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literary prizes

Awards for literature, usually annual and for a specific category (poetry, non-fiction, children's, and so on). The Nobel Prize for Literature is international; other prizes are usually for books first published in a particular language or country, such as the Booker Prize (Commonwealth), the Prix Goncourt (France), the Pulitzer Prizes (USA), the Miles Franklin Award (Australia), and the Akutagawa Prize (Japan).



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Levy's Small Island has captured a mass readership, and judges of the major literary prizes have showered many awards on it: the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004; the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Award, 2005; and the prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award, 2004.
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Transactions between them, then, are bound to be unequal at least in part because of the "gardiens litteraires" at the centers--the publishers, critics, judges of literary prizes, and translators--who deal with the consecration and dissemination of works and evaluate them according to an often exclusive set of standards.
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This novel about runaways in Venice, Italy, has been a best seller in Germany and has won literary prizes there and in Austria and Switzerland.
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