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Scientists behind giant 'Doomsday' seed vault win World Food Prize

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed samples from nearly every country in the world.

Nature

Activist who led campaign to save Spain’s Mar Menor wins ‘Green Nobel’

Teresa Vicente’s campaign saw nearly 640,000 people back a law granting legal protection to the Mar Menor.

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Author who compared Gaza to Nazi ghettos awarded German literary prize

Masha Gessen made controversial comments in an article published in the New Yorker, writing that Gaza is "like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany."

Art

Turner Prize 2023: Who's competing for Britain's top arts award?

The winner of this year's Turner Prize will be revealed at an award ceremony in Eastbourne's Winter Garden on Tuesday 5 December.

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Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award

Author Salman Rushdie: First, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Now, the first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award.

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Former film director wins France's top literary prize

Jean-Baptiste Andrea joins an illustrious list of Goncourt Prize winners including Michel Houellebecq, Marcel Proust, and Simone de Beauvoir

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Luis Mateo Díez wins Spain's most prestigious literary prize

Luis Mateo Díez has been awarded the 2023 Cervantes prize, Spain’s most prestigious literary award.

Design

See: Shortlist for 2023 Stirling Prize for best UK building

The nominees are chosen as examples of the greatest contributions to architecture in Britain.

Culture news

Salman Rushdie awarded Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Writer Salman Rushdie was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on Monday and will accept the award in Frankfurt in October.

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Celebrated novelist Martin Amis dies aged 73

Amis’ works were rebellious, witty and daring and made him one of the most prominent writers of his generation.

Eco-Innovation

Forget plastic, seaweed could provide all the packaging we need

Notpla’s founders say they were inspired by nature’s elegant shapes and interesting materials.

Culture news

Little Simz wins prestigious Mercury Prize 2022

Little Simz took the top honor at the 2022 Mercury Prize for Album of the Year for her fourth album, "Sometimes I Might Be Introvert."

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Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan to win the English language literary award, following Michael Ondaatje’s victory in 1992 for ‘The English Patient’

Design

Who will win the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize this year?

This year’s shortlist for the UK’s best new building includes a Hackney primary school, a net-zero office development and the replacement of an Oxford college library previously gifted by Samuel Pepys.

Culture news

Women's Prize for Literature Shortlist showcases global talent

Six unique books from writers spread around the world have been nominated for the annual prize celebrating the best of women's fiction in the English language.

Culture news

Brand Taylor wins Story Prize for 'Filthy Animals'

Taylor's debut novel 'Real Life' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize but his win for 'Filthy Animals' is his first publishing award.

Nature

This new award wants to become the ‘Nobel Prize’ for young naturalists

The Iris Project’s creators say that just a small amount of money can make a huge difference to young people fighting to save nature.

Culture news

South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The Promise'

The judges called Galgut's novel a "tour de force."

World News

Pegasus Project consortium wins first Caruana Galizia journalism prize

The consortium of journalists behind the Pegasus Project investigation into malware from Israel-based NSO Group has won the first top European Union journalism prize.

World News

Jailed Belarus opposition leader wins European rights prize

At a ceremony in Strasbourg, France, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe awarded its ninth Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize.