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      Naomi Klein and Laura Cumming shortlisted for inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 18:00

    Joining the Guardian columnist and Observer art critic are academics Tiya Miles and Noreen Masud, FT journalist Madhumita Murgia and poet Safiya Sinclair
    Inside the shortlist choices with the chair of judges

    Online conspiracy theories and AI are tackled in two of the six books on the inaugural Women’s prize for non-fiction shortlist.

    Doppelganger by Guardian US columnist Naomi Klein, which explores conspiracies and far-right politics, and Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, about the impact of emerging AI technologies on society, were both shortlisted for the prize.

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      Bruce Springsteen becomes first non-Brit inducted into Ivors Academy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 17:00


    The Boss says he is proud to become a fellow after being recognised for his ‘impact on the UK’s cultural landscape’

    There is perhaps nobody in the US’s short history who is better-known for describing blue-collar American life.

    But Bruce Springsteen is to be recognised by the most British of institutions when he becomes the first foreigner to be inducted as a fellow of the Ivors Academy.

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      Poem inspired by New York mugging wins top prize in National Poetry Competition

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 20:45

    Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in the account of an abduction’

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    A poem inspired by the author’s experience of being mugged has won the first prize of £5,000 in the National Poetry Competition.

    The Time I Was Mugged in New York City by Imogen Wade tells the story of being locked in a van at JFK airport by a man dressed in black, driven to Grand Central station and made to give the man money.

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      Andrew Scott wins best actor at Critics’ Circle theatre awards

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 14:30

    Irish actor awarded prize for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, following his win at Critics’ Circle film awards

    Andrew Scott has been named best actor at the Critics’ Circle theatre awards for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens. In February, the star won best actor at the Critics’ Circle film awards for his performance in Andrew Haigh’s film All of Us Strangers . It is the first time both awards have been won by the same actor in the same year.

    The Fleabag star took all eight roles in the solo show Vanya , which ran at the Duke of York’s theatre in London, directed by Sam Yates, and was released in cinemas last month. Scott previously picked up the best actor award for Present Laughter at the 2019 awards and the best Shakespearean performance award for Hamlet in 2017.

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      Botanical fairytale set in Kew Gardens wins the Waterstones children’s book prize

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 20:00

    Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson – about a girl who finds a door to a magical realm while searching for her mother – wins the overall and young readers awards

    Kew Gardens features a hidden magical door in the winning book for this year’s £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize.

    Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson was voted the winner by Waterstones booksellers. The book “is a spellbinding triumph that will make children fall in love with the world they are reading about, and with reading itself,” said Bea Carvalho, head of books at Waterstones.

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      Touch the future: outstanding student photographers – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 09:09


    With images depicting elderly isolation and the transgender experience, these five emerging talents have earned recognition from the Hahnemühle Student Award

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      Caleb Azumah Nelson and Mary Jean Chan shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 00:01

    The six-strong list of titles include novels, short stories and poetry, with the winning writer to receive £20,000 when revealed in May

    Mary Jean Chan, Caleb Azumah Nelson and AK Blakemore are among the shortlistees for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize .

    The award, worth £20,000, celebrates poetry, novels, short stories and drama by writers aged 39 and under in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age.

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      Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prize

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 14 March - 19:30

    Irish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernadine Evaristo

    The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland.

    Murray was announced as the winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday. “This is a wonderfully ambitious and entrancing novel about a family imploding against a background of Ireland’s economic and social crisis of the late 00s,” said the judging chair and Booker-winning author Bernardine Evaristo.

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      ‘I had to do my bit’: a history of controversial politics at the Oscars

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 18:13

    The fallout from Jonathan Glazer’s rousing yet willfully misconstrued acceptance speech makes him the latest in a long line of artists who have tried to use a public stage for good

    There were relatively few surprises at this year’s Oscars – the grand history of Oppenheimer seducing voters, the grand handsomeness of Ryan Gosling seducing viewers – but an otherwise played-safe broadcast found itself in spikier territory when British writer-director Jonathan Glazer took the stage.

    The film-maker was collecting the award for best international feature for his unsettling second world war drama The Zone of Interest, set on the outskirts of Auschwitz, when he bucked the apolitical trend of the night to make a statement.

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