Former postwoman takes book prize
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Arts & entertainment: Catherine O'Flynn named among winners of 2007 Costa awards for her first novel, What Was Lost
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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
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LONDON -- A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn&#39;t know existed.
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HarperCollins will rush out a book  submitted by former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto  just days before her December 27 assassination, it said on  Monday.
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A 92-year-old woman who spent more than half her life charting Orkney's flora is awarded an honorary degree.
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Comedian Peter Kay's record-breaking autobiography is up for two awards at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
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A new and lucrative literary prize has just been started, with some unusual credentials for the winner: The book must be unpublished and the author must not have an agent.
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Author JK Rowling receives an  outstanding achievement prize at the South Bank Show awards.
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A lost novel by a once-famous Jewish authoress who was murdered in Auschwitz is being hailed as the literary event of the year in France, not least because of the extraordinary and moving story that has finally led to its publication.
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The usual pre-National Book Awards&#39; (NBA) anticipation was heightened by controversy over the fiction nominees (five women authors, all living in New York) and wonder at the nomination of the surprisingly readable 9/11 Commission&#39;s The 9/11 Commission
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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Scottish writer and standup comedian A.L. Kennedy has won Britain's Costa Book of the Year Award for her novel about a World War II veteran whose work as an extra on a war film forces him to confront his past.
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Joan Didion, the author and essayist best known for her memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking," will receive an honorary National Book Award medal this fall for "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters."
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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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Austria's Elfriede Jelinek won the  Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for her controversial  novels and plays in which she attacks violence against women,  explores sexuality and political extremism in Europe.
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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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Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan The online presence of The Bookseller is running its annual poll to determine which of six splendidly-titled tomes should receive the 2007 "Oddest Titles" prize.â¦