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Franzen's latest, minus the corrections, to be withdrawn
He named his previous novel the The Corrections, but perhaps he should have saved the title for his latest work.
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Nobel jury picks literature prize winner
Friday, 1 October 2010
The Swedish Academy has selected the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and will announce the decision next week after a formal vote, the panel's spokesman said today.
Poet forced to pulp book after row with her family
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
A prominent Irish poet has lived up to descriptions of her work as provocative, anarchic and untameable by sparking family divisions with her latest collection.
Elizabeth Gaskell joins the greats in Poets' Corner
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Kate Youde: Westminster Abbey commemorates the 'Cranford' author and biographer days before the bicentenary of her birth
Survivor's relative 'reveals truth' of Titanic sinking
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Relative of survivor claims that order to steer the ship away from danger was misunderstood by steersman.
Allison Pearson: the agonies in writing her latest book
Monday, 20 September 2010
Best-selling author tells of how she was engulfed by 'bad clinical depression.' By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent.
British Library ponders the historical value of Twitter
Saturday, 18 September 2010
The chief executive of the British Library yesterday confessed to having asked herself recently: "Should a world-class library preserve Stephen Fry's tweets?"
Germany has yet to rid itself of its guilt over the Nazis, says Schlink
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Bernhard Schlink, the best-selling author of The Reader, a post-Nazi era novel adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet, yesterday spoke about the extent of "collective guilt" which survives to this day among generations of Germans because of the atrocities of the Third Reich.
Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45m in four years'
Friday, 17 September 2010
Arifa Akbar: China leader qualifies as greatest mass murderer in history, says expert with access to official archives
Steven Berkoff: Rise of an 'up and coming nobody'
Friday, 17 September 2010
Steven Berkoff may be among the most acclaimed playwrights and actors of his generation but he revealed he would much rather have been a tailor, like his father, given a choice between the two.
Bronte letter on display
Friday, 17 September 2010
A moving letter written by Charlotte Bronte in 1848 goes on display at the Parsonage Museum, Haworth, for the first time tomorrow.
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