Levy takes Whitbread novel prize
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Andrea Levy is named Whitbread best novel author for her novel Small Island, about post-war London life.
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The Swedish Academy announced yesterday that it has awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature to novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek.
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Comedian AL Kennedy is favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year Award, formerly the Whitbread Prize.
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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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A London author wins a prize for her debut novel, which is set in Canada - a country she has never visited.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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Arts & entertainment: Miranda July adds the world's richest short story prize to her collection of film festival accolades by winning the 2007 Frank O'Connor award.
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Comment is free: Robert Peston: The world of the super-rich non-dom is a truly absorbing place. Here, a Â£30k levy is a fleabite
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"The Line of Beauty," Alan Hollinghurst's novel about a young gay man in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980's, won the Man Booker Prize.
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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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The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.
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EVERY October the British publishing world lets its hair down to celebrate the Man Booker Prize, the most popular and best known - if not the richest - literary award in the British Isles.
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Scottish writer and standup comedian A.L. Kennedy has won Britain's Costa Book of the Year Award for her novel about a World War II veteran whose work as an extra on a war film forces him to confront his past.
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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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Author JK Rowling receives an  outstanding achievement prize at the South Bank Show awards.
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Britain said on Wednesday the award of a  state honor to author Salman Rushdie was based on literary  merit and was not meant to offend Muslims.
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Lord Levy, the chief fundraiser for  Prime Minister Tony Blair&#039;s Labour Party, has been arrested by  police probing allegations state awards had been given in  return for cash, according to media reports on Wednesday.