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Hitchens honoured with Orwell memorial
The Telegraph
Christopher Hitchens, the writer and commentator once described as the heir to George Orwell, was given a posthumous honour at this year's Orwell Prize.
Christopher Hitchens, the writer and commentator who died last year, was last night honoured with a Memorial at this year's Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing.
More http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9287302/Christopher-Hitchens-honoured-with-Orwell-memorial.html
VF & CH Win National Magazine Award in “Columns and Commentary”
May 5, 2012Vanity Fair
Fair won a 2012 National Magazine Award at a ceremony held by the American Society of Magazine Editors last night, in recognition of the late author Christopher Hitchens’s brilliant columns and commentary. Hitchens’s three essays—“When the King Saved God,” “Unspoken Truths,” and “From Abbattabad to Worse”—touched on the topics of politics, religion, and dealing with the diminishing effects of chemotherapy.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/05/vanity-fair-christopher-hitchens-win-2012-national-magazine-award
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PEN Festival Panel Gives Hitchens Mixed Grades
May 2, 2012
Arts Beat / New York Times
The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicked off Monday night with a panel discussion about the life and work of Christopher Hitchens. Billed as a “tribute” to the writer, the promotional materials for the event said it would engage with this question, among others: “Did the man and his methods overshadow his ideas?”Read more http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/pen-festival-panel-gives-christopher-hitchens-mixed-grades/
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