Sentence examples for largest prizes for from inspiring English sources

The Praemium Imperiale is one of the world's largest prizes for painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater-film.

It was one of the largest prizes for an undiscovered writer -- for her work entitled "Video," about the havoc wrought on a young Indian couple's marriage by the sexually explicit culture of the West.

In its fifth year, the award is gaining recognition for its $100,0000 Irish ($120,000) prize money, the world's largest prize for a single work of fiction.

Her acclaimed book Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory won the 2009 Cundill International Prize in History, the world's largest prize for non-fiction.

Three British scientists have scooped the largest prize for neuroscience in the world, sharing a €1 million award for their work on memory.

The Chinese writer Mo Yan has received the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, which at three hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars is the largest prize for a book written in Mandarin.

Story Hour Carrying $150,000, the International Impac Dublin Literary Award is described as the world's largest prize for a single work of fiction.

Those were just two of the 50-plus entries in this year's Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, an annual competition that awards the world's largest prize for sustainable entrepreneurship.

Three researchers whose discoveries about cellular operations paved the way for a new generation of drugs that treat a variety of illnesses, including cancer and schizophrenia, won the nation's largest prize for medicine and biomedical research yesterday.

The longlist for the Impac, the world's largest prize for a single novel published in English, is nominated by libraries around the world, with Mexico City branch library Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas nominating Vásquez's novel.

Just in time for George Washington's birthday: Edith B. Gelles Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage has been named one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize — the largest prize for a book on early American history, and one of the largest literary prizes of any kind.