http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/comment-page-1/#comment-70108 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Batuman, Braunstein, Ekiss, Garcia, Grotz, and Goddard Jones Win Jaffes Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:58:39 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/#comment-70108 [...] It’s not the mad bank that the strictly poetry awards hand out, but $25K will buy anyone a lot of writing time. [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/comment-page-1/#comment-59725 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » British Poets Need Our Pennies Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:39:34 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/#comment-59725 [...] That’s their richest poetry prize? Even considering the strength of the pound against the dollar, we Yanks have them beat by a mile. And they say we don’t appreciate culture. [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/comment-page-1/#comment-52035 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Adichie Wins the Orange Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:28:52 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton-wins-the-ruth-lilly/#comment-52035 [...] And not just a piece of fruit, either. Her book, Half of a Yellow Sun, has won the Orange Prize, and with it, about $60,000 (presumably because of the poetic nature of her prose). From Reuters, via the New York Times (”Nigerian Author Wins Top Women’s Fiction Prize“): LONDON (Reuters) – Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie landed the Orange Prize on Wednesday, one of the literary world’s top awards given to women writers, for a novel set in the 1960s Biafran civil war. [...]

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