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V&A at centre of row over auction of private tour as prize at Tory fundraising event
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The V&A has been urged to investigate why the museum auctioned a private tour as a prize at a Conservative fundraising dinner when one of its trustees is a Tory party chair. In a letter to the commissioner on publ...
Artist who ‘reclaims black experience’ wins Deutsche Börse photography prize
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An artist whose staged portraits reflect the language of the family photo album has won one of the most prestigious prizes in photography, with judges saying her work “reframes and reclaims the black experience”. Dean...
Debut novelist wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for No One Is Talking About This
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American novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for her “searingly witty and innovative take on modern day internet culture”. The prize, awarded to Lock...
Six ‘wonderfully diverse’ novels make the Women’s prize shortlist
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Six countries are represented on this year’s Women’s prize for fiction shortlist, with Meg Mason and Elif Shafak among those in the running for the £30,000 prize. The New Zealander and the Turkish-British author are u...
Breadfruit, cherries and drag: this is a lip-smacking Turner prize shortlist
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What a good Turner prize shortlist this is. With artists engaging in photography, sculpture, moving image, installation, optrede, sound and the spoken word, what immediately strikes me, as well as their variety, a ...
Turner prize: Trafalgar Square whipped cream and fly sculpture among shortlist
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The artist who installed the fourth plinth sculpture in Trafalgar Square featuring a dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a drone and a fly has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner prize. Heather Phillipso...
International Booker prize shortlist delivers ‘awe and exhilaration’
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From Olga Tokarczuk’s epic about a man who claimed to be the messiah to Geetanjali Shree’s tale of a widow finding a new lease of life, female writers take the majority of places on this year’s International Booker pr...
The talented wives who had their eyes, if not their hands, on the prize
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Barbara Trapido’s marvellous novel Brother of the More Famous Jack has just been reissued to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first publication. The title alone deserves a party. It puts its finger on a big categ...
Painted with coffee and toothbrushes: Kurdish refugees enter the Archibald prize
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When Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar received his confirmation of receipt from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Kurdish refugee knew he could finally start calling himself an artist. Entering his self-portrait into th...
‘Surprised and delighted’: poetry dominates Stella prize shortlist after change in rules
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Poetry is already dominating Australia’s Stella prize in its first year of being eligible, with three collections among the six shortlisted books up for the $50,000 literary award for women and non-binary writers. Aan ...
Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners
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Pulitzer prizewinning Margo Jefferson, playwright Winsome Pinnock and acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga are among this year’s recipients of the $165,000 (£ 120,000) Windham-Campbell-pryse. The award, which is one ...
Praatperde: Rogue Bear can put trainer in clover with Lincoln prize
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William Haggas’s Mujtaba, the likely favourite for Saturday’s Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster, is a lightly-raced four-year-old with the potential to be a Group-class performer before too long, which is very much the pr...
Mooi lewe
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Mooi lewe, Mooi lewe, Mooi lewe. Mooi lewe, Deana Lawson se uitvoerig gebou...
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín wins Rathbones Folio prize for The Magician
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Irish novelist Colm Tóibín has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for The Magician, a fictionalised biography of the writer Thomas Mann. It follows the life of the German Nobel winner, whose works include Death in ...
‘It is unbelievable’: Francis Kéré becomes first black architect to win the Pritzker prize
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Few architects have experienced such a meteoric rise, against such odds, as Francis Kéré. Born in a remote village in Burkina Faso without running water or electricity, he began his career by building a mud-brick scho...