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• Peter Pan's London 'home' goes on sale

  - 2008-01-14

  LONDON AFP — The London house where the Peter Pan classic children's novels are believed to have been written is up for sale, an estate agent said Monday. The six-bedroom property opposite Kensington Gardens park in central London has gone on sale for 6.75 million pounds (8.88 million euros,...

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• British author McEwan joint favourite to win Booker Prize

  - 2007-10-16

  LONDON AFP — British author Ian McEwan and his New Zealand counterpart Lloyd Jones are the joint favourites to win the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday, while another shortlisted novel about Muslim experiences in post-9/11 America has also made headlines. McEwan and Jones are among six writers...

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• Potter fans spellbound by Rowling at book signing

  - 2007-07-21

  LONDON AFP — Hundreds of eager fans braved darkness, exhaustion and chilly air to listen to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling autograph and read passages from her latest book. "Probably slim to none, but hey, one's always got hope, right?" said Jess Ciroi, a 20-year-old, who cites Rowling...

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• Nigerian wins fiction prize for women

  - 2007-06-06

  LONDON AFP — Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, open to female authors writing in English from around the world, organisers said Wednesday. A shortlist of writers from countries including Britain, China, India and the United States were battling for the 30,000-pound...

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• 'Lord of the Rings' musical to open in London next June

  - 2006-06-22

  LONDON AFP — A musical version of J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" is to open at London's historic Theatre Royal, Drury Lane next year, replacing the current smash hit "The Producers". The 25 million dollar (13 million pound, 20 million euro) adaptation -- the most expensive...

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• Zadie Smith stunned by Orange Prize for Fiction win

  - 2006-06-07

  LONDON AFP — Writer Zadie Smith said she was "stunned" to have made it third time lucky by winning the coveted Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel "On Beauty". The 30-year-old scooped the 30,000-pound (55,800-dollar, 43,500-euro) award Tuesday evening after her previous books "White Teeth" (2001) and "The...

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• 'The Da Vinci Code' author Brown shocked at plagiarism allegations

  - 2006-03-13

  LONDON AFP — Best-selling author Dan Brown broke his silence when he dismissed as "completely fanciful" claims that he stole ideas for his blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code". Taking the stand at England's High Court in London, Brown was defending his publisher Random House against allegations that his 2003...

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• Alice Thomas Ellis: a waspish wit and Catholic crusader

  - 2005-03-10

  LONDON AFP — Alice Thomas Ellis, the English novellist who has died of cancer at the age of 72, was a prolific writer, an astute editor and a mainstay of the outer fringes of London literary life for more than 30 years. Born Anna Lindholm in Liverpool in 1932,...

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• British author wins Booker prize for gay novel on Thatcherism

  - 2004-10-19

  LONDON AFP — British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel "The Line of Beauty," a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher. Hollinghurst won this year's 50,000-pound (70,000-euro, 90,000-dollar) award for the best novel published in the Commonwealth and...

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