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Montreal international poetry prize 'for poets by poets'
Poetry is enduring, if not a deep freeze, at least a hard frost. Austerity measures across Europe and Canada have led to severe cuts in arts funding. Amidst the scrabble to fund prizes whose state subsidies have been slashed, a brand new award has emerged on a different funding model, with the winner to scoop 50, 000 Canadian dollars on 15 December
prize, culture calendar, writers, quebec, canada, poetry, nobel literature prize
Lobbying register: in Brussels we trust
While president elect Barack Obama comes down hard on lobbyists in the US, voicing plans to ‘curb’ their role, in Brussels we put our trust in a lobbyist voluntary register
prize, european elections 2009, environment, money, power, euweek, politics
Nobel prize for literature: Horace Engdahl on 'ignorant' American writing
The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy criticises US writing days before the winner is announced, on 9 October
prize, claudio magris, nobel literature prize, horace engdahl, doris lessing, literature, united states
