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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

Oct 17 2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (to be published in the US on Nov 1) was named the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize in a ceremony in London tonight

He was presented with his trophy by Her Majesty The Queen Consort in a new-look ceremony held at ...

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How a tiny British publisher became the home of Nobel laureates

Oct 15 2022: When Jacques Testard started his own publishing company in 2014, he wanted a name that suggested a crazy endeavor. Testard called the imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions, a reference to the 1982 Werner Herzog movie in which a rubber baron tries to haul a 320-ton steamboat ...

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MacArthur "Genius" Awards

Oct 13 2022: The MacArthur Foundation have announced their annual "genius" awards with 25 recipients receiving grants of $800,000 each.

Among their number are the writer Kiese Laymon, awarded for "bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in ...

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Mobilization causes massive teacher shortages in Russia

Oct 12 2022: The independent Russian media outlet Verstka ("Layout") has published a noteworthy piece on the devastating effect that mobilization is having on Russia's schools because thousands of teachers have been conscripted or have fled. Apparently, Russia was already short of a...

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Peter Robinson, 1950 – 2022

Oct 11 2022: Peter Robinson, the prolific British Canadian crime novelist and creator of the popular Alan Banks series of books, has died, his publisher confirmed on Friday. The Toronto-based Robinson died on Oct. 4, 2022 after a brief illness at the age of 72.

Born in England on...

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Ukraine's Lviv BookForum free online Oct 7-9

Oct 07 2022: The Lviv BookForum, Ukraine's largest literary festival, has opened with messages of support from President Volodymyr Zelensky and participants including Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. The aim of the forum is to create a civic space for a free and tolerant exchange of...

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Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature

Oct 06 2022: The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.

Ernaux, who writes novels about daily life in France as well as non-...

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Have we forgotten what a public library is for?

Oct 04 2022: In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Deborah E. Mikula, executive director of the Michigan Library Association and Loren Khogali, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan, respond to the population of Jamestown, Michigan voting that they would rather defund — ...

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