Israeli writer wins Spanish prize
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Israeli intellectual Amos Oz was awarded the annual Prince of Asturias prize for literature Wednesday in recognition of his works denouncing extremism and advocating Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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Alberto Iglesias, who composed the soundtracks for Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her" and "All About My Mother," has won Spain's 2007 National Film Award, the Culture Ministry said Monday.
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Israeli novelist Amos Oz, 65, has won Germany's Welt Literature Prize, the jury announced Friday.
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Israel, which has sent athletes to the Olympics since 1952, won its first gold medal Wednesday when Gal Fridman captured the men&amp;apos;s mistral sailing event.
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The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Elfriede Jelinek &quot;for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society&#39;s clichÃ©s and their subjugating power
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Shimon Peres, the former prime minister, Nobel laureate, and perennial loser of elections, handily won Israel's presidency Wednesday in his second bid for what will likely be his last official position in public life.
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Biologists Peter Lawrence and Gines Morata won Spain's prestigious science award Wednesday for their work showing that fruit flies and humans have much genetic material in common.
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The Swedish Academy announced yesterday that it has awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature to novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek.
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Prize-winning Spanish writer  Camilo Jose Cela informed for General Franco's regime, a historian says.
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Scientists and economists from the United States, Israel and Norway received their Nobel prizes on Friday at a ceremony marked by the conspicuous absence of literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek of Austria.
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A windsurfer whose first name means "wave" in Hebrew gave Israel its first Olympic gold medal ever Wednesday, taking a plunge in the Saronic Gulf to celebrate.
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Two Iranian teachers were jointly awarded the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures' first prize, held in Barcelona, Spain, in May, it was reported in Tehran on Thursday.
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER 7: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, regarded as controversial and abrasive for her attacks on the Austrian establishment was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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Lucette Lagnado, a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir, âThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Familyâs Exodus From Old Cairo to the New Worldâ (HarperCollins/Ecco). Ms. Lagnado was chosen by the Jewish Book Council for âher demonstration of a fresh vision and evidence of future potential to further contribute to the Jewish literary community.â ... Tom Sleigh of Brooklyn, a teacher in the creative writing program at Hunter College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection âSpace Walkâ (Houghton Mifflin). The annual award, established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts and administered by Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., recognizes a poet âwho is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.â.
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Austrian novelist and playwright  Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on  Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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Iraq war film Turtles Can Fly takes the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival.