Chicago author wins short story prize
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Author Stuart Dybek, already a winner this week of a MacArthur "genius" grant, is this year's recipient of the $30,000 Rea Award for "originality and influence" on the short story, Rea officials announced Tuesday.
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Novelists Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers were among the finalists Thursday night for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Austria's Elfriede Jelinek won the  Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for her controversial  novels and plays in which she attacks violence against women,  explores sexuality and political extremism in Europe.
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Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska received the prestigious Romulo Gallegos literature prize Tuesday for her novel "El Tren Pasa Primero" ("The Train Passes First").
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Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for "the weak" whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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A goat farmer, a boxing fan and an Iranian-born novelist were among 10 authors receiving Whiting Writers' Awards, prizes worth $50,000 each for "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise."
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NPR.org, October 7, 2004 Â· Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, becoming only the ninth woman to receive the honor.
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LONDON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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Hungarian novelist Peter Esterhazy wins the prestigious peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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New York's Mary Gordon on Wednesday  won the Story Prize, the largest cash prize for U.S. fiction,  for her book "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
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STOCKHOLM: Controversial Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek yesterday won the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize, only the 10th female laureate in its history, but said she could not pick it up due to a &quot;social phobia.
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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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American singer-songwriter Cat Power wins the Shortlist Music Prize for her album The Greatest.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Versatile Scottish writer gains victory at lastÂ· Judges hail postwar novel as a masterpiece
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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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Lucette Lagnado, a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir, âThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Familyâs Exodus From Old Cairo to the New Worldâ (HarperCollins/Ecco). Ms. Lagnado was chosen by the Jewish Book Council for âher demonstration of a fresh vision and evidence of future potential to further contribute to the Jewish literary community.â ... Tom Sleigh of Brooklyn, a teacher in the creative writing program at Hunter College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection âSpace Walkâ (Houghton Mifflin). The annual award, established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts and administered by Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., recognizes a poet âwho is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.â.