11.   Styron said he was surprised, too, by the omission of White and wished the list had included American writer Eudora Welty.

12.   The illustrious skeptics of further NATO expansion have ranged across the foreign-policy mainstream, and include opinion writers for this newspaper.

13.   The judges confirming the award included the writers Frank Conroy, Jorie Graham and William Gass.

14.   There are many, this writer included, who saw the Vietnam War as a major turning point in the American experience.

15.   They included feminist writers Kate Millett and Gloria Steinem.

16.   This fall, the military hanged nine human rights activists, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.

17.   Yet Shrake has many fans, including the writers who have taken refuge under his expansive wings and then soared into their own successful careers.

18.   A number of artists, including British writer Salman Rushdie, have lived in fear for their lives after their works were labeled blasphemous.

19.   But this year, the organisers decided to also include writers from the Caribbean who are past winners.

20.   Four other government critics, including two writers, have been found dead in the past four weeks.