Playwright Neil Simon to receive Mark Twain Prize
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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.
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A leading Shakespeare scholar, five New York-based fiction writers and the United States government, creator of the acclaimed "The 9-11 Commission Report," were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards.
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Jon Scieszka, the author of witty and subversive childrenâs favorites, is to be named the countryâs first national ambassador for young peopleâs literature.
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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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By Roger Schlueter, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 18--Q. In watching a biography on Mark Twain, I heard an incident in Samuel Clemens' life that has had a direct effect on all of us today.
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The soprano Dawn Upshaw, the playwright Lynn Nottage, the writer Stuart Dybek and the installation artist Whitfield Lovell are among the 24 recipients of this yearâs $500,000 âgenius awards.â
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By KARL RITTER  STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The big-bang theory of the universe, microcredit and literature exploring Turkey's clash of cultures will be honored as six American scientists, a Bangladeshi economist and a Turkish novelist receive the Nobel Prizes Sunday in Stockholm and Oslo.
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Organizers of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award have named Hugh Grant to the panel of judges for the 2004 prize.
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Bob Dylan, the unofficial poet laureate of the rock 'n' roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare and Willem de Kooning. All were among nominees announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes.
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Poet George Szirtes wins the Â£10,000 TS Eliot Prize for his collection of new poetry, Reel.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon will write "Snow and the Seven," an East-meets-West retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," for Walt Disney Pictures.
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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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Friday's papers focus on the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to a controversial Austrian writer
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he News From Paraguay,&quot; Lily Tuck&#39;s historical epic set in 19th-century South America, won the National Book Award for fiction last night, capping a month in which the publishing world debated
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Michael Longley and broadcaster Tom Paulin are on the shortlist for the Â£10,000 TS Eliot Poetry Prize.
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Playbill - The Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt ends July 2, but the potent questions raised in the drama will linger on a national tour in the coming months.
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Joyce Carol Oates led a field of National Book Critics Circle finalists announced Saturday, with nominations in both fiction and autobiography categories.