Peter Lieberson's `Rilke Songs' honored
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Composer Peter Lieberson's "Rilke Songs," sung by his late wife, internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, is among recordings honored this year by the inaugural WQXR Gramophone American Awards.
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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 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Elfriede Jelinek &quot;for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society&#39;s clichÃ©s and their subjugating power
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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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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.
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Elfriede Jelinek, an avant-garde Austrian author and dramatist known for politicized prose that stabs at social convention and sexual oppression, won the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday.
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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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Austria&#39;s Elfriede Jelinek has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for controversial novels and plays in which she attacks violence against women, explores sexuality and political extremism in Europe.
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Elvis Costello is to compose an opera based on fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen's unrequited love
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Out of the land of Grieg comes Leif Ove Andsnes. His mission: to compete with ringtones, iTunes, and YouTube for short attention spans.
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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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Arts & entertainment: The TS Eliot prize has gone to the 2007 Forward prize winner - the first time the same collection has taken both awards in the same year
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Slam poetry got a fresh twist when three Victorian-era re-enactors read from such poets as William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson in a setting that was fitting for the event &#151; a 19th-century stone mansion.
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Readers are eager to learn more about Austria's Elfriede Jelinek, who was virtually unknown in the United States before the announcement that she had received the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Elfriede Jelinek, known best for her autobiographical novel turned movie, The Piano Teacher, won the Nobel Prize for Literature this Thursday for her in-depth plays and novels covering subjects on violence on women, sexuality and European politics.
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Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet Elfriede Jelinek has won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. Ms. Jelinek is the first woman since 1996 to obtain the coveted prize, worth $1.
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Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December.