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Keira Knightley to star in adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro book

Mar 03 2009: Keira Knightley is to star in the film adaptation of "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro. More about the film at Variety (linked below). More about the book here.

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Amazon changes tack on text-to-speach feature

Mar 02 2009: In a surprising about-face, Amazon has decided to give publishers and authors the choice over whether or not to enable the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech function - the feature that has drawn criticism from the Authors Guild, which maintained that it was an unauthorized use ...

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Authors to get $60-$300 of Google's $125 million settlement

Feb 27 2009: Google has agreed to pay $125 million to settle copyright charges over its scanning of 7 million books. But yesterday, the Authors Guild informed authors that only $45 million would be used for author and publisher payments which amounts to about $60 to $300 per title.

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Philip Jose Farmer dies aged 91

Feb 25 2009: Science fiction pioneer Philip Jose Farmer died peacefully in his sleep today aged 91. His long career included his Riverworld series and six Hugo Award nominations.

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Films based on books sweep Oscars

Feb 23 2009: Slumdog Millionaire swept last night's Oscars winning eight: best picture, directing, adapted screenplay, original score, film editing, original song, sound mixing and cinematography. The film is based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup which is also available ...

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Christopher Nolan dies aged 43

Feb 22 2009: Tributes have been paid to the author Christopher Nolan, who died on February 20 at the age of 43. Nolan, who had cerebral palsy, won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1988 for his autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock.

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Best Translated Book Awards announced

Feb 20 2009: Tranquility by Attila Bartis, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein, and For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide, translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu, have won the 2009 Best Translated Book Awards for fiction and poetry ...

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Young Lions Award nominees announced

Feb 19 2009: The New York Public Library has announced the finalists for the ninth annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The nominees are:

Jon Fasman for The Unpossessed City
Rivka Galchen for Atmospheric Disturbances
Sana Krasikov for One More Year
Zachary Mason for ...

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