| x Irish literature |
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Man Booker Prize |
For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature in all its branches. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.
The island's most widely-known literary works are...
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| x Editor | Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form | ||
| Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor | |||
| Maxwell E. Perkins Award | |||
| Locus Award for Best Editor | |||
| x Book series | Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series |
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organised in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their...
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| x Horror |
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Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human...
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| Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction | |||
| Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction | |||
| Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction | |||
| Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers | |||
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| x Australian literature |
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Barbara Jefferis Award |
Australian literature began soon after the settlement of the country by Europeans. Common themes include indigenous and settler identity, alienation, exile and relationship to place - but it is a varied and contested area.
Early popular works tended...
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| National Biography Award | |||
| Aurealis Award for Best Children's Short Fiction | |||
| The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction | |||
| Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story | |||
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| x Picture book |
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CBCA Picture Book of the Year |
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil.
Two of the earliest books with something...
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| Golden Duck Award for Picture Book | |||
| Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book | |||
| x Jewish literature | Sydney Taylor Book Award | ||
| x Japanese literature |
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Hayakawa Award for Best Japanese Short Story |
Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. Early works were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion...
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| Akutagawa Prize | |||
| Tanizaki Prize | |||
| Naoki Prize | |||
| Seiun Award for Best Japanese Novel | |||
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| x Biography | National Biography Award |
A biography is a description or account of someone's life and the times, which is usually published in the form of a book or an essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography (auto meaning "self," giving "self-biography") is a...
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| National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography | |||
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography | |||
| Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Biography | |||
| Duff Cooper Prize | |||
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| x Autobiography |
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National Biography Award |
An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.
The word autobiography was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English...
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| National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography | |||
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography | |||
| PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir | |||
| x Book review | Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing |
A book review (or book report) is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. It is often carried out in periodicals, as school work, or online. Its length may vary from a single paragraph to a...
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| Hugo Award for Best Book Reviewer | |||
| x Western |
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Spur Award for Best Western Novel (Short Novel) |
The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known...
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| Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (Long Novel) | |||
| Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel | |||
| Spur Award for Best Short Fiction | |||
| Spur Award for Best Drama Script | |||
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| x Historical fiction | Geoffrey Bilson Award |
Historical fiction is a sub-genre of fiction that often portrays fictional accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events. Writers of stories in this genre, while penning fiction, nominally attempt to capture the spirit, manners, and...
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| Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction | |||
| Whitney Award for Best Historical | |||
| x Thriller |
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CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger |
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and...
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| Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller | |||
| x Humour |
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Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour |
Humorous fan works are funny. Or at least they try to be.
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| Kassel Literary Prize | |||
| Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | |||
| Roald Dahl Funny Prize for Funniest Book for Children Aged Six and Under | |||
| Roald Dahl Funny Prize for Funniest Book for Children Aged Seven to Fourteen | |||
| x European literature |
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Austrian State Prize for European Literature |
European literature refers to the literature of Europe.
European literature includes literature in many languages; among the most important of the modern written works are those in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, German, Italian, Modern...
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| x Venezuelan literature | Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize |
Venezuelan literature can be traced to pre-Hispanic times with the myths and oral literature that formed the cosmogonic view of the world that indigenous people had. Some of these stories are still known in Venezuela. Like many Latin American...
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| x Indian literature |
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Jnanpith Award |
Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognized languages.
The earliest works of Indian literature were orally...
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| x Austrian literature |
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Anton Wildgans Prize |
Austrian literature is the literature written in Austria, which is mostly, but not exclusively, written in the German language. Some scholars speak about Austrian literature in a strict sense from the year 1803 on when Francis II disbanded the Holy...
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| x History |
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Bancroft Prize |
History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of...
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| Duff Cooper Prize | |||
| Hessell-Tiltman Prize | |||
| Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History | |||
| Wolfson History Prize | |||
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| x Polish literature |
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Nike Award |
Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries (including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...
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| Kościelski Award | |||
| x Political Science |
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Duff Cooper Prize |
Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of...
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| x Small press |
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WSFA Small Press Award |
Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts. Small presses are also defined as those that publish an average...
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| x Latin American literature | Xavier Villaurrutia Award |
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America (and the Caribbean) in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous tongues. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second...
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| x German literature |
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Toucan Prize |
German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.
This includes literature written in Germany itself as well as German-language Swiss and Austrian literature, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.
German...
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| German Fantastic Prize for Best German Novel | |||
| German Fantastic Prize for Best Debut German Novel | |||
| German Fantastic Prize for Best German Short Story | |||
| German Fantastic Prize for Best Original Anthology/Short Story Collection | |||
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| x Norwegian literature | Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize |
Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr...
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| x Light poetry | Michael Braude Award for Light Verse |
Light poetry, or light verse, is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Poems considered "light" are usually brief, and can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often feature wordplay, including puns, adventurous rhyme and heavy alliteration....
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| x Translation |
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Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation |
Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the source...
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| Harold Morton Landon Translation Award | |||
| PEN USA Literary Award for Translation | |||
| PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation | |||
| PEN Award for Poetry in Translation | |||
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| x Finnish literature |
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Thanks for the Book Award |
Finnish literature refers to literature written in Finland. Earliest texts in Finland were written in Swedish or Latin during the Finnish Middle Age (ca. 1200 - 1523). Finnish-language literature was slowly developing from the 16th century onwards....
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| Atorox Award | |||
| Kuvastaja Award | |||
| x Creative nonfiction |
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Edna Staebler Award |
Creative nonfiction (also known as literary or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical...
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| Sarah Winnemucca Award For Creative Nonfiction | |||
| PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction | |||
| x Luxembourg literature | Servais Prize | ||
| x LGBT literature |
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Gaylactic Spectrum Award For Best Short Fiction |
LGBT literature is a collective term for literature produced by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes concerning LGBT communities.
Lesbian literature, gay pulp and gay...
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| Gaylactic Spectrum Award For Best Novel | |||
| Gaylactic Spectrum Award Hall of Fame - Media | |||
| Gaylactic Spectrum Award For Best Other Work | |||
| Gaylactic Spectrum Award Hall of Fame | |||
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| x Comic book |
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Gaylactic Spectrum Award For Best Best Comic/Graphic Novel |
A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a funny book, comic paper or comic magazine) is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book artform)...
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| International Horror Guild Award For Best Illustrated Narrative | |||
| Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book | |||
| Eisner Award for Best Writer | |||
| Seiun Award for Best Manga | |||
| x Graphic novel |
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Gaylactic Spectrum Award For Best Best Comic/Graphic Novel |
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using the comics form. The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across...
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| International Horror Guild Award For Best Illustrated Narrative | |||
| Seiun Award for Best Manga | |||
| x Periodical publication | International Horror Guild Award For Best Periodical |
A periodical publication, or just periodical, is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly,...
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| Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Fanzine | |||
| Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Fanzine | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine | |||
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| x Person of color | Beyond Margins Award |
Person of color (plural: people of color) is a term used, primarily in the United States, to describe all people who are not white. The term is meant to be inclusive among non-white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism. People of color...
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| x Magazine editor | PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing | ||
| x Novelette | Hugo Award for Best Novel or Novelette |
A novelette (or, rarely, novelet) is a piece of short prose fiction. The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms, like a novella, is usually based upon word count. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula awards for...
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| Nebula Award for Best Novelette | |||
| Hugo Award for Best Novelette | |||
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novelette | |||
| Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella/Novelette | |||
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| x Website | Hugo Award for Best Web Site |
A website (also spelled web site) is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web...
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| ENnie Award for Best Website | |||
| German Fantastic Prize for Best Website | |||
| x Publishing |
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Hugo Award for Best Publisher |
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases authors may be their own publishers, meaning: originators and developers of content...
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| California Book Award Silver Medal - Contribution to Publishing | |||
| Locus Award for Best Publisher | |||
| HWA Specialty Press Award | |||
| x Russian Language |
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Booker-Open Russia Prize |
Russian (русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yazyk, Russian pronunciation: [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk], meaning 'Russian tongue [language]') is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the...
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| x Literary agent | Maxwell E. Perkins Award |
A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists,...
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| x Publisher | Maxwell E. Perkins Award | ||
| x American football |
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Heisman Trophy |
American football, known in the United States simply as football and often as gridiron or tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score...
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| 2nd Team All-State | |||
| x College football |
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Heisman Trophy |
College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges and military academies. It was through college play that American football first gained popularity in the United States.
Modern...
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| x Theatre |
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Governor General's Award for French language poetry or drama |
Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is a branch of the performing arts. While any performance may be considered theatre, as a performing art, it focuses almost exclusively on live performers creating a self contained drama. A performance...
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| Pearson Award for Best New Play | |||
| John Whiting Award | |||
| Governor General's Award for French language drama | |||
| PEN USA Literary Award for Drama | |||
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| x Footbridge |
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Award for Pedestrian Bridges |
A footbridge or pedestrian bridge is a bridge designed for pedestrians and in some cases cyclists, animal traffic and horse riders, rather than vehicular traffic. In many developed countries, footbridges are both functional and can be beautiful...
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| x Real Estate |
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Best Islamic Real Estate project |
Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is stationary, or fixed in location. Reference: ''The American Heritage...
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| x Modern architecture |
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Most Significant Modern Contributions to Scottish Heritage |
Modern architecture is art with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was...
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| Architectural Competition to design the Wiener Stadthalle | |||
