Judges award Â£10,000 poetry prize
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Two winners of the Forward Prize for Poetry have previous successes in the competition.
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Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.
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Rebecca Gilman, Heather Raffo, Joanna McClelland Glass, Patricia Wettig and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti are among the twelve playwrights who are finalists for the 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
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The Poetry Foundation plans a series of projects to make use of an enormous donation it received two years ago.
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Lloyd Jones's novel Mister Pips wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize, which recognises authors from ex-British colonies.
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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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Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy is the favourite to win the Whitbread Prize with her novel Small Island.
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Long-standing favorite Ian McEwan faced a strong challenge from little-known New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones on Thursday, as judges announced the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Jonny Hurst, Britain's soccer chant laureate, does not have as high a profile as the nation's poet laureate, but their responsibilities are vaguely similar.
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Austrian writer and poet Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy announced.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst poses with his book, The Line of Beauty, winner of The 2004 Booker Prizer Literary Prize. Photo: AFP. British author Alan Hollinghurst today won the Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s
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At a Seamus Heaney reading, the listeners hear poetry that's not confined to the rhyme and meter of a specific poem.
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A division of Simon &amp; Schuster has agreed to publish the top three winners of the Sobol Award, a new literary contest that offers a $100,000 first prize, but also has been criticized for charging entry fees and requiring that it serve as the winners' agent.
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An image of England footballer Wayne Rooney is shortlisted for the Â£10,000 Comme Ca Art Prize.
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A collection of watercolours by JMW Turner fetch Â£10.6m at an auction in London.
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Arts & entertainment: Ten 'ambitious, resonant' titles fight the first round of the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award.