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The season of prizes and acceptance speeches stretches endlessly from Booker to BAFTA, the Oscars, the Emmies. If there were any destiny working out some grand plan, Salman Rushdie would have won the W.H. Smith Literary Award. As it is W.H. Smith may be hoping that Rushdie will start a Prize Fund, for Fortitude in the Line of Business; but they may not win it. We may still hope that Lady Ewart‐Biggs will be awarded her husband's Memorial Prize, for Lady in the Lords, or better still the NCR Prize may go to the The Adding Machine (John Calder). Meanwhile there are other prizes to consider: