Dozens of demonstrators made their way into the building on the north bank of the Thames in the run-up to event which was broadcast on Channel 4. Susan Philipsz won the £25,000 prize for her work Lowlands.
A typical Venezuelan mestizo, of African, indigenous and European descent, he was born in poverty (though not in the "mud hut" of the title of a hagiography) in Barinas, a remote state in the llanos, the tropical lowlands of the Orinoco basin.
The text was hurriedly approved in December by an assembly at which the opposition was not present, but it must still be approved in a separate referendum.The opposition, which has its base in Bolivia's more prosperous, gas-rich eastern lowlands, fears that Mr Morales wants to introduce a Venezuelan-style socialist autocracy.
The country has always been split between a minority of whiter, wealthier Bolivians of European descent, who tend to live in the prosperous tropical lowlands, and the darker, indigenous people concentrated in the impoverished high plains.
Having outwitted the opposition, centred in the eastern lowlands, he easily won a second term in 2009 with 64% of the vote.Yet suddenly little is going right for Mr Morales.
He is fiercely opposed by the governors of the more prosperous eastern lowlands, whose soya farms and natural-gas fields provide much of the country's wealth.
But as exploration pushes deep into the country's eastern lowlands, oil companies face a familiar problem in rural Colombia: security.Emerald Energy, a British subsidiary of China's Sinochem, has endured repeated attacks by the FARC guerrillas on its small Ombú field in Caquetá.
Thugs and politics Impunity rules The ayatollah of the street Correction: Nicaragua Reprints Related items Colombia's army: Under fireOct 26th 2006For people in Sucre, in the cattle-raising tropical lowlands of the Caribbean coast, these revelations do not come as a surprise.
In Puno's lowlands, cocaine production is rising.
EVERY year, massive floods cause misery to millions of people living in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Thailand, Vietnam and elsewhere in the Asian lowlands.
Last month Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, sent troops to the lowlands of Santa Cruz department to crack down on gold mining.
