Romeo Dallaire, Miriam Toews among Gov. Gen. literary award winners
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OTTAWA (CP) - Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general who commanded UN peacekeepers during the horrors in Rwanda in the early 1990s, won a Governor General's literary award Tuesday for his account of the experience, entitled Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.
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For only the ninth time in the 103-year history of the Nobel Prize, the award for literature has gone to a woman. Elfriede Jelinek was commended for her frequent critiques of consumerism and the subjugation of women.
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Movies about violence in Rwanda and North Ireland, vampires in Montreal and a DJ in Spain were among the prize winners yesterday at the close of the 29th Toronto International Film Festival.
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Authors are in an annual competition for the eyes of the busy executive.
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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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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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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.
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Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:
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Andrea Levy is named Whitbread best novel author, while Susan Fletcher wins best first novel.
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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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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--AUSTIN -- Gov.
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By Sandy Cullen, The Wisconsin State Journal  Jan.
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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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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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New York-based writer Lily Tuck last night won the 2004 National Book Award for her historical novel of Latin America, &#39;&#39;The News from Paraguay,&quot; in a New York ceremony.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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A review of the Jonathan Saunders, Tuleh, Preen Ohne Titel, Diane Von Furstenberg and Rodnik Fall 2008 collections.