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 British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by ''The Bookseller''
-For information on the Booker Prize see: [[Entertainment/Booker prize|Booker Prize]]
+For information on the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize see: [[Entertainment/Booker prize|Booker Prize]]
 == Literary groups ==

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	British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by ''The Bookseller''		British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by ''The Bookseller''
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		+	For information on the Booker Prize see: [[Entertainment/Booker prize\|Booker Prize]]

	== Literary groups ==		== Literary groups ==

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-Biography and Autobiography
+== Biography and Autobiography ==
 ''Addicted'' – '''Tony Adams'''
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 ''Rolling with the Stones'' – '''Bill Wyman'''
+== Awards ==
 The TS Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society, of which TS Eliot was a founding member. First awarded in 1953. Prize – £10,000
 Costa Book Awards (known as the Whitbread Awards until 2005) – First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children’s Book
-Bessie – award for the Orange Prize (£30,000)
+Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Women's Prize for Fiction (2013), Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12) and Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes. The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the ''Bessie'' created by artist Grizel Niven
 Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher, born in Hungary. Pulitzer Prizes first awarded in 1917. Pulitzer Prizes are administered by Columbia University in New York City
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 Each year since 1993, ''Literary Review'' presents the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. First winner was Melvyn Bragg, with ''A Time to Dance''
-Man Booker Prize for Fiction was formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize
+Booker Prize was formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019)
 Folio Prize is a literary award sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society. It is given to an English-language book of fiction published in the UK by an author from any country. The first award was in March 2014
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 Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 for a novel written in Spanish. Financially, it is the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature
-Literary Groups
+British Book Awards or Nibbies are literary awards for the best UK writers and their works, administered by ''The Bookseller''
 Thirties poets – included Louis MacNeice, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis. They were also known as MacSpaunday, and the Pylon Poets, for their use of industrial imagery. The actual term 'pylon' was derived from Spender's 1933 poem ''The Pylons''
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 Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth and Shelley – The Romantic Poets
+== Movements ==
 Ezra Pound founded the Imagist movement in poetry
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 Dirty Realism – a North American literary movement born in the 1970s in which the narrative is stripped down to its fundamental features. Dirty realism authors include the movement ‘godfather’ Charles Bukowski and Cormac McCarthy
-Old books
+== Early literature ==
 ''Kalevala'' – epic poem of Finland
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 ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' is a late 14th century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table
-Publishers
+Nag Hammadi library is a collection of Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Twelve leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer
 Penguin Books was founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane. First book was ''Ariel: a Shelley Romance'' by Andre Maurois
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 The Observer's Books were a series of small, pocket sized books, published by Frederick Warne & Co in the United Kingdom from 1937 to 2003
+== Poet laureate ==
 John Dryden – first poet laureate (1668)
 : Nahum Tate
-Alfred Lord Tennyson served the longest time in office as Poet Laureate (1850–1892)
+Thomas Gray was offered the position in 1757, but he declined
-Thomas Gray – refused Poet Laureate
+: Robert Southey, after Walter Scott refused the post
-: Robert Southey, on the refusal of Sir Walter Scott
+: William Wordsworth
-: William Wordsworth
+: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, on the refusal of Samuel Russell
-: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, on the refusal of Samuel Russell
+Alfred Lord Tennyson served the longest time in office as Poet Laureate (1850–1892)
 : Alfred Austin, on the refusal of William Morris
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 : Carol Ann Duffy
-Miscellaneous
+The current salary is £5,750 and a barrel of sherry (originally known as a ‘butt of sack’)
 Aga Saga – fictional family sagas dealing with British ‘middle-class country or village life’. The term was coined in 1992 by novelist Terence Blacker to describe specifically the work of Joanna Trollope
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 Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorize the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Among the earliest Newgate novels were Thomas Gaspey's ''Richmond'' (1827) and ''History of George Godfrey'' (1828), Edward Bulwer-Lytton's ''Paul Clifford'' (1830) and ''Eugene Aram'' (1832), and William Harrison Ainsworth's ''Rookwood'' (1834), which featured Dick Turpin as its hero

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