Author Lee to receive US honour
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Author Harper Lee is to be awarded with America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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New Zealand's Lloyd Jones won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Mister Pip," a novel about a teacher who uses literature to help children endure chaos on a war-torn Pacific island.
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Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's biggest film stars, will receive France's highest civilian honor later this year.
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Yiyun Li wins the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award for her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
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Stan Lee beat Sam Farlow, 4 and 3, to win the U.S.G.A. Senior Amateur in Andover, Kan., five days after his 55th birthday, to become the tournamentâs youngest champion. Lee, of Heber Springs, Ark., surpassed the previous record of 55 years 3 months 18 days, set by Bill Bosshard in 1991.
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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been awarded a prestigious international award for literature, beating authors such as Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood, organisers said Tuesday.
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Joan Didion, the author and essayist best known for her memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking," will receive an honorary National Book Award medal this fall for "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters."
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The memoirs of former British prime  minister Tony Blair will be published in Britain and the United  States by Random House, the world's biggest book publisher said  on Thursday.
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Moviegoers in director Ang Lee&#39;s native  Taiwan gave a thumbs-up to his prize-winning &quot;Lust, Caution,&quot;  appearing unfazed by the controversy surrounding it or the  steamy sex scenes.
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The comprehensive and chilling account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by the US government&#39;s 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of America&#39;s top literary awards on Wednesday.
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Jon Scieszka, the author of witty and subversive childrenâs favorites, is to be named the countryâs first national ambassador for young peopleâs literature.
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Comic-book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday said it will appeal a court decision giving a share of its film and television profits to former editor Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man and a host of other popular Marvel superheroes.
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Comic-book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday said it plans to appeal a court decision giving a share of its film and television profits to former editor Stan Lee, who created Spider-Man and a host of other popular Marvel characters.
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Plans for a new national book award were announced Wednesday, with winners to be chosen by the general public voting online and in bookstores.
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A 79-year-old prominent Chinese AIDS activist is to fly to the United States as early as Sunday to receive a human rights award after she was freed from house arrest thanks to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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A British soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan will be the first to be posthumously awarded the nation's highest military honour since the Falklands War, reports said.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.