Debut novelist wins Costa award
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A London author wins a prize for her debut novel, which is set in Canada - a country she has never visited.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Versatile Scottish writer gains victory at lastÂ· Judges hail postwar novel as a masterpiece
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The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.
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Alison Louise Kennedy was awarded one of Britain's most prestigious literary awards on Tuesday for "Day", a novel about a World War II veteran coming to terms with his past.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel, The Line of Beauty, a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London, won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award - the Booker Prize.
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The Sound of Music actress Connie Fisher receives a best newcomer award from the London Critics' Circle.
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Comedian AL Kennedy is favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year Award, formerly the Whitbread Prize.
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s The Line of Beauty has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the first time the prestigious award has been given to a book dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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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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A new and lucrative literary prize has just been started, with some unusual credentials for the winner: The book must be unpublished and the author must not have an agent.
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Arts & entertainment: Miranda July adds the world's richest short story prize to her collection of film festival accolades by winning the 2007 Frank O'Connor award.
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CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
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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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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi  Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the  Orange Prize, a major literary award for fiction in English  written by women.