Mary Gordon wins short fiction prize
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New York's Mary Gordon on Wednesday  won the Story Prize, the largest cash prize for U.S. fiction,  for her book "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
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A new literary prize was launched on   Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished   U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry   fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist and playwright, has won the Nobel Prize in literature -- the first woman in eight years to be awarded the prize.
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For only the ninth time in the 103-year history of the Nobel Prize, the award for literature has gone to a woman. Elfriede Jelinek was commended for her frequent critiques of consumerism and the subjugation of women.
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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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CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
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New York producer John Clancy received the  first Edinburgh International Festival award on Friday as the  prestigious arts gala extended a friendly hand to the city&#39;s  anarchic Fringe festival.
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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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Six emerging authors, whose work includes poetry, short stories and "creative nonfiction," were named this year's winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, given to "women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers."
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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Arts & entertainment: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's domestic epic of the Biafra war, Half of a Yellow Sun, has won this year's Orange Broadband prize for fiction.
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The Louvre has invited Toni Morrison, the most recent American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, to lead a ÂconversationÂ among the arts around a theme of her choice.
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Andrea Levy is named Whitbread best novel author, while Susan Fletcher wins best first novel.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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Fergus Crane, a "far-flung adventure" story, wins two awards in the Smarties Book Prize for children's literature.
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Elfriede Jelinek, an avant-garde Austrian author and dramatist known for politicized prose that stabs at social convention and sexual oppression, won the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday.