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A book on Iraq war written by an embedded U.S. reporter, Colby Buzzell, won this year's Lulu Booker Prize, according to results announced Monday.
The book, titled My War: Killing Time In Iraq, was published on the author's blog, www.cbftw.blogspot.com, and as the serialized story continued, the blog's popularity grew.
It was considered an unfiltered record of the war in Iraq and an unofficial expression free of government influence.
Lulu Blooker Prize is a literary award for "Blooks" (books based on blogs), inaugurated in 2006. The contest was set up for bloggers who have turned their episodic journals into books.
It is sponsored by Lulu.com, a print on demand publisher, and the name is a pun on the long-established Man Booker Prize.
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