Author Lee to receive US honour
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Author Harper Lee is to be given America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog is to honor a Chinese reporter who spent years behind bars after exposing a fraudulent irrigation project, the group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's biggest film stars, will receive France's highest civilian honor later this year.
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Adaptation of Ian McEwan novel appears to be film to beat at next month's awards
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Taiwan was flushed with pride on Sunday  as favorite son and world famous director Ang Lee took Venice  film festival&#39;s top award for his steamy thriller &quot;Lust,  Caution,&quot; just two years after winning with &quot;Brokeback  Mountain.&quot;
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The inventor of the world wide web receives one of Britain's most prestigious honours, the Order of Merit.
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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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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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Spike Lee will pay tribute to black U.S.  soldiers who fought during World War Two with a new film to be  shot in Italy.
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Arts & entertainment: Gifted, beautiful and unpredictable, Lee Miller's is celebrated as one of the finest photographers of the 20th century. But her great talents as a writer are often forgotten, argues Ali Smith.
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HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland  - South Korea's Pak Se-ri officially qualified for induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame after completing her opening round at the LPGA Championship on Thursday.
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Comedian Peter Kay's record-breaking autobiography is up for two awards at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
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Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution leads the nominations for the Chinese language Golden Horse Awards.
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One of the world&#39;s most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize for fiction, has been won by British writer Alan Hollinghurst for his novel, &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;.
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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The memoirs of former British prime minister Tony Blair will be published in Britain and the United States by Random House, the world's biggest book publisher said on Thursday.
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Former UN secretary general to name head of state chosen as inaugural winner of multi-million dollar prize for achievement.