Talking Horses: Royal Ascot prize fund for 2020 slashed by 50%
Total prize money slashed from £7.33m in 2019 to £3.68m for this year’s meeting despite six extra races on the schedule
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Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize 2020 is open for entries
The Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize, the first of its kind, aims to discover and encourage excellent Chinese authors under the age of 45. The 3rd Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize themed “Joining the Ranks of Contemporaries” is open for entries until May 15, 2020. The Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize, co-founded by Swiss luxury watch brand Blancpain and … Read more
This plane takes you to the year 2037
What the year 2037 could look like… World’s top science fiction storytellers imagine a future transformed by exponential technologies. XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competitions, in partnership with ANA, Japan’s 5-star airline, launched Seat 14C, a revolutionary digital anthology that blends original science fiction stories with a writing competition to imagine what the … Read more
Yoko Ono wins Austrian Oskar-Kokoschka-Prize
Yoko Ono wins EUR20,000 Austrian art prize Austrian 2011 Oskar-Kokoschka-Prize went to Japanese avant-garde artist and peace activist Yoko Ono. The 78 old artist has been awarded the 20,000-euro ($26,100) art prize in Austria. Ono, Beatles John Lennon’s widow, is an “outstanding artistic personality,” jury president Gerald Bast said. She is due to pick up … Read more
Never Stop Moving: Win a once-in-a-lifetime journey around the world with Maurice Lacroix and Kuoni
Five global cities, two weeks and one traveller. That’s the once-in-a-lifetime prize being offered by Swiss watch manufacturer Maurice Lacroix and the globally-active travel organisation Kuoni. Under the slogan “Never Stop Moving”, the idea for the competition was created to help launch Maurice Lacroix’s new automatic masterpiece models which are based on the principle of … Read more