Nora Roberts takes top prize at NY's Quill 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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The comprehensive and chilling account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by the US government&#39;s 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of America&#39;s top literary awards on Wednesday.
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A new literary prize was launched on   Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished   U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry   fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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Arts & entertainment: Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, to receive America's highest civilian award.
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[Hollywood News]: Los Angeles, Dec 8 : Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts retains her position as the top earning actress, charging $20 million per movie, with Cameron Diaz second and Nicole Kidman third in the ranking of highest paid women in movies.
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US actress Julia Roberts wins the 2007 American Cinematheque career achievement honour, reports say.
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A "luminous" debut novel about a young girl sent to live in rural Wales is up against a biography of tragic Mary Queen of Scots in the competition for one of Britain's top literary awards.
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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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Donald Trump attends the Conde Nast Traveler 17th Annual Readers Choice Awards, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in the new Time Warner Center, in New York in this Thursday, October 7, 2004, file photo.
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&quot;Cloud Atlas&quot; by the British-born, Ireland-based author David Mitchell was the early favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize, a day after the shortlist of six novels was announced.
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Arts & entertainment: Ten 'ambitious, resonant' titles fight the first round of the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
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Dubliner Anne Enright won the Man Booker  Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, on  Tuesday for her bleak Irish family saga "The Gathering."
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International Booker judges offer support to author Salman Rushdie as they honour this year's winner.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Feist wins the US Shortlist Music Prize for her album The Reminder.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won the 2004 Booker Prize for his novel, The Line of Beauty. The prestigious award is for the best novel of the last 12 months by an author from a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
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Alice Munro's collection of short stories, which focus on the lives of women, was awarded the Giller Prize on Thursday, the second time the author has won Canada's most lucrative award for fiction.
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The Swedish Academy announced yesterday that it has awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature to novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek.