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 The Portuguese writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and became well-known to the readers for his books of subversive perspectives on historic events, in which he emphasizes the human factor rather than the officially sanctioned story. Jose Saramago, 84, has recently released his newest book, entitled “Death with...
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A member of the Nobel Academy said on Friday that the Swedish Academy is worried that somebody might have found out earlier than the award night that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was going to be given the Nobel Prize for Literature. Still, Horace Engdahl, the academy's permanent secretary, told a local paper that he will look at the...
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 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, 68, a French author, won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The Nobel Swedish Academy said that Le Clezio is a writer “of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." His travels helped him imagine a poetic world...
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 Lynne Spears, mother of the two troubled sisters Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears, releases her book “Through the Storm” on September 16 and it will be published by Thomas Nelson, a leading Christian publisher. Lynne Spears says that her daughter Britney has overcome all her problems and nightmares of the past few years and she...
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 Steven Jan Vander Ark has been written for seven years a guidebook to J. K. Rowling’s best-selling series of “Harry Potter.” But a federal judge disproved his work, saying it was too close to the books he admired. Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of Federal Court in Manhattan wrote that “Plaintiffs have shown that the lexicon copies a...
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 “Vampire” fans are anxious to read the new
story about the love between a teenage girl and a 100-year-old vampire.
“Breaking Down,” the final book of the “Twilight”
series, written by Stephenie Meyer, one of the “most promising new authors of
2005,” as she was named in a Publishers Weekly review after the publication of
its first...
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 Salman Rushdie, the Indian-British novelist and essayist who won the Booker Prize for his second novel “Midnight’s Children,” won a special award marking the 40’th anniversary of his novel. He also won the 25th anniversary Booker prize in 1993. The novel is an example of Rushdie’s magical realism style. The dominant theme of his novels...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said on Wednesday that
they would remove the comic book “Memin Pinguin” from its shelves after
receiving complaints the popular Mexican character was a racist depiction of
blacks, Reuters reported.
The main character, Meimin Pinguin who originally
was created by Alberto Cabrera in 1943 and later drawn by...
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 Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing
a memoir about his sister. He has signed a deal with publishers Simon and
Scuster and will be working with Wendy Leigh, who wrote biographies of Liza
Minnelli, Grace Kelly and a provocative book about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Living with My Sister Madonna” will tell
the story of a...
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 The California Supreme Court unanimously decided that the prosecutor who helped in the making of “Alpha Dog” may remain on the case which became the subject of the movie. The case involved Jesse James Hollywood, who faces the death penalty for his role in the kidnapping and murder of a 15-year-old boy. Ronald Zonen, a deputy district...
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