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Romanian poet Ana Blandiana wins 2024 Princess of Asturias Award

In selecting her as the winner the Asturias jury highlighted Ana Blandiana's "indomitable poetry" with which she has shown an "extraordinary capacity for resistance in the face of censorship."

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International Booker Prize 2024: 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck wins

Jenny Erpenbeck is the first German writer to win the International Booker Prize.

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Judge a book by its cover: Inside the world of book design

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them.

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Stories of race, slavery and US Civil War earn 2024 Pulitzer Prizes

Since 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes honour the best in journalism and the arts.

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Celebrated US novelist Paul Auster dies aged 77

The writer of "The New York Trilogy" and "Leviathan" has died from complications of lung cancer. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and is a revered writer in France, which he considered his "second home".

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ICYMI: EU Police bust what’s believed to be an antique book theft ring

In a coordinated operation, law enforcement arrested a group of Georgian nationals suspected of running a criminal operation stealing antique and rare books from European libraries.

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Why is France's National Library putting four books in quarantine?

Four books have been quarantined in the National Library of France. Here’s why. Warning: Spoilers for the book and film 'The Name of the Rose'.

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Jane Austen’s House needs your help transcribing her brother’s memoir

Could Jane Austen’s brother Francis shed some new light on the beloved author’s life? The Jane Austen’s House museum hopes so – but first it needs help deciphering his handwriting.

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Rebel Wilson memoir censored in the UK - but mentions Royal orgies

Rebel Wilson's book, published in its entirety in the US, has been censored in the UK, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, due to a chapter on Sacha Baron Cohen.

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PEN America cancels 2024 awards as authors withdraw over Gaza stance

PEN America cancelled next week’s awards ceremony after dozens of authors dropped out in protest of the literary organisation’s response to the war in Gaza.

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Pulitzer-winner David Mamet blasts Hollywood's diversity efforts

During the L.A. Times Festival of Books, David Mamet spoke out against the initiatives in Hollywood to create diversity, equity, and inclusion - referred to as DEI.

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UNESCO World Book Day: The books that made us

For UNESCO World Book Day, the Euronews Culture team shares the books that made them - as well as their reading recommendations.

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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford turns 100

Despite its vintage, Ford Madox Ford’s bewildering, beguiling beast of a novel deserves all the readers it can get when it turns 100 this April.

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Former UK PM Liz Truss says she knows how to save the West in new book

Will the former Prime Minister’s latest offering fly off the shelves in great enough volumes to revive the economy she crashed? Or is it enough to save the Western world as she boasts? We’re not so sure.

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‘So it’s you. Here you are.’ Salman Rushdie on his reaction to attack

Salman Rushdie’s memoir “Knife,” about the attack that almost claimed his life, comes out on Tuesday. He described feeling death had finally come for him: “So it’s you. Here you are.”

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International Booker Prize 2024: Shortlist announced

Six books spanning six languages, six countries and three continents contend for this year's biggest international language literary award.

Art

Total eclipse of the art: Why the disappearing sun captivates artists

The upcoming 8 April total solar eclipse, which for a few minutes will appear to many North Americans to have extinguished the sun, is already casting a wide shadow.

Lifestyle

A reverse book club in Brussels has guests sharing from the soul

Creating a sense of community is perhaps the hardest thing to do when gathering people together but a new, expanding book club in Brussels is succeeding by not asking for too much reading from its members.

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Beloved British author Lynne Reid Banks dies aged 94

Beloved British author of children's book "The Indian in the Cupboard", Lynne Reid Banks has died.

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Oh deer: Why is there now a 'Bambi' horror movie?

This cinematic trend needs to stop... But it won’t.