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Jan 2002

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2001 is awarded to the British writer, born in Trinidad, V S Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".

Australian-born Peter Carey (born 1943; in 1990 he moved to New York) won the 2001 Booker Prize for Fiction with True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who had earlier won the Prize in 1988 for his epic Victorian love story Oscar and Lucinda, and J M Coetzee (who won it in 1983 and 1999) thus become the only authors to have won the Booker Prize twice.
True History of the Kelly Gang, "the song of Australia", purports to be the confession of the outlaw Ned Kelly. Kelly, one of Australia's folk heroes, was hanged for murder 120 years ago and is seen in his native country as one of the unsuspecting fathers of nationalism.
The judges chose Peter Carey's novel "because it is a magnificent story of the early settler days in Australia, expressed through the unforgettable voice of a vilified man who came to stand for more than he knew".

Amitav Ghosh and Joyce Carol Oates are the winners of the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards. While Ghosh's The Glass Palace (Random House), "a masterful novel of love and war", won the $50,000 Grand Prize for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates's collection of short stories Faithless: Tales of Transgression. (PerfectBound / Harper Collins) won the $10,000 Distinguished eBook Award for Fiction.
The eBook Award is the first award designed to recognize achievements in the emerging eBook industry, and is instituted by The International eBook Award Foundation [IeBAF]

Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming (born 1960) is the winner of the first prize in the 2001 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago and now lives in Nassau, Bahamas.
In the winning story, a young girl struggles to overcome the trauma of an attempted rape on her older sister.
This competition is run by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and is funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. Indians among the other winners were: Usha Rajagopalan (Regional Winner, Asia); Shinie Antony, Sampurna Chatarji, and Jyoti Kanetkar (Highly Commended, Asia).