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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First prize in the competition is a cash award of $100. Runner-ups get one prize of $25 in books and three prizes of $10 in books in order of finish...
Anne McCormick's sharp reporting and coolheaded analysis of the news have won her a wide audience, including many an admiring and envious member of her own profession. This week her work also won her the Overseas Press Club's award for the best interpretive foreign correspondence of 1947. When she returns to the U.S. this week, she will add the award (a sheepskin citation and a gold watch) to an assortment of trophies that includes the first major Pulitzer Prize (1937) ever awarded a woman journalist...
...first is a collection of short stories which won the ?500 Somerset Maugham Award in England. Under the terms laid down by Donor Maugham, the British government permits the winner to spend his prize money in foreign travel - and that privilege, in currency-tight England, is a prize in itself. Novelist Evelyn Waugh acidly predicted that "elderly" writers would compete even if it meant "forging of birth certificates, dyeing of whiskers and lifting of faces. To what parodies of experimental styles will we not push our experienced pens...
...Barker (29), the first Maugham Award winner, is no experimental stylist. And even "elderly" Evelyn Waugh (44) might have had a hard time getting the prize away from a book of short stories as original and good as her Innocents...
British Critics V. S. Pritchett and C. Day Lewis made no mistake when they gave Miss Barker the Maugham Award. Nor did the London Daily Mail's Peter Quennell, when he praised her for writing of people "she seems to know and feel for -from the soles of their erring feet to the crowns of their shining heads...