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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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Legendary playwright, filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter David Mamet did not mince his words The scribe, who is behind The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and the very underrated Wag the Dog, talked about the entertainment industry’s efforts to drive greater diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in its ranks. And he's no fan. “DEI is garbage,” Mamet told the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. He added the industry’s DEI efforts amounted to “fascist totalitarianism.” The playwright and director, who has worked in Hollywood since the 1...
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Today is UNESCO World Book Day, a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, events take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. In order to celebrate, the Euronews Culture team has answered a series of six questions each regarding their reading history - a sort of "Books Of Our Lives". Here's what we came up with. Anca Ulea’s picksAnca is a reporter and producer with Euronews Culture, who lives in a village in the south of France. Romanian by birth, American ...
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If the centenary is an appropriate anniversary for assessing a book’s staying power, then it’s probably about time to acknowledge that Graham Greene was wrong. The "Brighton Rock" author made the rookie mistake of trying to look through the mists of time when he declared: “There is no novelist of [the 20th century] more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.” But if, 100 years after its first volume was published in April 1924, you went searching for a copy of "Parade’s End" in your local bookshop, you might find yourself more unlucky than if you were looking for, say, a paperback of Greene’s "T...
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If there was anyone who imagined that, after kowtowing to Boris Johnson throughout his dismal premiership, leading her own dangerous and divisive culture war campaign for the Tory party leadership contest, crashing the UK economy in one afternoon, and resigning after a mere seven weeks as Prime Minister, Liz Truss would beat a quiet, shamefaced retreat from the public eye, then those people - and there can’t have been many - need to think again. Today, the shortest-serving British Prime Minister ever releases her new book, the ominously (and poorly) titled 'Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons ...
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“I was seated at stage right,” Salman Rushdie read from his upcoming memoir, about the knife attack that almost claimed his life and left him blind in one eye. “Then, in the corner of my right eye – the last thing my right eye would ever see – I saw the man in black running toward me down the right-hand side of the seating area. Black clothes, black face mask. He was coming in hard and low. A squat missile. “I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way. So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing tow...
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New York (AFP) - Vivant depuis 1989 sous la menace de mort d'une fatwa émise par le régime islamique d'Iran, Salman Rushdie s'est longtemps interrogé sur l'identité de celui qui finirait par le tuer. Sur le point d'être poignardé en 2022, sa première pensée fut: "c'est donc toi". L'écrivain américano-britannique raconte ses réflexions sur cette agression en public qui l'a conduit à l'article de la mort dans "Le Couteau", qui paraîtra le 16 avril aux Etats-Unis, et le 18 avril en France aux éditions Gallimard. Salman Rushdie a été agressé au couteau en août 2022 lors d'une conférence littéraire...
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New York (AFP) - Salman Rushdie, targeted for assassination since 1989 over his writing, had long wondered who would kill him. When he was stabbed almost fatally, his first thought was, "So it's you." The novelist has recounted his thoughts on his 2022 near death in a book, "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," which is set for publication on Tuesday. In an excerpt from the book which he read for the CBS News show "60 Minutes," Rushdie described "the last thing my right eye would ever see" -- a man in black clothes "coming in hard and low" like a "squat missile." "I confess, I had so...
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The shortlist for the International Booker Prize is finally here, celebrating some of the very best works of literature that were originally written in a language other than English. This year's contenders represent six languages (Dutch, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish) across six countries (Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea and Sweden) and three continents (Asia, Europe and South America). Meet the Kirklands, the creative couple getting people reading classic literatureDo polyglots process all foreign languages in the brain the same as their mother tongue? N...
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A quarter of US citizens are expected to journey to various locations where the eclipse can be seen at its most complete - not to mention the legions of skygazers planning to travel in from abroad. But why is this event, which will happen again in 2044, getting so much attention, with live coverage already confirmed across popular news and streaming platforms for those who can’t make the trip? Well, aside from taking place in a part of the world known for its ability to promote almost any event so long as it can turn a buck, a brief look at how eclipses have featured in art and literature migh...
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