The education secretary highlighted the influence of ED Hirsch, the US educator and literary critic.
Ms Sage is an influential literary critic who has taught English at British and American universities.
Literary critic and journalist Maya Jaggi, who led the judging panel, said Tan's novel had "stylistic poise and probing intelligence".
Tributes have flooded in for the British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens who has died at the age of 62.
Arnold Rampersad. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Arnold Rampersad for his work as a biographer and literary critic.
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The British literary critic and scholar was joined on the judging panel by authors Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks.
In his latest novel he describes the supposed murder of an eminent literary critic, who happens to be Jewish, by a disgruntled author.
My new friend Charles and I sat down with a New York literary critic, a Barcelona restaurateur, and an English lady who just comes to paint every year.
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Mr Milosz is as much a philosopher as a literary critic, though one with a practical turn of mind, a wry sense of humour and a taste for irreducible particulars.
How far that lightning will strike audiences is going to depend on telling the westernising Ogarev from the slavophile Aksakov, the anarchist Bakunin from the literary critic Belinsky (played with febrile bravura by Will Keen in the plays' outstanding performance).
In suggesting between the lines that Ruskin should be read not as a critic or theoretician but as a creative writer, a literary artist, Mr Hilton makes compelling sense of his idiosyncratic and eclectic oeuvre.
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