This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

There is no prize awarded for mathematics, but see Abel Prize.

The formulation for the literary prize being given for a work " in an ideal direction " ( in Swedish ), is cryptic and has caused much confusion.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

Boxing ( pugilism, prize fighting, the sweet science or in Greek pygmachia ) is a martial art and combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, reflexes, and endurance by throwing punches at an opponent with the goal of a knockout with gloved hands.

In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

An example for look-ahead solvers is march_dl, which won a prize at the 2007 SAT competition.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

The revised bet is still open, the prize being " clothing to cover the winner's nakedness ".

The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

The prize, administered by the Dylan Thomas Centre, is awarded at the annual Swansea Bay Film Festival.

With a cash prize of three million euros it is the most highly endowed German cultural award.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist ( after Kenneth Arrow ) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, particularly since his lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classical modelization.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.

In contrast, the Deutscher Spiele Preis (" German game prize ") is often awarded to games that are more complex and strategic, such as Puerto Rico.

When Mankind was given the prize of Eden, Absalom led his armies against Heaven and Hell in an attempt to steal it back.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

Thomson was given the 1906 Nobel prize for physics for this work.

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism ( or gentle satire ), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in " science education " to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair.

Recognizing the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world's culture, the prize will be given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins.

Couples who have matching cards may be given a small prize.

The prizes include but are not limited to any given championship belt ( the traditional prize ), a document granting the winner the right to a future title shot, or any document that matters to the wrestlers involved in the match.

The award is given annually to one " outstanding young computer professional " and is accompanied by a $ 35, 000 prize.

The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ) to " an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community ".

Up to three winners are selected every quarter, each given a prize of $ 500.

The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding short stories.

The Pulitzer board has the authority to overrule the jury's choice, however, as happened in 1986 when the jury chose the CIVIL warS to receive the prize, but due to the board's opposition no award was given.

A prize is usually given to the winner.

If a player did not win anything in the main game, $ 500 was given to them as a consolation prize.

In addition, players only played for half the money ; $ 500 was won for each of the first two games, with $ 1, 000 for the third and $ 2, 000 for all subsequent games and $ 250 was given as a consolation prize for failing to win a game.

The final season saw Hollywood Squares return to the best two-of-three format that had last been seen on the NBC network daytime series ; each game was worth $ 1, 000, the first to win two advanced to the bonus round, and players were no longer given cash as a consolation prize for failing to win a game.

Besides the prize for the fastest boat, an environmental prize is awarded to the crew that collects the most rubbish along the way, an originality prize is given to the most creative crew, and a drunkenness prize to the most inebriated crew.

His observation of the models executed by different sculptors of eminence, which were sent to be fired at an adjoining pottery, determined the direction of his genius ; he imitated them with so much success that in 1758 a small figure of Peace sent by him to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts received a prize, and the highest premiums given by that society were adjudged to him nine times between the years 1763 and 1776.

In 1954 he was given the Venice Biennale print making prize, in 1958 the Guggenheim International Award, and in 1980 he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts from King Juan Carlos of Spain.

* 1993-Aschehougprisen ( the primary literature prize awarded annually by the publisher Aschehoug )

Today, the city annually awards the Ludwig Beck prize for civil courage in his honor.

The prize is then awarded at formal ceremonies held annually in Stockholm City Hall on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

The prize recognizes outstanding contributors to planetary science, and is awarded annually to scientists whose lifetime achievements have most advanced our understanding of planetary systems.

One prize is awarded annually for outstanding contributions to the visual or media arts in a volunteer or professional capacity.

She died in 1926 ; in her will she established a fund for a Georges Bizet prize, to be awarded annually to a composer under 40 who had " produced a remarkable work within the previous five years ".

The AITO Dahl-Nygaard prize is awarded annually to two individuals that have made significant technical contributions to the field of Object-Orientation.

An independent foundation annually awards the prize.

The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and is presented annually in early December.

The Flannery O ' Connor Award for Short Fiction, named in honor of O ' Connor by the University of Georgia Press, is a prize given annually to an outstanding collection of short stories.

It annually hosts the NHRA O ' Reilly Fall Nationals each September, when hundreds of professional and amateur drag racers compete for over $ 2 million in prize money.

A memorial prize honouring him, called the Deutscher Memorial Prize, is awarded annually to a book " which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition ".

The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.

In White's honor, an anonymous donor later gave money endowing a prize for the best senior essay in American, European, or Third World history to be awarded in his name annually .< ref >

A single prize is awarded annually.

The prize has been awarded annually since 1985.

In the United States, spelling bees are annually held from local levels up to the level of the Scripps National Spelling Bee which awards a cash prize to the winner.

" Nonetheless, in 1969 the Modern Language Association established a prize named after Lowell, awarded annually for " an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography.

" The Archibald Prize is awarded annually and, the prize is A $ 75, 000.

Australia is third, after the U. S. and Japan for the amount of prize money that is distributed annually.

This prize, named after the two creators of object technology, is awarded annually to a senior and a junior researchers who have made significant technical contributions to the field of Object Orientation.

The Bequerel prize for “ outstanding merit in photovoltaics ” is awarded annually at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition ( EU PVSEC ).

Their Sir George Staunton prize is awarded annually.