Author in line for German award
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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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Vienna, October 8: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek fears that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature will turn her into something she never wanted to be -- a celebrity.
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The US public will decide the winner of a new national book awards this year in an online vote.
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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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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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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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Israeli novelist Amos Oz, 65, has won Germany's Welt Literature Prize, the jury announced Friday.
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Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal &quot;the absurdity of society&#39;s clich Des and their subjugating power.
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The author of the German war novel "Das Boot", Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, has died, his spokeswoman said on Friday. He was 89.
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The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has said, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating over a slew of names for this year's winner including Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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The world's biggest book fair kicks   off this week in Frankfurt and will focus on authors and   culture from India as well as the challenges new media pose for   the industry.
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British novelist Doris Lessing will  receive her Nobel prize for literature on Wednesday, having  been unable to attend the prize ceremony in Sweden last year  due to ill health.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest publishing event, prepared to welcome more than 200 Arab authors as guests of honor on the eve of the 56th annual event.
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Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."
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Wie Publisher Vivendi Universal gestern Abend in einem offiziellen Presserundbrief mitteilt, hat der heiÃ erwartete Action-Blockbuster Half-Life 2 endlich den Goldstatus erreicht.
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A leading German dictionary publisher plans to launch a guide it says will help men translate the subtext of female conversation.