Still, there's one composer who may win the prize for operas based on wide-ranging sources.
That approach could be bad news for one of this year's favourites to win the prize.
At the other end of the scale, the Nordics undoubtedly win the prize for cleanliness.
Mantel's win also makes her the first person in Man Booker history to win the prize for a direct sequel.
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The Black Mirror writer beat competition from Stephen Fry, Graham Norton and Harry Hill to win the prize.
The first team to score their century of genomes at the new standards, price and speed will win the prize.
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Mantel is the third author to win the prize twice, alongside South-African-born J.
By the end of November 2010 they had sketched together a novel plan to win the prize and submitted it to organizers.
Jan and Nikolaas remain the only brothers to both win the prize.
If you tell me in advance the color of the ball that you will pull out of the urn, you will win the prize.
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As The Daily Beast points out, you are more likely (actually, much, much more likely) to have identical quadruplets than win the prize.
The three laureates were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, the 2004 Peace laureate, who died last September.
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Thayil is the first Indian to win the prize, awarded annually to a work of fiction "inspired by the South Asian region, people, culture and diaspora".
They were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who died last month, was named as the laureate in 2004.
It was a contest that required all the skills learned over 50 years in Thailand's treacherous business environment, of patience and ruthless determination to win the prize.
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Ms Enright, the fourth Irish writer to win the prize, is a 45-year-old Dubliner who has written three previous novels, short stories and a work of non-fiction.
The five-piece saw off competition from 40 other bands and artists to win the prize at the Live and Unsigned Final at the O2 Arena in London.
This gentler Conservatism (and some reckless spending) helped Mr Major win the prize for which the party had sacrificed his predecessor: an unexpected victory in the general election of 1992.
McAlary would win the Pulitzer Prize the next year but would die of cancer a few months later at age 41.
Tipped as a potential Nobel prize winner for many years, Transtroemer is the eighth European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 10 years.
The spot was was the first car ad to ever win the top prize, the Grand Prix, at Cannes.
The test, currently being developed in Lima, Peru, has beaten 1, 200 other entries to win the top prize at the Medical Futures Innovation Awards 2005.
For example, Karol Wojtyla, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan did not win the peace prize for winning the Cold War (and, consequently, also keeping Europe pretty darn peaceful), but they did award the prize to Mikhail Gorbachev for losing the Cold War.
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The current top five in the FedEx Cup standings, Woods, world No. 1 Rory McIroy, Phil Mickelson, Nick Watney and Brandt Snedeker, will all win the top prize with victory at the East Lake Golf Club -- regardless of how their rivals fare.
Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, has been called the Lady Gaga of architecture, a wild woman who makes wild things.
To win the big prize, folks had to correctly match the numbers on their ticket to the five white balls, plus the red Powerball number, selected randomly at the drawing.
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"Most of the time, the things that win the Nobel Prize are esoteric, " said Marcelle Cedars at the University of California, San Francisco, who is incoming president of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
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Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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