Guardian award highlights good year for first-time writers
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Arts & entertainment: Ten 'ambitious, resonant' titles fight the first round of the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
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Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are among the authors who are shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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A division of Simon &amp; Schuster has agreed to publish the top three winners of the Sobol Award, offering advances of up to $100,000 for a controversial new literary contest for agentless writers that also includes a $100,000 first prize.
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Six emerging authors, whose work includes poetry, short stories and "creative nonfiction," were named this year's winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, given to "women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers."
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Members of Hollywood's union for filmmakers had an interesting range of choices for their top prize this year.
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The new year started smashingly for Glenda Bailey, editor in chief of Harperâs Bazaar: she was named on Queen Elizabethâs New Year Honours List.
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Amir Khan has been named Britain&#39;s Young Boxer of the Year following his heroics at the Athens Olympics. The lightweight silver medallist is the first amateur to win the Boxing Writers Club award since it began in 1951.
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Unbowed by the writers' strike, the season's first big movie awards show puts Hollywood glamour on display
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The scariest creations of young Guardian readers, including one that eats middle-aged men's hair ...
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Two winners of the Forward Prize for Poetry have previous successes in the competition.
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Granta is celebrating its 100th issue - raise a toast to it this new year, if you think of it - and the Guardian has provided a deft thumbnail history of the magazine's bumpy and estimable life and times. There are plenty of nifty anecdotes, many of them about the magazine's former editor, Bill Buford. Here's [...].
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As Hollywood's screenwriters  gathered on Saturday to hear details of a contract to end their  three-month-old strike, they also gave their top film writing  awards to comedy "Juno" and drama "No Country for Old Men."
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As Hollywood's screenwriters gathered on Saturday to hear details of a contract to end their three-month-old strike, they also gave their top film writing awards to comedy "Juno" and drama "No Country for Old Men."
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Science fiction and fantasy fans gather to celebrate their favorite genre and hand out Hugo Awards, which some writers have been able to convert into wider exposure. Mark Baard reports from Boston.
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'Substantial progress in the last year'
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A new literary prize was launched on  Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished  U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry  fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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"Juno" and "No Country for Old Men" won top honors Saturday at the Writers Guild of America Awards.