The Guardian Education Centre has been awarded with a World Young Reader Prize, hosted by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
The more contemporary Deutsche Börse prize, hosted by the Photographers' Gallery, went – to a collective sigh of relief – to Jim Goldberg for Open See, an ongoing project where Polaroids, text and film combine to tell the stories of Europe's migrant dispossessed: an epic and groundbreaking body of work.
V&A, London SW7 from 26 October until 19 January 2014 Turner prize Derry hosts the world's most sensational art prize.
London triumphed over other cities that sought the prize of hosting the Olympics, including Paris, although, as I note in my latest column, that contest was only part of a complex tapestry of differences and rivalries between the cross-channel neighbors.
Femi's projects will include heading a panel of judges in a new competition, the Young People's Poetry prize, co-hosting the Young People's PoetryLab, and showcasing the best new written and spoken word poetry at the Young People's Poetry Salon at the end of his tenure.
As a consolation prize, Japan hosts a facility looking into ancillary aspects of fusion power.
That system, which tolerates corruption and violence, has just received the endorsement of FIFA, which has awarded Russia the prize of hosting the 2018 football World Cup.
Unsurprisingly, Florida takes the prize for hosting the year's worst midterm election, a nasty and expensive gubernatorial race between two very tan guys that no one likes: Republican incumbent Rick Scott, who looks like Bat Boy from Weekly World News, and Charlie Crist, a former governor who used to be a Republican but turned into a Democrat when he decided he wanted his old job back.
The prize, as the host (and former winner) Alan Zweibel described it, was a cool five thousand dollars and and the seat of honor at the annual gala held in December in Columbus, Ohio ("Thurber!" Zweibel cried, "You think he could have been born somewhere else?").
