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Roger Kastel, the artist behind the ‘Jaws’ movie poster, dies aged 92

A great name in the history of cinema is no longer with us...

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Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award

Author Salman Rushdie: First, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Now, the first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award.

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Why does a Lord of the Rings exhibit matter to Italy's Giorgia Meloni?

Giorgia Meloni is set to unveil a new exhibition celebrating JRR Tolkein's 'The Lord of the Rings'. But why is the series such a key part of her political life?

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Shakespeare in space! New frontier for Folio 400 anniversary

With help from a team of engineers, filmmaker Jack Jewers sent a portrait of Shakespeare into the depths of outer space as part of the Folio 400 anniversary.

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Former film director wins France's top literary prize

Jean-Baptiste Andrea joins an illustrious list of Goncourt Prize winners including Michel Houellebecq, Marcel Proust, and Simone de Beauvoir

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Luis Mateo Díez wins Spain's most prestigious literary prize

Luis Mateo Díez has been awarded the 2023 Cervantes prize, Spain’s most prestigious literary award.

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AI’s threat to authors a hot topic at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Authors such as Salman Rushdie grappled with the potential threat to human writing posed by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Culture Re-View: How 'The War of the Worlds' terrified radio listeners

30 October 1938: When a radio broadcast convinced people that aliens were invading

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What are the most banned books in US prisons?

The list of the most sanctioned titles includes a ramen cookbook and Amy Schumer’s memoir.

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Brian Cox hits out at rewriting of James Bond books

Brian Cox: "We don't muck around with Shakespeare - we shouldn't muck around with James Bond."

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Britney seeks 'closure for a better future' with all revealing memoir

Britney Spears' highly anticipated memoir is now out revealing the pop superstar's personal take on events that have played out publicly in her decades-long career — along with private moments that she previously kept under wraps.

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Meryl Streep is honoured with arts award by Spain's royal family

Hollywood and Spanish royalty met when Meryl Streep was presented with the Princess of Asturias Award by Queen Letizia and King Felipe VI and their two daughters.

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Cultural Digest: Don’t miss these events in Europe this week

France's biggest art heist and greatest cinephile rendez-vous, celebrity revelations, and a bum-numbing new Scorsese movie.

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Stranger than fiction: 9 celebrity memoirs to binge read this autumn

From Britney Spears’ account of her conservatorship to the story behind Dolly Parton’s bedazzled threads, here are the best memoirs by stars to look out for this fall.

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75th edition of Frankfurt Book Fair shelves world crises

Fans of the world's largest book fair are invited to literary and political discussions. This year, Russia's assault on Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war are the main themes.

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Britney Spears makes abortion revelations in upcoming memoir

The US pop star, who dated Timberlake from 1999 to 2002, made the revelation in her upcoming memoir. She reveals she had an abortion because he "didn't want to be a father".

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Salman Rushdie announces memoir about New York knife attack

Rushdie describes the book as "a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art."

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Nigerian influencer offers a glossary of modern sex words in new book

In a post-#MeToo world, author and influencer Camille Aumont Carnel questions what the words we use convey about our sexualities in her new book.

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Jon Fosse: a guide to the Nobel Prize winning author

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse is the newest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He's a heavyweight in the realm of storytelling but far from a household name in the English speaking world. That may be about to change.

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Who will win this year's Nobel Prize in Literature?

We run through the bookies' odds for who's likely to win one of the world's most prestigious awards in literature.