Nadine Gordimer

                   

40 years of Booker prize judges dish the dirt

guardian.co.uk     22 hrs ago   1 related          

One judge threatened to throw himself off a balcony, another provoked a punch-up, a third was chatted up in the taxi home by Saul Bellow ... To mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker prize and the impending announcement...                    

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Robert Giroux, giant of publishing, dies

msn.com     22 hrs ago   9 related          

Editor guided dozens of writers, including T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac NEW YORK - Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack...                    

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“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Julie Parsons

crimealwayspays.blogspot.com     02-Sep-2008          

Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ...What crime novel would you most like to have written?There are actually three – A FATAL INVERSION by Ruth Rendell / Barbara...                    

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Nobel Prizes: 7 Muslim vs. 129 Jewish Contributions to the World

europenews.dk     31-Aug-2008          

7 Muslim vs. 129 Jewish Nobel Prizes? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population....                    

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Nigeria: Oty Agbajoh-Laoye - Promoting African Writing

allafrica.com     18-Aug-2008          

G. Oty Agbajoh-Laoye, Ph.D., is how a business card would address our dear professor. She passionately professes the uniqueness and global relevance of African Creative Writing which she happily affirms has taken the world by...                    

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The Last Resistance

jewishbookweek.com     18-Aug-2008          

Jacqueline Rose, Tony Lerman. In her latest book, The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. The role of literature in the Zionist imagination is presented as...                    

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Damon Galgut says South African novelists can't avoid politics

thestar.com     09-Aug-2008          

Publishing Reporter South African writers have long been masters at balancing the political and the personal in their narratives. "Up until 1994, there was something offensive about a South African story that simply bypassed...                    

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A Nobel Lesson for Islam

neoconexpress.blogspot.com     07-Aug-2008          

I have my own doubts about the Nobel Prize, especially the "Peace" category which is given out based on a political judgment rather than any real achievement. It is certainly not meant as an insult to Islam, one of the worlds...                    

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Pollak on the Human Rights Delegation

supernatural.blogs.com     07-Aug-2008   1 related          

Joel Pollak had an article 2 days ago in the Cape Times, which appeared alongside a piece from one of the organisers of the Human Rights Delegation to Israel, Nathan Geffen. Pollak has himself been on many of the tours that the...                    

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn made history by writing it

iht.com     04-Aug-2008   3 related          

The legacy of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn serves as a reminder that books can matter as much as life and death. Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at age 89, never stood before a tank in Tiananmen Square, but novels such...                    

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