Thanks to Koss and Rhinoskin for hooking us up.
Married; lives in London Work Author of three novels and five other books: But Beautiful (Somerset Maugham Prize), Out of Sheer Rage (US National Book Critics Circle award shortlisted), The Missing of the Somme, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do it (WH Smith Prize, best travel book), The Ongoing Moment.
Strange and beautiful, these potential prizes hang from the pressed tin ceiling by a system of buckles and black leather straps.
We don't catch a beautiful sea creature "prized for both its fight and its flavor" because the act makes us feel relaxed or rejuvenated.
Trees soaked in sunlight, a dramatic thunderstorm, a classroom of students in Pakistan and a freediver swimming with moon jellyfish are just a handful of the beautiful images awarded prizes in this year's Outdoor Photographer of the Year Competition.
I'd say that given the alternatives, the American system, though not beautiful, still takes the prize.
The Brits, however, had one consolation - Jasmin Dizdar's Beautiful People won the prize as the best film in the section Un Certain Regard.
Outside of "The Counterfeiters" six years ago, a Holocaust-themed movie hasn't won best foreign-language film — the category in which it's most likely to compete — since "Life Is Beautiful" took home the prize last century.
You might not think there is anything special about that, after all our own culture is saturated with images of beautiful bodies, but the Wodaabe prize male beauty over female beauty, and it is the men who spend hours putting their make up on.
Verrius Flaccus introduced the principle of competition among his pupils and awarded old books, beautiful or rare, as prizes.
