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  2. List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English - Wikipedia

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    Sahitya Akademi Award for English Award for contributions to English literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First award 1960 Final award 2024 Highlights Total awarded 53 First winner R. K. Narayan Most Recent winner Easterine Kire Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...

  3. Plum Book - Wikipedia

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    Older editions of the Plum Book are held by any federal depository library. [1] The Government Printing Office (now the United States Government Publishing Office) began to make the Plum Book available as an app for the first time in December 2012. [2] The 2020 edition was published on December 1, 2020. [3]

  4. The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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    The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]

  5. Portal:Literature - Wikipedia

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    The study of books and other texts as artifacts or traditions is instead encompassed by textual criticism or the history of the book. "Literature", as an art form, is sometimes used synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography ...

  6. List of English-language books considered the best - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.

  7. Civil service reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    At first it covered very few jobs but there was a ratchet provision whereby outgoing presidents could lock in their own appointees by converting their jobs to civil service. Political reformers, typified by the Mugwumps demanded an end to the spoils system. After a series of party reversals at the presidential level (in 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896 ...

  8. The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English - Wikipedia

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    Many complained of there being only nine books- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759), The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891); Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897), Ulysses by James Joyce (1922), Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938), At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann ...

  9. English studies - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, any given country or region teaching English studies will often emphasize its own local or national English-language literature. English composition, involving both the analysis of the structures of works of literature as well as the application of these structures in one's own writing. English language arts, which is the study of ...