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Prizes

• The White Review announces Short Story Prize shortlist

  The shortlist for the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize was announced earlier this week. The competition, which opened for submissions in December, will award the prize to a writer… Read more »

• What would you do if you won the lottery?

  Yesterday, two people — one in Arizona and one in Missouri — found out that they will be sharing a $587.5 million lottery prize. According to CBS News, a record-breaking… Read more »

• New Carnegie Prizes announced

  Where Pulitzer refrained, Carnegie leapt. Just a month after the Pulitzer Prize board could not agree on the year’s best work of fiction and didn’t give out its annual award,… Read more »

• Banana Yoshimoto shortlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize

  The Man Asian Literary Prize is awarded annually for the best novel written (or translated) in English by an Asian author. This year, Melville House author Banana Yoshimoto is among… Read more »

• VIDEO: Tranströmer receives his Nobel, amid music and lobster

  Tomas Tranströmer received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature in a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. According to The Local, an English-language Swedish news site, “On the menu, which was—as… Read more »

• Don’t go to the Ozarks for romance …

  “The Fallback Plan” is a weekly column at TheFasterTimes.com written by Leigh Stein, author of the forthcoming novel The Fallback Plan. It offers illustrated advice on any number of life’s questions. For an… Read more »

• André Schiffrin Awarded Chevalier in the Order of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic

  Two weeks ago, André Schiffrin, founder of The New Press, the former publisher of Pantheon Books, and the author of our A Political Eduction, was awarded the Chevalier in the… Read more »

• The Goncourt Prize: Should fiction and politics mix?

  Congratulations to Alexis Jenni, winner last week of the Prix Goncourt for his debut novel L’Art francais de la guerre (The French Art of War), a 600-page novel about France’s… 1 / Read more »

• Inuits in love – the winner of the 2011 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize

  Below is the winning story of the 2011 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize, written and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg, a 23-year-old University of Brighton graduate who lives with her parents in North London.… Read more »

• Tougher times than usual for translators?

  Every now and then translation becomes a hot topic. More often than not the new interest is prompted by some landmark new book; at the moment, of course, it’s Murakami’s… Read more »