SHORT TAKES : Prize Awaits Global Solution
Media magnate Ted Turner is offering a $500,000 prize for a novel that promotes solutions to the world’s problems.
The winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award, to be given by Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and its subsidiary, Turner Publishing Inc., also will receive a hardcover publishing contract guaranteeing a minimum printing of 50,000 copies and a $50,000 promotion campaign. It probably will also become a TV movie, Turner said.
“The great minds of today need to focus on the problems of global significance if humanity is to see new tomorrows,” Turner said Monday. “We’re floundering around as a species right now with piecemeal solutions.”
The award is larger than the $463,000 given this year for the Nobel Prize in literature. There aren’t any plans to make it an annual award.
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