Historical Epic on Paraguay Wins U.S. Literary Award
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A historical epic about nineteenth-century Paraguay written by an author who was born in Paris won one of America's top literary prizes on Wednesday at the annual National Book Awards ceremony.
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Tom Stoppard's epic eight-hour trilogy  "The Coast of Utopia" about 19th century Russian  revolutionaries has won rave U.S. reviews and defied fears that  its subject matter would be too heavy for theater goers.
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A leading Shakespeare scholar, five New York-based fiction writers and the United States government, creator of the acclaimed "The 9-11 Commission Report," were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards.
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Austria&#39;s Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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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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France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, goes to Laurent Gaude for an epic tale set in southern Italy.
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Arts & entertainment: Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, to receive America's highest civilian award.
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OBLIGADO, Paraguay  - Few towns in Paraguay's impoverished countryside have a stoplight, well-paved roads or a library. This remote farming community has all three, and residents cite one reason: soybeans.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina broke apart New Orleans, one of the best-known writers in the U.S. South has ushered the storm into fiction.
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An exhibit featuring a film about US President George W. Bush&#39;s home town in Texas on Monday won the Turner Prize, Britain&#39;s most prestigious art award, pipping a digital recreation of Osama bin Laden&#39;s house.
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The comprehensive and chilling account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by the US government&#39;s 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of America&#39;s top literary awards on Wednesday.
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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been awarded a prestigious international award for literature, beating authors such as Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood, organisers said Tuesday.
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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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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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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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The comprehensive and chilling account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of America's top literary awards on Wednesday.
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Latin American literary giant  Gabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on copyright  pirates by changing the ending of his latest book, the Nobel  laureate's first novel in 10 years.