The Fountainhead, by Russian author and philosopher Ayn Rand, has influenced and inspired millions of people.
Now students around the world are invited to enter an essay writing competition based on the novel.
The competition is part of the annual Ayn Rand essay contests organised by the US-based education organisation The Ayn Rand Institute. Participants are required to write an essay on one of three assigned topics linked to Rand's The Fountainhead (fifth and sixth formers) and Anthem (third and fourth formers).
Born in Russia in 1905, Rand was the founder of objectivism - 'a philosophy for living on the Earth'. She fled to the US in 1925 and worked as a script reader and script writer in Hollywood.
The Fountainhead contest will award one first prize (US$10,000 cash award [HK$78,000]), five second prizes (US$2,000 cash awards), 10 third prizes (US$1,000 cash awards), 35 finalist prizes (US$100 cash awards) and 200 semi-finalist prizes (US$50 cash awards).
For the Anthem contest there will be one first prize (US$2,000 cash award), 10 second prizes (US$500 cash awards), 20 third prizes (US$200 cash awards), 45 finalist prizes (US$50) and 175 semi-finalist prizes (US$30).