Canada's Leonard Cohen wins Spanish literary prize

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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (L) performs at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California April 17, 2009.

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MADRID | Wed Jun 1, 2011 11:55am EDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Canada's Leonard Cohen won Spain's top award for authors who do not write in Spanish for his decades of exploring great human issues in song and verse.

The jury of the Principe de Asturias Foundation said the 76-year-old singer-songwriter, poet and novelist was one of the most influential writers of modern times.

He won "for a literary work which has influenced three generations around the world by creating a sentimental imagery in which poetry and music are melded into an unchanging worth," the jury citation read.

Cohen beat a field of 32 from countries including Argentina, France, Austria, Mexico and Britain. Past winners include German Nobel Laureate Guenther Grass and U.S. playwright Arthur Miller.

The Asturias Foundation awards eight prizes every year for fields ranging from science to the arts. Winners are due to collect 50,000 euros ($71,870) each at the awards ceremony in October, and a statue by catalan artist Joan Miro.

(Reporting by Raquel Castillo; writing by Martin Roberts)

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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (L) performs at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California April 17, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni

MADRID | Wed Jun 1, 2011 11:55am EDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Canada's Leonard Cohen won Spain's top award for authors who do not write in Spanish for his decades of exploring great human issues in song and verse.

The jury of the Principe de Asturias Foundation said the 76-year-old singer-songwriter, poet and novelist was one of the most influential writers of modern times.

He won "for a literary work which has influenced three generations around the world by creating a sentimental imagery in which poetry and music are melded into an unchanging worth," the jury citation read.

Cohen beat a field of 32 from countries including Argentina, France, Austria, Mexico and Britain. Past winners include German Nobel Laureate Guenther Grass and U.S. playwright Arthur Miller.

The Asturias Foundation awards eight prizes every year for fields ranging from science to the arts. Winners are due to collect 50,000 euros ($71,870) each at the awards ceremony in October, and a statue by catalan artist Joan Miro.

(Reporting by Raquel Castillo; writing by Martin Roberts)

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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (L) performs at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California April 17, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni

MADRID | Wed Jun 1, 2011 11:55am EDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Canada's Leonard Cohen won Spain's top award for authors who do not write in Spanish for his decades of exploring great human issues in song and verse.

The jury of the Principe de Asturias Foundation said the 76-year-old singer-songwriter, poet and novelist was one of the most influential writers of modern times.

He won "for a literary work which has influenced three generations around the world by creating a sentimental imagery in which poetry and music are melded into an unchanging worth," the jury citation read.

Cohen beat a field of 32 from countries including Argentina, France, Austria, Mexico and Britain. Past winners include German Nobel Laureate Guenther Grass and U.S. playwright Arthur Miller.

The Asturias Foundation awards eight prizes every year for fields ranging from science to the arts. Winners are due to collect 50,000 euros ($71,870) each at the awards ceremony in October, and a statue by catalan artist Joan Miro.

(Reporting by Raquel Castillo; writing by Martin Roberts)

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Three debut novelists contest female Orange prize

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LONDON | Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:15pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Three first-time novelists and three veterans have been chosen to contest this year's Orange Prize for Fiction, which honors women writers.

First-time novelists Serbian/American Tea Obreht ("The Tiger's Wife"), Canadian Kathleen Winter ("Annabel") and Briton Emma Henderson ("Grace Williams Says it Loud") will be in the running for the 30,000 pound ($49,100) prize to be awarded on June 8, organizers said on Tuesday.

The more experienced members of the short-list are American Nicole Krauss with her third novel "Great House," British/Sierra Leonean novelist Aminatta Foma with her second novel "The Memory of Love", and veteran Irish writer Emma Donoghue on her seventh novel "Room."

"The number of first-time novelists is an indicator of the rude health of women's writing," said prize panel chair Bettany Hughes. "The verve and scope of storylines pays compliment to the female imagination."

Hughes said the judging meeting "fizzed" for hours with conversations about the originality, excellence and readability of the books.

"Even though the stories in our final choices range from kidnapping to colonialism, from the persistence of love to Balkan folk-memory, from hermaphroditism to abuse in care, the books are written with such a skillful lightness of touch, humor, sympathy and passion, they all make for an exhilarating and uplifting read," she said.

The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman.

(Reporting by Paul Casciato; Editing by Steve Addison)

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LONDON | Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:15pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Three first-time novelists and three veterans have been chosen to contest this year's Orange Prize for Fiction, which honors women writers.

First-time novelists Serbian/American Tea Obreht ("The Tiger's Wife"), Canadian Kathleen Winter ("Annabel") and Briton Emma Henderson ("Grace Williams Says it Loud") will be in the running for the 30,000 pound ($49,100) prize to be awarded on June 8, organizers said on Tuesday.

The more experienced members of the short-list are American Nicole Krauss with her third novel "Great House," British/Sierra Leonean novelist Aminatta Foma with her second novel "The Memory of Love", and veteran Irish writer Emma Donoghue on her seventh novel "Room."

"The number of first-time novelists is an indicator of the rude health of women's writing," said prize panel chair Bettany Hughes. "The verve and scope of storylines pays compliment to the female imagination."

Hughes said the judging meeting "fizzed" for hours with conversations about the originality, excellence and readability of the books.

"Even though the stories in our final choices range from kidnapping to colonialism, from the persistence of love to Balkan folk-memory, from hermaphroditism to abuse in care, the books are written with such a skillful lightness of touch, humor, sympathy and passion, they all make for an exhilarating and uplifting read," she said.

The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman.

(Reporting by Paul Casciato; Editing by Steve Addison)

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