Zeta Jones backs literary 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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One of the world&#39;s most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize for fiction, has been won by British writer Alan Hollinghurst for his novel, &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;.
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One of the world's most lauded - and most divisive - literary grandees is awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
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Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for "the weak" whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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A strip club has hit back at Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones - by declaring she should be flattered her image was used for advertising promotion on its website.
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Austria's Elfriede Jelinek won the  Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays  that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality  and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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Long-standing favorite Ian McEwan faced a strong challenge from little-known New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones on Thursday, as judges announced the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal "the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."   The decision to award the prize to a woman - and a poet - was the first since 1996, when Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won. Since the prize was first handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2004 was awarded Thursday to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek &quot;for her musical flow of voices,&quot; the Swedish academy said.
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Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of modern African writing, was awarded the 60,000 pound Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday.
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Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said 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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New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones was the  target of an unprecedented gamble as the shortlist was  announced on Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, one of the  literary world&#39;s most prestigious awards.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s explicitly gay novel &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;, a satire on Britain under Margaret Thatcher, has won the 50,000-pound Booker Prize, the prestigious international literary award.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Tim Robbins will be this year's recipients of the annual Hasty Pudding awards, given by a student drama group at Harvard University.
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. (antiTainment) Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones filed a lawsuit against a Reno strip club for unauthorized use of her image in the club&#39;s online promotions.
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Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."