New award for unknown novelists draws critics
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A new literary prize was launched on   Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished   U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry   fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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The 2004 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating that women writers, long overlooked by the Swedish Academy which each year awards the prize, could be well-placed to take home the honours.
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The Turner Prize, the United Kingdom's prestigious modern art award, has always been controversial for unexpected winners.
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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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For only the ninth time in the 103-year history of the Nobel Prize, the award for literature has gone to a woman. Elfriede Jelinek was commended for her frequent critiques of consumerism and the subjugation of women.
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NEW YORK -- Readers are eager to learn more about Austriaâs Elfriede Jelinek, who was virtually unknown in the United States before the announcement that she had received the Nobel Prize for literature.
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The judges of America's National Book  Awards are under fire for having turned their fiction category  into a "Municipal Book Award" by picking as finalists five  obscure women writers living in Manhattan.
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Three fiction writers and three poets were among the 10 authors named winners of the Whiting Writers' Award, given annually to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise."
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear ...
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The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has said, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating over a slew of names for this year's winner including Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Eliot Weinberger, a previous finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, set off a stir by saying that one of this year's nominees, Bruce Bawer, had engaged in âracism as criticism.â
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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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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.
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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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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain, was named novel of the year in the Whitbread Book Awards.
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FOR award-nominated authors, anonymity sometimes pays. Patricia Shaw, a little-known author in Australia, is a household name in Germany where her novels about places like Kalgoorlie and the 19th century ...