Thomas Pynchon up for Bad Sex award
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Will the winner be the unfortunate canine encounter, the tryst in a blacksmith's forge or the girl with the Space Hopper breasts?
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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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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"White on Black," which won Russia's premier literary honor last year, details the Soviet Union's abuse of the handicapped.
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Two new story collections explore young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages.
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Poet Adrienne Rich and two founders of The New York Review of Books have been named recipients of honorary National Book Awards medals, the National Book Foundation announced Wednesday.
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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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Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat became the first winner of The Story Prize, a new annual book award honoring short story collections.
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The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to childrenâs literature was awarded on Monday to âGood Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village,â by Laura Amy Schlitz. The American Library Association announced the prize at its midwinter meeting in Philadelphia. The book, a series of monologues and dialogues about characters in the Middle Ages, is illustrated by Robert Byrd and published by Candlewick Press. Its format is different from the more traditional novels that have characterized past Newbery winners. The winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children was âThe Invention of Hugo Cabret,â by Brian Selznick. That book, published by Scholastic Press, is also different from the more traditional short picture books for young children that win the Caldecott medal. âHugo Cabretâ is a novel told in blocks of text interspersed with 284 pages of black-and-white drawings.
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The Turner Prize, the United Kingdom's prestigious modern art award, has always been controversial for unexpected winners.
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Actress Catherine Zeta Jones supports a literary prize in memory of poet Dylan Thomas. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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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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Norwegian author Per Petterson and his  translator Anne Born won the world&#39;s richest literary prize for  a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel  &quot;Out Stealing Horses.&quot;
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In â7: The Mickey Mantle Novel,â Peter Golenbock has taken a calculated risk: that fans will want to hear fictional, profane, smutty and yet plausible stories about Mantleâs sex life.
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Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, this time the PEN/Faulkner award for "Everyman," his short, bleak novel about illness and mortality.
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BRITISH author Alan Hollinghurst has snared the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel The Line of Beauty,&#39; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.