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• Nobel laureatue Pamuk publishes latest novel

  - 2008-08-31

  ISTANBUL AFP — Turkey's first Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk launched his latest novel this weekend in Turkey, "The Museum of Innocence", a love story between a rich man and a poor girl set in Istanbul. The recipient of the Nobel prize for literature in 2006, whose works are translated...

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• US publishers cancel book on Prophet Mohammed's wife

  - 2008-08-18

  NEW YORK AFP — A US publisher has cancelled the publication of a novel about the youngest wife of the Muslim prophet Mohammed amid a growing controversy over the book. "The Jewel of Medina," a debut novel by journalist Sherry Jones about Mohammed's child bride A'isha had been due...

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• Canada's Margaret Atwood wins Spain's top literature prize

  - 2008-06-25

  MADRID AFP — Canadian author Margaret Atwood was on Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for literature as "one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary fiction," the jury announced. "Margaret Atwood offers in her novels a politically committed, critical view of the world and contemporary society,...

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• Author Rushdie receives knighthood

  - 2008-06-25

  LONDON AFP — Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave the author Salman Rushdie the knighthood which caused protests by Muslims around the world when it was announced last year. Rushdie, 61, was knighted for his services to literature. When the knighthood was announced in the queen's birthday honours...

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• Peru author working on novel on Irish patriot Roger Casement

  - 2008-06-17

  MADRID AFP — Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa Tuesday said he is writing a novel on Irish patriot Roger Casement, famed for his reports criticising rights abuses in Congo at the turn of the 20th century. "In his diaries he reported on authentic atrocities, atrocities involving crimes that are...

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• Film to be made of Coelho's 'The Alchemist'

  - 2008-05-19

  CANNES, France AFP — International best-seller "The Alchemist" by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho is to be made into a film, with "The Matrix" star Laurence Fishburne directing. Film mogul Harvey Weinstein on Sunday announced the screen adaptation of the novel, written 20 years ago and translated into 56 languages,...

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• Debut novelists nominated for all-female prize

  - 2008-04-15

  LONDON AFP — Three debut novelists were nominated Tuesday alongside more established names like Rose Tremain for the women-only Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Three Britons, two Canadians and an American were shortlisted for the 30,000-pound (59,000-dollar, 37,000-euro) prize, open to female authors writing in English whose works were...

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• Prize-winning author sheds novel light on historic mystery

  - 2008-04-11

  ADELAIDE, Australia AFP — Australian author Geraldine Brooks admits her latest book, with its drunken priest, gambling rabbi and Muslim librarian, is "rather like the set-up of a very bad joke." But the Pulitzer prize-winning writer has tackled the decidedly unfunny subjects of war, genocide and religious intolerance in...

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• Oscar-winning filmmaker Anthony Minghella dead at 54: agent

  - 2008-03-18

  LONDON AFP — British filmmaker Anthony Minghella, whose 1996 movie "The English Patient" garnered nine Oscars, has died, his agent said Tuesday. The writer and director, whose other box office hits include "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain," was 54, the agent added. Minghella was best known...

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• Manga legend Tezuka's work to go online

  - 2008-03-12

  TOKYO AFP — A Japanese virtual bookstore said Wednesday it would put online the works of "Astroboy" creator Osamu Tezuka, the father of manga comics. Papyless, which sells digital versions of books, said it was teaming up with copyright holder Tezuka Production to upload at least 448 stories from...

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