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Now playing Next Culture news 'In Search of Lost Time': Original manuscript restored in France Conservators at the National Library of France have spent hundreds of hours restoring 75 pages of Marcel Proust's "In search of Lost Time", published in 1913. But what is so special about this manuscript? 13/07/2022
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Now playing Next Culture news World's biggest book fair opens its doors in Frankfurt From 20 to 24 October, Frankfurt Book Fair will welcome visitors from all around the world, but in a smaller edition due to the pandemic. 20/10/2021
Now playing Next Culture news Prize winner Carmen Mola and a long line of gender-swapping pseudonyms In the wake of Spain's €1 million Planeta literature Award controversy, we reflect on the authors of times past that used pen names, and why they chose to. 20/10/2021
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