'Bone Collector' author's briard wins
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Jeffrey Deaver stroked the silky ears of his pet briard Chance, smooched his sleepy pooch and gently cuddled him. Could this really be "The Bone Collector" author, the best-selling writer known for gruesome murders, dismembered bodies and brutal torture scenes?
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat became the first winner of The Story Prize, a new annual book award honoring short story collections.
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1. "Judge &amp; Jury" by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Little, Brown)
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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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English and Irish classic winner Ouija Board (GB) more than justified the hype surrounding her presence in the $1-million Breedersâ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), surging past Grade 1 winner Film Maker in the lane to capture the 1 3/8-mile contest at
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"Out Stealing Horses", which had already won the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, as "a poignant and moving tale ... of nostalgia for a simpler way of life."  Norwegian author Per Petterson and his translator Anne Born won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel "Out Stealing Horses". Petterson collected ... via Reuters
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"The vast majority of the money we've seen has been for Adichie. Punters reckon it's in the bag"  Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the Orange Prize, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by women. via Scotsman.com
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Walker Percy wrote about the South better than anyone I've ever read. What I did not know until I moved to New Orleans, though, and bought a house in the Garden District, is how spot on a portrayal of the city and its residents "The Moviegoer" really is. I've always considered it a funny novel, but now I find [...].
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS TULSA, Okla. - R.E. Humbertson, wherever you are, you are the winner of &quot;Miss Belvedere,&quot; the rusty 1957 Plymouth hauled from its leaky vault last week after being buried for a half century.
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Reader Shivasree Bhowmik won a contest and got to shake hands with the Big B.
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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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The word âscrotumâ is on the first page of âThe Higher Power of Lucky,â which won the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in childrenâs literature.
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"Mutants," a non-fiction work that casts a sympathetic eye on genetics and physical deformity, has won the Guardian's First Book award, the first science book to claim the prize.
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LONDON - British writer Alan Hollinghurst was named Tuesday winner of the 2004 Booker Prize, arguably the world&#39;s most prestigious literary award, for his critically acclaimed gay novel The Line of Beauty.