Chinese architect Wang Shu won the prize last year - the first Chinese citizen to do so.
At least one American has won a prize each year since 1935 (excluding the years 1940 through 1942, when no prizes were given out).
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Schwab won't sell you the Grand Prix Fund, whose stinky performance won our Booby Prize this year (see p. 246).
The writer, who won the Booker Prize last year, also received the Costa Book of the Year for the novel in January.
Reporters for the Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a series of articles critical of the NYPD's surveillance program.
The missing link between EADS, which is better known for making planes, helicopters and aerospace systems, and Carpentier--who won a Lasker Prize last year for his work on prosthetic heart valves--is largely due to the late Jean-Luc Lagardere.
The best introduction to Volker Braun, an eastern German poet who won the Buchner prize earlier this year, and whose richest poetry is filled with rage, grief and a determined hope in the face of history in the making.
Last year's prize was won by Australian scrum-half George Gregan.
When Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek won last year's Nobel Prize for literature, it took Katherine Arens by surprise.
"The Help" won the guild's cast prize last year, while Oscar voters named "The Artist" as best picture.
Last year's General Prize was won by Philip Ball for his book Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another.
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First staged in 1921, O'Neill's play about a former prostitute reuniting with her sailor father won the Pulitzer Prize for drama the following year.
Newcastle-based fiddler Tom McConville won the musician of the year prize.
The quartet Alt-J, whose "An Awesome Wave" won last year's Mercury Prize as Britain's best album, did much with little on stage as odd two-part vocal harmonies, a gently picked electric guitar, lush synth lines and syncopated percussion coalesced into a distinctive blend that united folk, prog rock, electronica, show tunes and hip-hop.
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To his surprise he won first prize in the section for 55-year-olds and older.
He won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize last year, and has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Republican hearts soared when East Timor dissidents won this year's Nobel Peace prize.
Northern Ireland international Davis has turned in a number of impressive displays in midfield and is the boomakers' favourite to land the prize, won by Celtic's Scott Brown last year.
She has previously won the Artist of the Year video prize in 2010, was shortlisted in last year's awards and has exhibited her work in Wales, London and Athens and will take part in the Mannheim Film Festival in Germany in September.
Enter Argentine millionaire, Eduardo Costantini of Costa Films, the company behind 2007 Berlinale winner "Elite Troop, " and Hengameh Panahi of Paris-based distributor Celluloid Dreams which represents films like Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet, " which won the Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival this year.
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The performance won the Danish star the best actor prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Last year, she won a Nobel Peace Prize and a second term as the country's president.
This year, it won its first Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, solidifying its place in an evolving news landscape.
Seamer Katherine Brunt won the Women's Cricketer of the Year prize and Chris Edwards claimed the disability award.
The Cuban author, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, won this year's award and received the prize from the King and Queen of Spain.
Also last year, Assange won the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, and a Norwegian parliamentarian nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In April this year, he won the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, which is awarded to scientists who are distinguished for the highest quality of biomedical research in Europe.
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 and authored last year's "Thinking Fast and Slow, " has explored how our conscious thought processes are susceptible to being disrupted by irrational, subconscious influences.
It won the Grand Jury documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
The author won the Booker Prize in 2012 and the Costa Book of the year in 2013.
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