AND THE WINNERS ARE ...

Munich 2. 10. 2002 (PROTEXT/ots) - Cross-reference: pictureis available at:http://www.presseportal.de/story.htx?nr=385341&action=bigpic&att=17040&attname=B 013434L.JPG&dlwin=1

This year's prestigious CORINE will be awarded to eight well-known authors at a major TV gala hosted by Désirée Nosbusch atthe Munich Cuvilliés Theatre on November 6th, 2002.

Brazilian writer Paul Coelho will receive the Best FictionCORINE for his bestseller "O Alquimista" (Published by Diogenes,Zurich/ Switzerland). UN Special Envoy Waris Dirie will receivethe Best Non-fiction CORINE for her second novel, "Desert Dawn"(Blanvalet, Munich/ Germany). The Best Illustrated Non-fictionCORINE goes to French nature documentary filmmaker Jacques Perrin("Le Peuple Migrateur", Gerstenberg, Hildesheim/ Germany), whilethe late Astrid Lindgren will be awarded a posthumous BestChildren's and Adolescents' Literature CORINE for her life'swork (Oetinger, Hamburg/ Germany). There will also be threespecial sponsors' awards: Bonn-based social scientist Prof.Meinhard Miegel will receive the HypoVereinsbank Best EconomicsBook CORINE (awarded in association with the Financial TimesGermany) for "Die deformierte Gesellschaft" (Propylaeen, Hamburg& Munich/ Germany), bestselling author Barbara Wood will receivethe Weltbild Readers' Award for her novel "Sacred Ground"(Krueger, Frankfurt am Main, Germany), and Sven Regener willreceive the Rolf Heyne Best Debut Novel Award for "Herr Lehmann"(Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main/ Germany). The Bavarian StatePremier's Honorary Award Dr. Edmund Stoiber will be given toSiegfried Lenz for his life's work (Hoffman und Campe, Hamburg/Germany).

The CORINE award was created by the Association of BavarianPublishers and Booksellers to honour outstanding literaryachievement and great success with the reading public.

The ceremony will be broadcasted nationwide in Germany byBavarian Television at 8:15pm on Saturday, November 9th, 2002(It will be repeated on 3Sat at 11:25am on November 10th and1:45am on November 15th, 2002).

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