Horse novel bags literary prize
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Norwegian author Per Petterson beats Salman Rushdie to win the Impac prize with his novel Out Stealing Horses.
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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 winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
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A goat farmer, a boxing fan and an Iranian-born novelist were among 10 authors receiving Whiting Writers' Awards, prizes worth $50,000 each for "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise."
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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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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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New York-based writer Lily Tuck last night won the 2004 National Book Award for her historical novel of Latin America, &#39;&#39;The News from Paraguay,&quot; in a New York ceremony.
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Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.
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A story in celebration of the breed, which won 'Best in Show' Tuesday at Westminster.
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Two aspiring romance novelists, one a 28-year-old doctorate student, the other a 56-year-old horse farmer, will have books published next year by Simon & Schuster after winning the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition.
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On October 25th, 1962, author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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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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One of the world's most lauded - and most divisive - literary grandees is awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
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New York's Mary Gordon on Wednesday won the Story Prize, the largest cash prize for U.S. fiction, for her book "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
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Austria&#39;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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More than 140 books were unveiled on  Monday as candidates for one of the world's richest literary  awards.
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Planet Out - SUMMARY: Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty" has won the Man Booker Prize. It's the first time the award has been given to a novel dealing predominantly with gay issues.