Novelist Lily Tuck Wins Nat'l Book Award
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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.
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Madeleine L'Engle, author of "A Wrinkle in Time" and other tales woven with themes of science, religion, and love and read by millions of children and adults, has died in Connecticut. She was 88.
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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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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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Novelists Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers were among the finalists Thursday night for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.
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(London) For the first time a gay novel has won the prestigious Booker Prize. Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the prize Tuesday night in London for the critically acclaimed &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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A leading Shakespeare scholar, five New York-based fiction writers and the United States government, creator of the acclaimed "The 9-11 Commission Report," were among the finalists Wednesday for the National Book Awards.
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An academic's study of human genetic mutation has been named winner of the Guardian First Book Award.
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The novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; written by Alan Hollinghurst, has won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award. The book tells a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London,.
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A Baltimore librarian's classroom project is now part of publishing history. "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village," first conceived a decade ago by Laura Amy Schlitz, is this year's winner of the John Newbery Medal for best children's book.
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Arts & entertainment: Meg Rosoff's uncompromising novel about a 15-year-old's identity crisis, Just in Case, has won the 70th Carnegie Medal for children's fiction.
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Mary Gordon, author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, has won the third annual Story Prize for short fiction. Gordon will receive $20,000 for "The Stories of Mary Gordon," prize organizers announced Wednesday.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award on Thursday for his novel, "Out Stealing Horses," which charts how a child's death and a family breakdown end a teenager's innocence and haunt him into old age.
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Judy Blume, a beloved children's book writer known for such candid tales as "Deenie" and "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," has been named this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for contributions to American letters.
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The word âscrotumâ is on the first page of âThe Higher Power of Lucky,â which won the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in childrenâs literature.
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is won by journalist Iain Hollingshead for his first novel, Twenty Something.
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Singer Lily Allen is selected to help judge the winner of next year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.