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The winner of the international Booker prize is 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Epenbeck is the first German writer to win the award. A tumultuous love story told to the backdrop of 1986 Berlin, it's about a young woman that meets an older, married man on a bus. They begin an intense and passionate affair - until she sleeps with someone else for a night, resulting in emotional fissures that echo the collapse of East Germany. Erpenbeck described it as: ‘A private story of a big love and its decay, but it’s also a story of the dissolution of a whole politi...
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Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the photograph covers. All of these are trying to communicate something to you. It’s the publishers' first opportunity to impress upon readers information about genre, themes, similar books, and even the reader’s own age and gender. A good cover can help a book reach its intended audience, while a bad cover might be the reason a new author never gets the opportunity to publish a follow-up. Cannes Film Fest...
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Tall, dazzling and with an unforgettable moustache, Tom Selleck is known to millions as the private detective Thomas Magnum from the television series that made his name famous. Celebrated in the '80s as one of the most attractive men in the world, he played the tanned, laid-back star clad in bright Hawaiian shirts, racing around solving crimes in a red Ferrari. We now know he never intended to become an actor, the Hollywood star tells us in his autobiography "You Never Know," released in early May. "I'd never had the slightest interest in acting. Ever," Selleck writes in the book. "I was very...
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Tall, dazzling and with an unforgettable moustache, Tom Selleck is known to millions as the private detective Thomas Magnum from the television series that made his name famous. Celebrated in the '80s as one of the most attractive men in the world, he played the tanned, laid-back star clad in bright Hawaiian shirts, racing around solving crimes in a red Ferrari. We now know he never intended to become an actor, the Hollywood star tells us in his autobiography "You Never Know," released in early May. "I'd never had the slightest interest in acting. Ever," Selleck writes in the book. "I was very...
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Visitors to the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich are in for a special kind of exhibition of visual art created by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk titled "The Consolation of Objects." The title is from a chapter in Pamuk's novel of lost love, "The Museum of Innocence," in which the wealthy but forlorn Kemal takes solace in collecting items and objects that had belonged to his cousin Füsun. His collection becomes at once an obsession and a consolation, and in the end it numbers thousands of objects. Pamuk, 71, wrote the novel - published in 2008 - at the same time that he himself was ...
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Visitors to the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich are in for a special kind of exhibition of visual art created by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk titled "The Consolation of Objects." The title is from a chapter in Pamuk's novel of lost love, "The Museum of Innocence," in which the wealthy but forlorn Kemal takes solace in collecting items and objects that had belonged to his cousin Füsun. His collection becomes at once an obsession and a consolation, and in the end it numbers thousands of objects. Pamuk, 71, wrote the novel - published in 2008 - at the same time that he himself was ...
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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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