Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
Last year's Costa Book Prize went to Andrew Miller for his novel, Pure.
Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize.
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One of the writers of US comedy Beavis and Butt-head is among 18 authors shortlisted for this year's Waterstones children's book prize.
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"It's the first major book prize to have no barriers and no borders - it's truly international, " prize founder Andrew Kidd told the BBC.
Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize for Money, Markets and Sovereignty.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power and is also the author of Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy.
That's one reason the book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for non-fiction.
George Armstrong Custer came out in 1984 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize.
The show has a book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright and songs by Phish lead singer Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green.
The witty book took the overall prize, while author and Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson took the younger reader's award for her book Best Friends.
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The year's Aventis Prize for a book aimed at children under 14 went to The Global Garden, by Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels and Corina Fletcher.
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Organizers even offered a prize: A book on personal freedom.
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman chronicled how a cascading series of seemingly minor developments led inexorably to World War I and the worst carnage known to man up to that time.
Writers and artist colonies like Yaddo in upstate New York hope that peaceful natural surroundings and stimulating company will work magic, and they may have: Yaddo alumni have collectively won 61 Pulitzer Prizes, 56 National Book Awards and a Nobel Prize in literature.
British author Aminatta Forna's novel The Memory of Love has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in Sydney.
Dark Lord: Teenage Years by games developer Jamie Thompson won the prize for the funniest book for children aged seven to 14.
The festival this year is particularly heavy on Middle Eastern films, such as "The Patience Stone" from French-Afghan novelist-filmmaker Atiq Rahimi, who won the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary prize, for the book version.
Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question.
His book was also shortlisted for the Dingle Prize, which honours publications about the history of science.
There is also an annual Festival of Ideas in the UK, which awards a prize to the best idea book.
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The book was also awarded the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.
Should he win the Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for which his book has just been shortlisted, the cronyism charges will re-surface.
In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman cites compelling research done in the lab of Dr. Kathleen Vohs at the University of Minnesota on the psychological effects of money on human behavior.
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It is a book-length poem by the Nobel-prize-winning author Czeslaw Milosz, who recently turned 90.
The author won the Booker Prize in 2012 and the Costa Book of the year in 2013.
Her book, which is shortlisted for the Orange Prize, is about friendship and war in the troubled West African state.
The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.
The critic demolished Pulitzer Prize-winner Cunningham's book about a middle-aged gallery owner attracted to his young brother-in-law in a 1, 000-word review in the Observer last January.
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