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Rowling, Monkeys win top awards
30/01/2008 11:20 - (SA)
London - Author JK Rowling won the
award for outstanding achievement in the arts from the South
Bank Show on Tuesday in recognition of the Harry Potter series,
which ended last year with the seventh and final instalment.
The 42-year-old joins previous winners including actress
Helen Mirren, playwright Harold Pinter and rock band The Who.
Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys, nominated in a record
seven categories by NME music magazine this week, won the pop
award for their second album Favourite Worst Nightmare.
They beat Radiohead, whose In Rainbows album hit the
headlines last year when it was released online on a
"pay-what-you-want" basis and still made number one in Britain
and the United States when the CD hit the shelves.
Shane Meadows' social drama film This is England won the
movie category, triumphing over Control, the critically
acclaimed biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and
Atonement, the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Ian McEwan's
novel.
Mohsin Hamid won the literature prize for The Reluctant
Fundamentalist, the Booker-nominated story of a high-flying New
York businessman who is treated with suspicion and hostility by
Americans after the attacks of September 11 2001.
The award winners were:
- Film: This Is England
- Comedy: Gavin and Stacey (BBC 3)
- TV Drama: The Mark of Cain (Channel 4)
- Theatre: Saint Joan (National Theatre)
- Pop: Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
- Literature: Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
- Classical Music: Traced Overhead: The Musical World of
Thomas Ades (Barbican)
- Visual Arts: Andy Goldsworthy (Yorkshire Sculpture Park)
- Opera: The Turn of The Screw (English National Opera)
- Dance: Morphoses (The Wheeldon Company at Sadler's
Wells)
- Arts Council England - decibel Award: Daljit Nagra (Look
We Have Coming To Dover!)
- The Times Breakthrough Award: Jennifer Pike
- Outstanding Achievement Award: JK Rowling
- Reuters
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