Comedienne wins prestigious literary award for WWII novel
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Alison Louise Kennedy was awarded one of Britain's most prestigious literary awards on Tuesday for "Day", a novel about a World War II veteran coming to terms with his past.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal "the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."   The decision to award the prize to a woman - and a poet - was the first since 1996, when Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won. Since the prize was first handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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Jordan Harrisonâs brash play turns fragments from the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker who made movies for Hitler, into a story that is funny and thought provoking.
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STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER 7: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, regarded as controversial and abrasive for her attacks on the Austrian establishment was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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Scottish author and stand up comic AL Kennedy wins the Â£25,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her novel Day.
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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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Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Line of Beauty," a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, on Tuesday won Britain's most prestigious literary award.
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The 88-year-old novelist gets a second chance at an acceptance speech.
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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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Elfriede Jelinek, known best for her autobiographical novel turned movie, The Piano Teacher, won the Nobel Prize for Literature this Thursday for her in-depth plays and novels covering subjects on violence on women, sexuality and European politics.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play, T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Germany's "The Lives of Others," a searing look at totalitarian powers once wielded by East German secret police, the Stasi, won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday.
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Hollywood actress Kate Winslet helped one of her friends to win a radio competition by calling up the station and offering her pants.
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Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her &quot;musical flow of voices and counter
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Barbra Streisand performed her first-ever concert in France this week &#151; and was rewarded with a medal of the Legion of Honor.
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The novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; written by Alan Hollinghurst, has won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award. The book tells a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London,.
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Playwright Neil Simon, author of  Broadway fare ranging from "Barefoot in the Park" to "Brighton  Beach Memoirs," will receive this year's Kennedy Center Mark  Twain Prize as a uniquely American humorist.