Author Adichie wins Orange Prize
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is named the winner of the Orange Prize for fiction.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie faces, and vividly describes, a defining history of her native Nigeria in her new novel, ÂHalf of a Yellow Sun,Â without having experienced it.
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Romantic drama Atonement leads the field at this year's Orange Bafta film awards, with 14 nominations.
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Artist Tomma Abts becomes the first woman painter to win the Turner Prize in its 22-year history.
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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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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for aiding democracy and seeking to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.- The Turner Prize 2004 has been awarded to Jeremy Deller, it was announced at Tate Britain this evening. The Â£25,000 prize, sponsored for the first time in a three-year partnership
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist Mossaad Mohamed Ali won the Olof Palme Prize on Tuesday for their work to protect human rights, peace and security.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901...
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Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."
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Celebrity activist Bianca Jagger, along with two Indian religious scholars, an Argentinian scientist and a Russian human rights group, won the 2004 Right Livelihood Awards, known as the âalternative Nobels.
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Austrian writer and poet Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy announced.
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The talented actress wins a National Award.
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Tomma Abts becomes the first woman painter to win the controversial Â£25,000 Turner Prize.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."   The decision to award the prize to a woman, and a poet, was the first since 1996, when Wislawa Szymborska of Poland won. Since the prize first was handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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"The vast majority of the money we've seen has been for Adichie. Punters reckon it's in the bag"  Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the Orange Prize, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by women. via Scotsman.com