Topic: Western Europe
MADRID (Reuters) - Having children spurred Spanish award-winning director and script-writer Julia Montejo to turn her hand to literature and she has just published her second novel with a third one on the way."I've been far more productive since I've had two ...
Authors led by Salman Rushdie issued a protest Friday after outspoken Chinese writer Liao Yiwu said Beijing refused him permission to travel to New York for a literary festival.Liao, who spent four years in jail after writing the poem "Massacre" about the ...
The Egyptian-born poet and novelist Andree Chedid, the grandmother of French rock singer Matthieu Chedid, died in Paris on Sunday aged 90, her publisher Flammarion said.She was born into a Lebanese Christian family in Cairo in 1920 and was educated in Egypt ...
A sharp-tongued Polish cleaning lady is making a splash in Germany with a tell-all memoir revealing the seamy underbelly of Europe's biggest economy and exploding the myth of Germans' penchant for order."Under German Beds" written under the pen name Justyna Polanska shot ...
A French celebrity TV news anchor, accused this month of plagiarism in his new biography of Ernest Hemingway, now faces trial for allegedly using his ex-lover's letters in a novel, a report said Tuesday.Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, a household name in France for ...
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sold his memoirs to two publishing houses and is expected to have a manuscript ready in March, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.The Guardian, one of the newspapers to whom WikiLeaks has provided some ...
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sold his memoirs to two publishing houses and is expected to have a manuscript ready in March, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.The Guardian, one of the newspapers to whom WikiLeaks has provided some ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has sold his memoirs to two publishing houses and is expected to have a manuscript ready in March, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.The Guardian, one of the newspapers to whom Wikileaks has provided ...
Clarification: Britain-Rare Book storyIn a Dec. 7 story about the auction of a rare edition of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" book, The Associated Press reported the book sold at auction for the hammer price of $10,270,000. That figure excluded the ...
One of Spain's leading flamenco singers, Enrique Morente, died Monday at a Madrid hospital where he had been in coma following an operation for an ulcer, his family said. He was 67."After several days of a tough struggle against death, Enrique Morente, ...
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