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La canadiense Margaret Atwood gana el galardón de las Letras
La escritora canadiense Margaret Atwood logró hoy el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en recompensa a "una espléndida obra literaria", que explora diferentes géneros "con agudeza e ironía", sin olvidar la denuncia de las injusticias sociales....Tags: Harold Bloom, Amos Oz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Auster, Arthur Miller
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Treinta y dos candidaturas optan al Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras
Treinta y dos candidaturas procedentes de veinticuatro países optan al Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, que se fallará el miércoles próximo en la ciudad española de Oviedo. A estas candidaturas se podrán sumar las que presente el jurado...Tags: Mario Vargas Llosa, Amos Oz, Google Inc., Paul Auster
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Harry Potter prequel
An 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, sold for nearly 25,000 pounds at a charity auction Tuesday. With the winning bid of $48,858, the absent bidder paid more than $59 a word for Rowling's short story...Tags: Auction Service, Harry Potter, Tom Stoppard, Charity, Fiction
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'Harry Potter' prequel to be auctioned off
An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in the British capital. Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd. says the cream-colored A5 papers -- each slightly bigger than a postcard -- were distributed to 13...Tags: Auction Service, Harry Potter, Tom Stoppard, Richard Ford, Books and Magazines
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Harry Potter prequel auctioned to aid charities
Associated Press WriterAn 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling, sold for nearly 25,000 pounds at a charity auction Tuesday. With the winning bid of $48,858, the absent bidder paid more than $59 a word for Rowling's short story...Tags: Auction Service, Harry Potter, Tom Stoppard, Charity, Fiction
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A 'Harry Potter' prequel is up for auction
May 29, 2008 An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in London. Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd. says the cream-colored A5 papers -- each slightly bigger than a postcard -- were distributed to 13...Tags: Auction Service, Harry Potter, Tom Stoppard, Books and Magazines, Charity
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'Girls Like Us' by Sheila Weller
Girls Like Us
Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation
Sheila Weller
Atria: 592 pp., $27.95
Sisterhood -- in the family and body politic -- can be a beautiful abstraction and a real pain in the neck. It's an...Tags: Joan Didion, Pat Benatar, Erica Jong, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe
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New in paperback
The Good Terrorist By Doris Lessing Vintage, $14.95 In this novel written long before 9/11, the Nobel Prize-winning author explores the depths of the terrorist mind, creating a portrait of a motley group that lurches into violent activity. The...Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Abraham Lincoln, Primo Levi, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Major League Baseball
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Q&A with Doris Lessing, awarded Nobel Prize for literature
Special to NewsdayFor 25 years, Doris Lessing has lived in a small row house in a North London neighborhood that abuts the cemetery where Sigmund Freud is buried. Each morning, the 87-year-old Nobel prize winner rises at 5 a.m. and feeds several hundred birds. She then...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Salman Rushdie, John Freeman, Refugee, Culture
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Lessing's work leaves a lasting mark
Without the refresher course of last week's news stories about the Nobel Prize, I couldn't have named the characters in "The Golden Notebook" or reconstructed a scene or even given a good synopsis of the plot. I still consider it one of the most...Tags: Erica Jong, Awards and Prizes, Television, Books and Magazines
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