Nigeria author wins Booker honour
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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Six authors are shortlisted for the Booker prize, including  favourite David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas.
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Every October the British publishing world celebrates the Man Booker Prize. For many, the main action is in Soho, where publishing houses take over exclusive social clubs.
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British Author David Mitchell was installed as runaway favorite on Thursday to capture the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's top literary awards, for his ambitious, multi-layered novel "Cloud Atlas."
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Literary fans get the chance to air their views on who should win the first Man Booker International Prize.
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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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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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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's most prestigious awards.
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World-famous author Chinua Achebe rejects a national award, criticising the "dangerous" state of affairs in Nigeria.
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One of Africa's most prominent literary icons, Chinua Achebe, has rejected a national honors award from his government in Nigeria in protest at the "dangerous" state of the country, newspapers reported on Sunday.
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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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An academic's study of human genetic mutation has been named winner of the Guardian First Book Award.
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When Uzodinma Iweala's debut novel, "Beasts of No Nation," was published in 2005, book critics jostled for room at the literary altar to offer praise.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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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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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for aiding democracy and seeking to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano wins the inaugural $5m Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.