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Winnipeg writer Miriam Toews has won the Rogers Writers' Trust prize for fiction for her fifth novel, The Flying Troutmans.
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Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award nearly 30 years ago.
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It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex.
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Distinguished French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio is awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Poet Mick Imlah wins the £10,000 Forward Prize for his first collection in 20 years, The Lost Leader.
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French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has won the 2008 Nobel prize for literature, the prize committee said
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France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy" and focused on the environment, especially the desert.
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STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globetrotting novelist hailed as a child of all continents, won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.
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The academy called Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy.”
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France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy" and focused on the environment, especially the desert.
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French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy, in announcing the award today, called Le Clezio an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
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French novelist Le Clezio wins Nobel Prize
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"The author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy..."
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French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature for his distinguished works, including novels "Desert" and "The Deposition".
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Oct 9 - French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio wins the 2008 Nobel prize for literature.
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French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature for his poetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy."
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Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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French-born author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature today in Sweden. The Nobel Prize committee described the 68-year-old as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and...
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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East....
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The Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize on Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has been associated over decades with peace efforts and quiet, cautious diplomacy.
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Much-criticised Dundee-based Alliance Trust was yesterday added to the “buy” lists of two influential analysts as they backed its cautious approach and the strategy of new chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox.
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Former president of Finland Martti Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for a career of diplomatic work that has helped resolve violent crises on three continents over the past 20 years.
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Finland's former president recognized for efforts from Africa and Asia to Europe and Middle East.
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Finnish ex-President Martti Ahtisaari wins this year's Nobel Peace Prize for three decades of mediation around the world.
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Oct 10 - The former President of Finland Martti Ahtissari has won the Nobel Peace Prize for a long career of peace mediation work.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a decades-long career of peacemaking around the world from Namibia to Kosovo.
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Martti Ahtisaari has quietly worked to resolve conflicts in Iraq, Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Namibia. "He never gives up," the head of the Nobel Prize committee says. Calling him an "outstanding international mediator," the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for his efforts to resolve international conflicts across the globe, from Northern Ireland and Namibia to Kosovo, Indonesia and Iraq.
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Phil Brown, boss of newly-promoted Hull City, is named Premier League manager of the month for September.
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