21.   Novelist Martin Wasler, in a November acceptance speech for a prestigious literary prize, complained that media images of the Holocaust are designed to perpetuate German guilt.

22.   Outspoken, brash Pelevin is a winner of the prestigious Russian Booker prize, and Sorokin is famous for his modernist works.

23.   Saramago is the fourth consecutive European to win the prestigious prize.

24.   The gilded ornaments seem too shiny after a renovation that won the prestigious regional Monument prize.

25.   The prestigious annual prizes were first awarded nine years ago.

26.   The prestigious prize went to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad.

27.   The prestigious Booker prize honors the best novel written in English in Britain or by a member of the British Commonwealth.

28.   The Swedish Academy surprised, delighted and annoyed the literary world when it picked the scathing and hilarious Italian playwright Dario Fo for the prestigious prize.

29.   U.S. Congressman Pete Stark of California nominated Wu, now a U.S. citizen, for the prestigious prize.

30.   Two British mathematicians from Cambridge University and two teaching in the United States were named Tuesday as winners of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize for mathematicians.