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Longshot Anne Enright wins Booker Prize

Oct 17 2007: Anne Enright has won Britain's Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Gathering, published in the UK in May 2007 and in the USA as a paperback original in Septembe 2007. The book beat out the two favorites Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. The...

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Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 years

Oct 16 2007: Reuters reports that The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it has closely guarded for 700 years. A reproduction of the minutes of...

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Garry Potter fever hits Russia

Oct 15 2007: Garry Potter published in Russia over the weekend, with midnight madness comparable to that in English speaking countries back in July. The Rosman publishing house expects to sell 1.8 million in its first week. Because Russian has no "h," Harry Potter is pronounced ...

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Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Gore shares Peace Prize

Oct 11 2007: Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic The Golden Notebook, won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. The judges praised her "skepticism, fire and visionary power."

Lessing, less than two ...

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National Book Award Finalists

Oct 10 2007: The National Book Award finalists have been announced. The finalists in the fiction and nonfiction categories are:

Fiction
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
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Holtzbrinck Publishing is now Macmillan

Oct 09 2007: Effective today, Holtzbrinck Publishers has changed its name to Macmillan, but all but one imprint belonging to the company (including Henry Holt, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's, Tor, Picador, Scientific American and W.H. Freeman) will retain their names. The ...

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Oprah boosts "Love in the Time of Cholera" book and movie.

Oct 09 2007: Oprah's choice of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as her book club's latest pick is a marketing coup for New Line Cinema, who will be releasing a movie based on the book on November 16th, and for publisher, Vintage, who released the movie tie-in ...

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"Kite Runner" movie delayed due to concerns for actors' safety

Oct 04 2007: The New York Times reports that because of concerns about the safety of some of the child actors in the movie and disputes with them and their families, Paramount Vintage plans to delay the opening of The Kite Runner by six weeks to December 14. Apparently, the ...

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