Novelist Tuck Wins National Book Award
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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.
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Oprah Winfrey changed American novelist  Anita Shreve's life overnight but she refused to let instant  fame cramp her style.  The U.S. talk show host's commercial clout is so great that  Shreve's novel "The Pilot's Wife" sold four million copies  after being picked by Oprah's book club.
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Poet Tom Sleigh's "Space Walk" has been named this year's winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a $100,000 prize given to someone "who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career."
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New York's Mary Gordon on Wednesday won the Story Prize, the largest cash prize for U.S. fiction, for her book "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
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Like others who wanted John Kerry to defeat President Bush, author Lily Tuck was in such despair after Election Day that she wondered if she should remain in the United States. She thought of returning to her native Paris, the bane of Bush supporters, or at least hanging a French flag from the balcony of her apartment overlooking Madison Avenue. Then again, there is no flag to which Tuck would truly pledge allegiance, for she has never felt at home anywhere.
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Oprah Winfrey changed American novelist Anita Shreve's life overnight but she refused to let instant fame cramp her style. The U.S. talk show host's commercial clout is so great that Shreve's novel "The Pilot's Wife" sold four million copies after being picked by Oprah's book club.
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Author Harper Lee is to be awarded with America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY  - Latin American literary giantGabriel Garcia Marquez has unintentionally won the last laughon copyright pirates by changing the ending of his latest book,the Nobel laureate's first novel in 10 years.
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Judy Blume, a beloved children's book writer known for such candid tales as "Deenie" and "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," has been named this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for contributions to American letters.
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"Baldwin's Harlem" (Atria Books, 184 pages, $24), by Herb Boyd: As an adult, James Bladwin Â the novelist, playwright and poet of such works as "Giovanni's Room," "Another Country" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain" Â may have visited Harlem only intermittently, but the uptown Manhattan neighborhood always had a strong hold on him.
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Author Harper Lee is to be given America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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Joan Didion, the author and essayist best known for her memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking," will receive an honorary National Book Award medal this fall for "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters."
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Description: Iris Chang, historian and author of the bestselling nonfiction book The Rape of Nanking, dies in California of apparent suicide at age 36.
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John Updike has won yet another literary award. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is this year's recipient of the Rea Award, a $30,000 honor for making a "significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form."
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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Best-selling author Nora Roberts won  book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards,  which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance  to the world of publishing.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award on Thursday for his novel, "Out Stealing Horses," which charts how a child's death and a family breakdown end a teenager's innocence and haunt him into old age.