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Martha Mills young writers’ prize open for entries

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 12:38

Philip Pullman will help choose this year’s winners of award set up in memory of the keen young writer who died aged 13 in 2021

The Martha Mills young writers’ prize has opened for entries on the theme of “A Secret”.

The competition, run by the London Review Bookshop, invites 11- to 14-year-olds living in the UK to submit up to 500 words of any type of prose – such as a fictional story, a piece of schoolwork, or a diary entry – based on this year’s theme.

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Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 11:37

French singer dedicates top prizes at Les Flammes ‘to all the blacks’ after backlash over rumoured Paris show

The French pop star Aya Nakamura has won three big prizes at France’s Les Flammes awards for rap, R&B and pop, and she thanked fans for their support after a racist row over rumours she would sing at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

“I’m very honoured because being a black artist and coming from the banlieue is very difficult,” Nakamura told the ceremony, which she opened with a medley of her songs. She dedicated her awards – female artist of the year, pop album of the year, and international star of the year – “to all the blacks”.

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‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 18:30

A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture

A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity, permanence and a sense of immutability might be the ambition of most architects, but Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke would be delighted to see their building adapted and reconfigured, or ultimately dismantled and moved somewhere else altogether.

“We imagined the project as a changeable system,” says Düsing, co-designer of the new study pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig , Germany, which has been named this year’s winner of the EU Mies award (formerly the Mies van der Rohe award), the biennial European Union prize for contemporary architecture. “We wanted it to be a counter model to the university’s high-rise building and its conventional one-sided lecture halls. It’s more like an extension of the landscape that can be forever modified, a non-hierarchical space that the students can make their own.”

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Booker prize urged to consider name change over slavery link

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 17:23

Radio DJ Richie Brave, whose ancestors were enslaved, says organisers should be ‘asking themselves some questions’

The Radio 1Xtra host Richie Brave has said the Booker prize should consider changing its name because of its links to enslavement.

Brave’s legal surname is Booker and his ancestors were enslaved by the founders of the company that originally sponsored the prize.

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Inaugural Guardian Advertising Awards take place in London

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 23:01

Celebrating advertisers with scale, influence and integrity, the ceremony recognised brands including Nurofen and Google Pixel

The inaugural Guardian Advertising Awards, launched to celebrate scale, influence and integrity across the publisher’s platforms, have recognised brands including Nurofen, Google Pixel and Charlie Bigham’s.

The Grand Prix award was given to Nurofen for its See My Pain campaign, which was praised by judges for its real-world impact in tackling awareness of the gender pain gap and the brand’s “commitment to addressing complex health challenges”. The campaign also won in the “everyday brands” category.

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Charco Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘gut-punch’ novel

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 April - 19:30

Of Cattle and Men by Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry, is set in a slaughterhouse in an isolated corner of Brazil

Charco Press’s Of Cattle and Men by Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry, has won the Republic of Consciousness prize, which recognises books from small publishers.

The 99-page book, described as a “gut-punch of a novel” by the judge Sana Goyal, is set in a slaughterhouse in an isolated corner of Brazil where cows begin to disappear, seemingly by suicide.

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Don’t say ‘show a little leg’, Hannah Waddingham rebukes photographer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 April - 17:20

Footage shows Olivier awards host saying on red carpet: ‘Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man’

The actor Hannah Waddingham was cheered by onlookers after she reprimanded a photographer who appeared to ask her to “show leg” on the Olivier awards red carpet.

In a video posted on X, the photographer’s comments are inaudible but Waddingham responds: “Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man, my friend.”

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Guys, dolls and an A-list cast: behind the curtains at the Olivier awards – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 April - 12:38

Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi attended the annual theatre bash to catch Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Cara Delevingne roaming around backstage at the Royal Albert Hall

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Stars of London stage gather for Olivier awards 2024

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 14 April - 23:34

West End actors awarded in ceremony at Royal Albert Hall in London