Canada-set thriller wins Costa prize
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A Canada-set thriller written by an agoraphobic British novelist who had never visited the country was named winner Wednesday of the lucrative Costa Book of the Year Award.
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A movie about the Omagh bomb has scooped a prize at a major Canadian film festival. Pete Travisâs Omagh, which deals with the Real IRA atrocity that killed
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"The Aviator" swooped to land the Best  Picture prize at Saturday's BAFTA awards but the Hollywood  blockbuster had to share the limelight with "Vera Drake," a  low-budget British drama about a backstreet abortionist.
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, remains top of the US and Canada box office.
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Thriller No Country For Old Men picks up two more prizes as the awards season enters its final week.
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The end of the summer sees an interesting mix of movies. You have the action flicks that are maybe good enough to win an award, like Collateral.
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Revenge thriller Dead Man's Shoes scoops top prize at the British Film Festival in Dinard, France.
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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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The winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
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TORONTO, Sept. 1 -- When the radio crackled with news that two California murder suspects were racing toward the U.S. border in January, Canadian border guards quickly  cleared passenger cars from their posts and then fled.
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"Eastern Promises," a Russian mob thriller directed by Canadian cult legend David Cronenberg, won the Toronto International Film Festival's top prize on Saturday, positioning itself as an early Oscar favorite.
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Scottish author and stand up comic AL Kennedy wins the Â£25,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her novel Day.
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Five winners of Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, have been chosen from 553 entries to compete for the 2007 Costa Book of the Year Award.
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Comment is free: Brian Morton: In winning the Costa prize AL Kennedy has shown the power of learning to be versatile
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LONDON -- The short list for the 2004 Booker Prize was announced yesterday, but two Canadian authors who had been in the running failed to make the latest cut.
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Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Line of Beauty," a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, on Tuesday won Britain's most prestigious literary award.
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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.