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Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand, says agent

Oct 23 2022: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack he suffered while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York state two months ago, his agent has confirmed.

The 75-year-old author, who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s ...

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Notes from Frankfurt: Ukraine's Zelensky tells book world to 'make people know'

Oct 21 2022: An unofficial theme of the Frankfurt Book Fair this year is support for Ukraine, which has manifested itself in a variety of ways. The most dramatic came yesterday when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the book fair via video from Kyiv. He was forceful ...

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Ng named ABA's inaugural Indie Bookstore Ambassador

Oct 20 2022: The American Booksellers Association announced Wednesday that Celeste Ng is the organization’s inaugural ambassador and will represent its new Indie Bookstore Ambassador Program, which will promote indie bookstores year-round. Ng will champion indies as they prepare for...

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

Oct 17 2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (to be published in the US on Nov 1) was named the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize in a ceremony in London tonight

He was presented with his trophy by Her Majesty The Queen Consort in a new-look ceremony held at ...

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How a tiny British publisher became the home of Nobel laureates

Oct 15 2022: When Jacques Testard started his own publishing company in 2014, he wanted a name that suggested a crazy endeavor. Testard called the imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions, a reference to the 1982 Werner Herzog movie in which a rubber baron tries to haul a 320-ton steamboat ...

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MacArthur "Genius" Awards

Oct 13 2022: The MacArthur Foundation have announced their annual "genius" awards with 25 recipients receiving grants of $800,000 each.

Among their number are the writer Kiese Laymon, awarded for "bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in ...

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Mobilization causes massive teacher shortages in Russia

Oct 12 2022: The independent Russian media outlet Verstka ("Layout") has published a noteworthy piece on the devastating effect that mobilization is having on Russia's schools because thousands of teachers have been conscripted or have fled. Apparently, Russia was already short of a...

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Peter Robinson, 1950 – 2022

Oct 11 2022: Peter Robinson, the prolific British Canadian crime novelist and creator of the popular Alan Banks series of books, has died, his publisher confirmed on Friday. The Toronto-based Robinson died on Oct. 4, 2022 after a brief illness at the age of 72.

Born in England on...

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