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Judith Kerr, beloved author of "The Tiger Who Came to Tea", dies aged 95

May 23 2019: Judith Kerr, the author and illustrator whose debut picture book The Tiger Who Came to Tea introduced generations of pre-school children to the joyful chaos of uncontrolled appetites, died at home yesterday at the age of 95 after a short illness. Kerr, whose first ...

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Binyavanga Wainaina, barrier-shattering presence in African literature, dies at 48

May 23 2019: Binyavanga Wainaina, a prizewinning Kenyan writer whose humorous, incisive books and essays explored themes of postcolonialism, gender and sexual identity, including his own decision to come out as a gay man in a country that long demonized homosexuality, died May 21 in...

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Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International prize for "Celestial Bodies"

May 22 2019: Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize for her novel Celestial Bodies.

Alharthi, the £50,000 award’s first winner to write in Arabic, shares the prize equally with her translator, ...

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Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction to be awarded to Richard Ford

May 20 2019: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Richard Ford, author of “Independence Day” – the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – will receive the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction during the 2019 Library of ...

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Can NYC's Shakespeare & Co. Create a National Indie Chain?

May 20 2019: In 2015, with the purchase of the Shakespeare & Co. name in the U.S. and the successful acquisition of a lease to the store’s former 5,000 sq. ft. location on Lexington Ave. on New York’s Upper East side, Dane Neller, cofounder and CEO of On Demand Books (the maker of ...

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Author Sherrilyn Kenyon, who claims poisoning by husband, jailed after lashing out in court

May 20 2019: The bestselling author who accused her husband of poisoning her was jailed for direct contempt after a court hearing last month.

Kenyon was accused of calling one of her husband's attorneys a "f---ing liar" as she abruptly left the courtroom during the hearing on ...

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Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction, dies at 103

May 17 2019: Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Navy drama The Caine Mutiny, whose sweeping novels about World War II, the Holocaust and the creation of Israel made him one of the most popular writers of his generation and helped revitalize the genre of historical...

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Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own

May 17 2019: In an opinion piece in the New York Times, novelist Elena Ferrante states that power is "a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over.

".... In the beginning I didn’t know that storytelling was a kind of power. I became ...

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