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French Writer J.M.G. Le Clézio Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has become the 14th French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.On Thursday the Swedish Academy announced that Le Clézio had been awarded the $1.43 million... Hemingway's Cats Keep Purrfect Home
Writer Ernest Hemingway's cats, all 50 descendants of his beloved pet 'Snowball', will be able to remain at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum and freely roam the one-acre property in the Florida Keys. They had... Lost Agatha Christie Audiotapes Discovered
A large collection of previously unknown audiotapes recorded by acclaimed British mystery writer Agatha Christie have been discovered in one of her former houses in Devon. The tapes offer a highly personal "dictation... Free Speech Toronto: Poetry, Prose and Music from Downtown
Free Speech Toronto kicked off its fourth season, hosted by Johan Hultqvist, a musician and great lover of his neighborhood, High Park.Free Speech showcases the constantly-developing work of residents of the High... New Book Publication! The History of Mixed Family's of Niger!
Now this is a book worth reading and rather facinating, maybe more to me than others since it is about Niger and its mixed race Family's.It is called "Histoire des foyers des metis de la colonie du Niger". Unfortunately so far only availeble in French, yet for those that do...Would Balzac feel Honored to Have a Wine Bar named after him?
How would a heavyweight of French literature feel if he had a chance to see his name adorning the marquee of a Wine Bar I wondered? The wine bar in question, Balzac is in Milwaukee (Wisconsin)...They do know how to... France's literary return to work
Summer is almost over here in Europe. All right so you would be hard pushed to be able to tell it from the weather, which seems certainly to have rejoiced in being almost one long wet spring shower with intermittent... Green Living means 'Don't shit where you eat'
In a context totally unrelated to sewage a boss of mine once advised me early in my career not to 'shit where I eat'. This was wise business advice but it's also true in a literal sense. The question of... Paris, Not just Bar Tabac, Literary Cafes as well!
Paris has been known as the refuge for real and wannabe artists over time, be it jazz musicians, poets, painters, writers and others.Isobel Scott covers some New Cafés Littéraires for Globespotters.Amongst them Tea and Tattered Pages "with its second hand English books from... Historical Fiction Novel Exposes Prurience and Violence in 19th Century China
The Lustful Life of Sir Robert Hart:Or, Prurience & Violence in 19th Century ChinaA Critical Review of Lloyd Lofthouse’s “My Splendid Concubine” by Tom Carter Fans of historical fiction... B.C. to mandate CanLit in high school English courses
Culture police at work again? Well surely it's weird that high school students in BC, when they study literature at all, are assigned only American and British works. Canadian writers are off the local radar. ... The Koran: Words beyond worth
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHaving read the Koran cover to cover and being Catholic having the Bible drilled into me as a child the comparisons are eeriely similar, both preach tolerance, benevolence,... Puputan - One More Time
"Daybreak, September 20 1906… about 500 adults wearing kamben alancingan putih (white ceremonial uniform), with keris on his back and long spears on their hand rally from Puri Denpasar heading to Taensiat area. Led...William Shakespeare first folio gets £435,250
What is arguably the most important book in the history of English literature, a rare first folio of Shakespeare plays, has sold for almost half a million pounds at Christies."Only 200 examples of the book, without...
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