A popular Japanese television drama featuring a housemaid has won the silver prize in the foreign drama category at a major event in Shanghai showcasing TV productions, Nippon Television Network Corp. said. The drama, "Kaseifu no Mita" ("Mita the Housemaid"), won the Magnolia Award at the Shanghai Television Festival, one of the largest events of its kind in China, according to Nippon Television, which produced the series. full story ![]()

New Yorker Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced,” about a well-off Pakistani-American lawyer whose upper East Side life takes unsettling turns, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama
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Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced," a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party goes out of control, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced," a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party goes out of control, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama....
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The novelist wins this year's Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for his novel Zoo Time.
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Wisconsin native Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced,' a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party goes out of control, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
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Ayad Akhtar, who received the Pulitzer Prize in drama last week, is a man of many talents and daring insights. As an actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright, he challenges Americans to question their assumptions about race and religion. Read full article >>
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“Argo,” the drama about the rescue of U.S. embassy workers from Iran, takes an unusual top prize at Sunday’s Academy Awards
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Japanese architect Toyo Ito, who created London's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, wins this year's prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Ruth Stage, who uses the ancient painting technique egg tempera, wins the £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers prize.
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