Arts Desk
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature a month ago, has won Czechoslovakia’s prestigious Franz Kafka Prize. An international jury chose Ms. Jelinek in May from 23 names. She is the fourth recipient of the award and its $10,000 cash prize. Past recipients are Philip Roth, Ivan Klima of the Czech Republic, and Peter Nadas of Hungary. …The shortlist of 10 for the Poetry Book Society’s L10,000 ($18,550) T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry has been announced. It includes the 2002 winner, Northern Irish poet Michael Longley. The full list is: Colette Bryce “The Full Indian Rope Trick”; Kathryn Gray, “The Never Never” (Seren Books); Kathleen Jamie, “The Tree House”; Michael Longley, “Snow Water” (Wake Forest University Press); Ruth Padel, “The Soho Leopard”; Tom Paulin, “The Road to Inver”; Peter Porter, “Afterburner”; Michael Symmons Roberts, “Corpus”; George Szirtes “Reel”; and John Hartley Williams “Blues.” Previous winners include Don Paterson, Ted Hughes, and Anne Carson. T.S. Eliot’s widow Valerie will present the award in London on January 17.
