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It is a short story. I made a goggle search and here is a Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw
It was published in 1902 and has been parodied and adapted many times. I was wrong about the award winning thing but it is popular. I remembered that xxxHolic (anime) has a “monkey’s paw” episode: