Authors picked for Costa Awards
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Novelists William Boyd, Neil Griffiths, Mark Haddon and David Mitchell are nominated for the Costa Book Awards.
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Best-selling author Nora Roberts won book of the year on Monday at the third annual Quill Awards, which were created to bring glamour and red carpet extravagance to the world of publishing.
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A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Some of the most popular names in fiction - Tom Wolfe, Patricia Cornwell, Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Nelson DeMille - have new novels out this fall. But books by Wolfe, DeMille and other brand-name novelists won't be published until after the presidential election when it will be easier to attract media attention.
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Andrea Levy is named Whitbread best novel author for her novel Small Island, about post-war London life.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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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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A small group of authors (including a Nobel Prize winner and a couple of perennial best-seller writers) dare to hit the shelves this month.
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By Sophie Morris  Last week I listened to...   I first heard of Salman Rushdie's knighthood on Radio 4, and in the same bulletin I discovered that Agent Provocateur had also been given an MBE, so it was a funny crossover list of Rushdie to lingerie.
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Franz Ferdinand and Keane are expected to be among the acts shortlisted for Brit Awards on Monday.
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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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Writer David Mitchell is the bookmakers' favourite to win the Booker Prize as the countdown gets under way.
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Sarah Waters has emerged as the bookies' favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel &quot;The Night Watch&quot; after previous front-runner David Mitchell failed to make the shortlist for the award.
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The films have been shortlisted for the prestigious awards.
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LONDON -- The short list for the 2004 Booker Prize was announced yesterday, but two Canadian authors who had been in the running failed to make the latest cut.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback