Author Lee to receive US honour
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Author Harper Lee is to be awarded with America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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A high-profile AIDS campaigner being held under house arrest in China has said the disease remained &quot;a tragedy for the Chinese people&quot; after the authorities confirmed she would be freed to receive an award in the United States.
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American author Bill Bryson, best known for his witty travel writing, is awarded an honorary OBE.
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Imperial Life In The Emerald City, on life on the US base in Iraq, wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
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International Booker judges offer support to author Salman Rushdie as they honour this year's winner.
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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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"Free Food for Millionaires" (Warner Books, Hachette Book Group USA, 552 pages, $24.99) &#151; by Min Jin Lee: Casey Han has studied her way to what should be a clear path to success.
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Julia  Roberts  likely  to recieve  honour  at  'People's  Choice Awards'
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A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog is to honor a Chinese reporter who spent years behind bars after exposing a fraudulent irrigation project, the group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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The inventor of the world wide web receives one of Britain's most prestigious honours, the Order of Merit.
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A theme park with a statue and memorial hall will be built at Bruce Lee's southern Chinese ancestral home of Shunde, the president of his fan club said Monday.
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Plans for a new national book award were announced Wednesday, with winners to be chosen by the general public voting online and in bookstores.
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A 79-year-old prominent Chinese AIDS activist is to fly to the United States as early as Sunday to receive a human rights award after she was freed from house arrest thanks to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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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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Australia pace bowler Brett Lee is given until the last minute to prove his fitness for the World Cup.
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China has allowed a high-profile AIDS campaigner under house arrest to travel to the United States to receive an award following Chinese President Hu Jintao's intervention, US Senator Hillary Clinton said.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.