New award for unknown novelists draws critics
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A new literary prize was launched on   Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished   U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry   fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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E.L. Doctorow and Stephen King are up  against former presidential candidate Al Gore and a man who  made a fortune writing about his dog for The Quills, a book  prize that aims to bring some Oscar-style glitz to publishing.
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When Uzodinma Iweala's debut novel, "Beasts of No Nation," was published in 2005, book critics jostled for room at the literary altar to offer praise.
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Three fiction writers and three poets were among the 10 authors named winners of the Whiting Writers' Award, given annually to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise."
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When a character who is talked about but never seen is the most interesting figure in a drama, is that a problem? It is for Chad Beckimâs new play.
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HUANGHUACHENG, China  - Authors generally welcome  publicity, but the Chinese winner of a non-government PEN award  has never given an interview. That may be because her book  taking a hard look at a past purge of intellectuals is banned.
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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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FOR award-nominated authors, anonymity sometimes pays. Patricia Shaw, a little-known author in Australia, is a household name in Germany where her novels about places like Kalgoorlie and the 19th century ...
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear ...
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Arts & entertainment: We asked 50 celebrated writers to nominate their favourite forgotten literary treasures.
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear favorite in the prediction derby.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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A Nobel winning novelist is among the alleged hit list of targets singled out for speaking about Turkey's treatment of its minorities
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Adaptation of Ian McEwan novel appears to be film to beat at next month's awards
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Violence, sexuality and gender politics dominate the controversial writing of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The 2004 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating that women writers, long overlooked by the Swedish Academy which each year awards the prize, could be well-placed to take home the honours.
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Joyce Carol Oates led a field of National Book Critics Circle finalists announced Saturday, with nominations in both fiction and autobiography categories.