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Chile exhumes body of famed poet Pablo Neruda

April 8, 2013 04:33
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The body of famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda has been exhumed in Isla Negra, as authorities hope to lay to rest questions about whether he died of prostate cancer, or was murdered by the Pinochet regime.

Goodbye, Gore Vidal

August 1, 2012 11:01
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Celebrated writer, thinker, cultural commentator and wit Gore Vidal died yesterday at the age of 86, ending a long and unabashedly prickly career.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has dementia, can no longer write, says brother

July 7, 2012 08:02
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"He has problems with his memory," the author's younger brother said. "Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him."

Ray Bradbury dead: Fahrenheit 451 author dies aged 91

June 6, 2012 10:53
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"I think that I'm a magician who is capable of making things appear and disappear right in front of you and you don't know how it happened," wrote Ray Bradbury of his work.

PHOTOS: Maurice Sendak, 'Where the Wild Things Are' author, dies at 83

May 8, 2012 11:33
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GlobalPost pays tribute to one of the 20th century's most innovative and iconic writer-illustrators.

Maurice Sendak, 'Where the Wild Things Are' author, dead at 83 (PHOTOS)

May 8, 2012 09:00
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Sendak wrote some 20 books and illustrated dozens more. He was awarded a National Medal of Arts in 1996.
January 10, 2012 19:18
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UK literary prize honors funny, angry book reviews

Britain's Hatchet Job of the Year Award announces list of finalists.
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People browse literature at a bookstore on August 3, 2011. (BULENT KILIC /AFP/Getty Images)
A new literary prize is turning heads in Britain. The Hatchet Job of the Year Award honors "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine in 2011. Eight finalists for the prize were announced Tuesday, reported the Associated Press.
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