Novelist Lily Tuck Wins Nat&#39;l Book Award
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Lily Tuck, this year&#39;s winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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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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The Sept. 11 Commission&#39;s report and five women novelists have been selected as National Book Award finalists, the National Book Foundation said Wednesday.
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Austrian novelist and playwright  Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on  Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is won by journalist Iain Hollingshead for his first novel, Twenty Something.
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A novel set in 19th century Paraguay wins the $10,000 fiction prize at the US National Book Awards.
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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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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s The Line of Beauty has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the first time the prestigious award has been given to a book dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday becoming only the 10th woman to win the prize.
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A historical epic about nineteenth-century Paraguay written by an author who was born in Paris won one of America's top literary prizes on Wednesday at the annual National Book Awards ceremony.
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An Austrian playwright and author has won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for literature. Elfriede Jelinek will go away with more than a million euros in prize money but also the massive kudos of winning a Nobel award
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Â· Northern Lights tops poll of Carnegie winnersÂ· Author says award is most important he has received
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"Out Stealing Horses", which had already won the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, as "a poignant and moving tale ... of nostalgia for a simpler way of life."  Norwegian author Per Petterson and his translator Anne Born won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel "Out Stealing Horses". Petterson collected ... via Reuters
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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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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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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.