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Several stories tackling race, slavery and the US Civil War, both real and invented, were among the winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes, the US-based awards that honour the best in journalism and the arts. Here is a breakdown of the laureates, in eight categories covering the arts – which focus on books, theatre and music. Fiction - “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne PhillipsSet in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War, the author’s third instalment in a trilogy about different wars, follows a 12-year-old girl and her mother, who was abused by a Confed...
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New York (AFP) - The wife of US writer Paul Auster, who died due to lung cancer complications, said Thursday that her family was "robbed" of "dignity" after a friend quickly confirmed his death to media outlets. The New York Times, citing a friend of the couple, published a story of Auster's passing hours after his death on Tuesday, with other outlets following suit with similar reports. "I was naive, but I had imagined that I would be the person to announce the death of my husband," Siri Hustvedt, an esteemed novelist, wrote on Instagram. "He died with us, his family, around him on April 30,...
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Over 100 law enforcement officials were deployed last week to raid 27 different locations in Georgia and Latvia – on the lookout for rare and antique books that had been stolen from European libraries. The cross-border operation coordinated by Europol, the EU’s police agency, resulted in the arrest of four Georgians who are believed to be part of a criminal group that ransacked libraries across the continent, stealing at least 170 valuable collectors’ books. In total, the group is believed to have caused €2.5 million worth of financial damages and an “immeasurable patrimonial loss to society” ...
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Remember Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film The Name of the Rose, based on Umberto Eco’s historical mystery novel of the same name? In it, a Franciscan friar William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) heads to an abbey northern Italy to investigate a mysterious death – which turns into a series of untimely demises – linked to Aristotle’s "Second Book of Poetics", which describes how comedy can be used to teach. Believing jocularity to be instruments of the Devil, some devious bastard (we won’t spoil that part here) poisons the pages to stop the spread of dangerous ideas, and those reading the book would in...
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European authorities say they have rounded up a criminal gang who stole rare antique books worth €2.5 million from libraries across Europe. In a press release, Europol announced they had arrested four Georgian nationals in Georgia and Lithuania who are thought to have collaborated in the plot, in which at least 170 books were stolen. "In 2022 and 2023, the criminal group managed to steal rare books from national and historical libraries in Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland," Europol explained in its account of the arrests. "The thieves would ...
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A gang of sophisticated thieves targeting valuable antique books has been broken up, Europol reported in The Hague on Thursday. Nine Georgians have been arrested in raids in Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and France, the European Union's law enforcement agency said. The gang is held responsible for the theft of at least 170 books, causing damage of around €2.5 million ($2.7 million) "and an immeasurable patrimonial loss to society," Europol said. Some of the books had been sold at auction in St Petersburg and Moscow, "effectively making them irrecoverable," it said. The thieves had focuse...
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Every reality needs fiction. Pedro Almodóvar learnt this much from his mother, who once worked as a letter reader in her village, imaginatively embellishing the local correspondence. In the title story to a new book of stories he has described as a "fragmentary autobiography", Almodóvar narrates his final farewell to his mother. "The Last Dream" is one of 12 stories in which the world-famous filmmaker behind "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her" proves himself to be also a talented literary writer. Written in widely varying genres, the stories come from very different periods of the 74-year-...
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Every reality needs fiction. Pedro Almodóvar learnt this much from his mother, who once worked as a letter reader in her village, imaginatively embellishing the local correspondence. In the title story to a new book of stories he has described as a "fragmentary autobiography", Almodóvar narrates his final farewell to his mother. "The Last Dream" is one of 12 stories in which the world-famous filmmaker behind "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her" proves himself to be also a talented literary writer. Written in widely varying genres, the stories come from very different periods of the 74-year-...
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Writers group PEN America announced it’s cancelling its annual awards ceremony – just a week before it was set to take place in New York City – after dozens of authors dropped out over the literary organisation’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza. Sixty-one authors and translators were nominated for awards, with 28 of them withdrawing their books from consideration, according to a statement released on Monday. PEN, a literary and free expression organisation, hands out hundreds of thousands of US dollars in prizes each year, including $75,000 (€70,000) for the PEN/Jean Stein Award for best book...
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