The first domestic prize of the season is up for grabs, although given the sheer fervour of some supporters you would think they were fighting for life itself.
She is the first female recipient of the prize since Kathleen Jamie in 2004, and the first American woman to receive the honour.
Banville is the first Irish winner of the Booker Prize since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993.
Ms. Huxtable was the first winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, in 1970, and was architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal since 1997.
The three laureates were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, the 2004 Peace laureate, who died last September.
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They were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who died last month, was named as the laureate in 2004.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday marked the playoffs for the World Championships, and teams from all over the world were assembled to compete for a first prize of a million dollars, the largest by far in pro gaming history.
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In 1946 the watch won the equivalent of a timepiece Oscar--first prize in the Geneva Astronomical Observatory Timing contest.
When he had first thought of the prize he had pondered over what to call it.
The roster of recently born awards (see table, next page) expanded last month with the first Prize for Civil Courage, a creation of John Train, a 72-year-old New York investment counsel, and his Northcote Parkinson Fund.
"That Van Cliburn won the first ever Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow in 1958, the middle of the Cold War, is testimony to his prodigious gifts, " he said.
The village was especially proud of the birds because they had taken first prize in last year's international cormorant competition in Japan.
Thayil is the first Indian to win the prize, awarded annually to a work of fiction "inspired by the South Asian region, people, culture and diaspora".
The leader of this "Scotia Nostra" was Douglas Gordon - who was the first of them to win the Turner Prize, in 1996.
The evening ended with the magic of Arab songs sung in Syrian-Armenian, by Lena Chamamyan, first prize winner in 2006 of music on Middle East Radio Monte-Carlo.
This year marks the first time that the shortlist includes two previous winners of the Orange Prize.
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The first winner of a European angel prize sponsored by three European business schools and a number of financial institutions was the German-born Klaus Hommels.
The physics prize went to the first makers of Bose-Einstein condensates.
He won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of 28 for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News that were judged responsible for clearing a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy from McCarthy-era allegations that he was a security risk.
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First of all, we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of this prize for Arab culture.
The film also became the first Bond film to be nominated for the top prize at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards.
Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, has been called the Lady Gaga of architecture, a wild woman who makes wild things.
Previous recipients of the prize, first awarded in 1984, include Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry.
The winner of the annual prize first painted Jeroen when he was seven and has pictured him on 17 occasions.
PySnap was written by 12-year-old Aaron Hill and took first prize in the 13 and under category of the Raspberry Pi summer coding contest.
His prize shot is the first known picture of a juvenile Pel's fishing owl, which he captured in a thick Gabon jungle on a disposable camera.
The Nobel Peace Prize recipient fought apartheid for decades before becoming the first democratically-elected president of South Africa.
The first company to develop an effective vaccine is rewarded with a prize in the form of large scale purchases of its vaccine.
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He was a lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine when he became the first Briton to win a Nobel Prize.
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