1.   Horton Foote wins the prize for drama, and the fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.

2.   The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.

3.   He is certain that the top fiction prize will elude his independent publishing company and Charles Frazier, a first-time novelist.

4.   -- Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of the fiction prize.

5.   Shields, a Canadian, also won the fiction prize from the National Book Critics Circle for the work, her fifth book.