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OED 1,000,000 words!

Jun 09 2009: As the one millionth word enters the English lexicon, Simon Winchester explores the joys of our truly global language.

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Marilynne Robinson wins Orange Prize for "Home"

Jun 04 2009: Marilynne Robinson has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for Home.

The Orange Prize is one of the most prestigious of literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the...

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Fantasy writer David Eddings dies

Jun 04 2009: Bestselling fantasy author David Eddings, who wrote The Belgariad and the Malloreon series, has died aged 77.

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Alice Munro wins Man Booker International Prize

May 27 2009: Alice Munro has been announced as the winner of the third Man Booker International Prize.

Worth 60,000 UK pounds (~US $100,000) to the winner, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work...

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The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes

May 22 2009: Kate Sifton, senior vice president of Farrar, Stead & Giroux, offers a lengthy and well considered opinion on the future of the book business in the June issue of The Nation. Those who don't want to read the full 4600 word article may wish to start with January magazine...

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Stieg Larsson's family fight over fortune

May 19 2009: Relatives of Stieg Larsson, the bestselling Swedish novelist, are locked in a bitter dispute over an inheritance worth millions and a laptop computer. The laptop is reported to contain a 200-page manuscript of an unfinished sequel to the bestselling Millennium trilogy.

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Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald dies at 88

May 19 2009: Historian David Herbert Donald has died at 88. Donald, a leading American historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe, died Sunday in Boston.

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Frank McCourt fights cancer

May 19 2009: The USA based Irish Central reports that Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt has cancer and has recently been hospitalized in New York for treatment.

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