61.   His career as a journalist covering Africa spanned four decades, and his brash lifestyle inspired fictional accounts by South African author Tom Sharpe and British writer David Pownall.

62.   The non-fiction award is sponsored by the computer company NCR Ltd.

63.   Iran responded Tuesday to a European Union appeal on behalf of Salman Rushdie by saying it will not lift its death sentence on the British writer.

64.   Iran said Tuesday it will not lift its death sentence on British writer Salman Rushdie.

65.   Last week, the government said it was barring the British writer, target of an Iranian death threat, from entering the country for a literary award ceremony.

66.   Leigh plays a top Hollywood actress struggling through her current film, and Cumming plays a British writer preparing to direct the movie adaptation of his novel.

67.   Mayor Gabor Demszky made the presentation to the British writer, a native of Bombay, for outstanding achievements.

68.   Narayan, who wrote in English, first became known in the West when his works won the praise of the British writer Graham Greene.

69.   Parliament speaker Ali Akbar Nateq- Nouri said in remarks published Tuesday Iran will not seek to hunt down Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie.

70.   Sir Kingsley Amis, the prolific British writer whose first novel of an angry young man battling society spawned conservative and hostile views of contemporary life, died Sunday.