Awards and prizes
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Tony awards: New York braced for razzle-dazzle at Sunday ceremony
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The Observer Ethical Awards 2012 – video (4min 35sec)
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Cannes 2012: Who will win the Palme d'Or? - video (9min 26sec)
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21 Jun 2012: Also lauded at the annual PPA UK magazine industry awards were free weekly Sport, Will Self, CBeebies and T3. By Jason Deans -
21 Jun 2012:
Olympic stadium, Belfast suburban home and Kevin McCloud design in competition for 2012 top architectural award
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20 Jun 2012:
Charlotte Higgins: RAMM was not the obvious choice for museum of the year, but its sense of enchantment won over this sceptical judge
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19 Jun 2012: The recently revamped collection, with displays ranging from art to natural history, is named museum of the year
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19 Jun 2012:
Chris Ofili has spent two years creating sets and costumes for an epic ballet inspired by Titian masterpieces. What did he learn? In a rare interview, the artist talks to Judith Mackrell
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19 Jun 2012:
The Irish writer's novel On Canaan's Side has won the 2012 award for historical fiction set at least 60 years in the past, writes Alison Flood
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17 Jun 2012: Violent images won the votes at this year's awards – but they also raise some ethical questions, writes Roland Elliott Brown
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15 Jun 2012: Patrick Ness: I am tired of hearing lazy, politically expedient lies about the country's most interesting people
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14 Jun 2012:
Winner of children's books' highest honour uses acceptance speech to lambast education policy and negativity to teenagers
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14 Jun 2012:
As their book wins the Carnegie and the Kate Greenaway medals, writer Patrick Ness and illustrator Jim Kay explain how they worked together, without ever meeting, to unleash a monster hit
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Gallery (5 pictures),
14 Jun 2012:
A Monster Calls, written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, is the first book in the history of the prestigious Carnegie and Greenaway medals to win both awards. Patrick Ness also becomes only the second author to win the Carnegie award in consecutive years. Discover the book through Kay's illustrations
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13 Jun 2012:
British author wins one of the world's richest literary prizes for his novel Even the Dogs, about an alcoholic who dies at Christmas
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12 Jun 2012:
Entries are invited for this year's Joan Wakelin bursary, offering photographers £2,000 and the chance to see their work in the Guardian
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Audio slideshow,
12 Jun 2012:
Neil Hall was awarded the 2011 Joan Wakelin Bursary. He chose to travel to the Atacama desert in Chile, said to be the driest place on Earth, to document the process of harvesting coastal fog in large nets to provide water in the area
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11 Jun 2012:
Broadway's big night was beamed live to a huge audience at New York's favourite intersection. So who was down there – and why?
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