Veteran rock singer Patti Smith has won a prestigious US book award for her memoir, Just Kids.
The novel is nominated in the Guardian First Book Award, which will be given out on Thursday.
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That's one reason the book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for non-fiction.
His first novel, which has been nominated for a National Book Award, makes local color intimately familiar.
Five times she made the shortlist for the Booker, Britain's most famous book award, but never won.
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Her works include A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The 63-year-old received the National Book Award for non-fiction for her work, which chronicles her youth in 1960s New York.
Muller's "The Hunger Angel" was translated from German by Philip Boehm (BOH'-him) and has been nominated for a Best Translated Book Award.
Mr Almond has twice won the Whitbread Children's Book award and has written novels such as Skellig and My Dad's A Birdman.
Patterson, who was named Children's Choice Book Award Author of the Year in 2010, has sold an estimated 260 million copies of his books worldwide.
In a 2001 interview with the BBC, after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".
This year, the festival will host internationally-renowned authors such as Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Kumonyakaa, British Book Award-winner Hari Kunzru, Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, famed poet Beth Lisick and travel writer Peter Moore.
Vollman, a National Book Award winner.
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Little known to the general public but regarded fondly by critics, Mr. Connell was a National Book award finalist, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist in 2009 for the International Man Booker Award for lifetime achievement.
Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Northern Ireland poet Seamus Heaney has pipped children's hero Harry Potter to win his second Whitbread Book of the Year award.
That came shortly after he read out the name of the wrong winner at the Wales Book of the Year award ceremony.
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The Wales Book of the Year award is administered by Academi with the financial support of the Arts Council of Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh Books Council.
But Steve Coppell's side had referee Uriah Rennie to thank when he chose to book Johnson rather than award a penalty before the break when the midfielder seemed to be caught by Ivar Ingimarsson inside the area.
The Whitbread Book of the Year award was established in 1985 and has been won seven times by a novel, three times by a first novel, four times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry and once by a children's book.
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 book was awarded the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan award for best non-fiction book of 2012 on international affairs.
Are they a published author with a successful or award-winning book(s) in their area of expertise?
But in 2007, when I was 69, the book won the Debut Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association.
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The final cut -- winnowed to 185 images for the show and 75 for the award-winning book -- shows the West's myriad faces thematically grouped into Legends, Encounters, Boundaries and Visions, corralling into categories an epic visual record of almost a century and a half of exploration of the American West with the camera.
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Jules Verne's book was made into an Academy Award-winning movie in 1954 with Kirk Douglas starring as sailor Ned Land and James Mason as Nemo.
His rather presciently subtitled 2008 book Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is an excellent, compelling read.
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