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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs, titled "Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021," are to be published in late November, three years after the end of her 16-year tenure, her publisher announced on Monday. Merkel, who led the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), weathered a number of crises during her time in office, including Europe's high influx of migrants in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former chancellor co-wrote the book with her long-time political advisor, Beate Baumann. According to publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the book will look back on Merkel's life in two G...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs, titled "Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021," are to be published in late November, three years after the end of her 16-year tenure, her publisher announced on Monday. Merkel, who led the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), weathered a number of crises during her time in office, including Europe's high influx of migrants in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former chancellor co-wrote the book with her long-time political advisor, Beate Baumann. According to publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the book will look back on Merkel's life in two G...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs, titled "Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021," are to be published in late November, three years after the end of her 16-year tenure, her publisher announced on Monday. Merkel, who led the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), weathered a number of crises during her time in office, including Europe's high influx of migrants in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former chancellor co-wrote the book with her long-time political advisor, Beate Baumann. According to publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the book will look back on Merkel's life in two G...
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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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Los Angeles (AFP) - Daniel Radcliffe has said he is saddened by author J.K. Rowling's stance on transgender rights, telling an interviewer he has not spoken to the "Harry Potter" creator in years. Radcliffe, who played boy wizard Potter in the wildly successful film adaptations of Rowling's best-selling books, has found himself at odds with Rowling on the thorny issue of gender identity. Rowling has faced accusations of transphobia for her stance emphasizing biological sex over gender identity, while Radcliffe has long campaigned for LGBTQ groups that defend the rights of trans women. "It make...
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New York (AFP) - Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist whose works included "The New York Trilogy," has died of complications from lung cancer, a friend of the novelist told AFP. He was 77. Auster died on Tuesday evening at his home in Brooklyn surrounded by family, including his wife Siri Hustvedt and daughter Sophie Auster, his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden said in a statement sent to AFP. He made his name with noirish, existentialist novels about lonely writers, outsiders and down-and-outers that were a huge hit in Europe particularly. The author with the soulful, sunken eyes ...
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Paul Auster, the prolific American author whose works include “The New York Trilogy” has died aged 77 after complications from lung cancer. Auster died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, according to the New York Times, citing a friend of the novelist. Auster ‘s diagnosis with cancer was first announced last year by his wife and fellow author Siri Hustvedt. Born in neighboring New Jersey, Auster became a literary icon in New York during the 1980s with works like “The New York Trilogy,” which put a philosophical twist on the detective genre. His other major works include “Moon Palace” (1989), “...
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Paris (AFP) - American author Paul Auster who made his name with noirish, existentialist novels about lonely writers, outsiders and down-and-outers that were a huge hit in Europe particularly, has died aged 77. He died on Tuesday evening at his home in Brooklyn surrounded by family, including his wife Siri Hustvedt and daughter Sophie Auster, his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden said in a statement sent to AFP. The author with the soulful, sunken eyes gained cult status in the 1980s and 1990s with his "New York Trilogy" of metaphysical mysteries and his hip film "Smoke", about the lost sou...
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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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