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...Enríquez’s International Booker shortlisting implies growing respect in the global literary community for a genre long dismissed as “faintly disreputable”, as a scholar once described the work of Shirley...
...less than a week, my reading could travel from magical realism (Adolfo Bioy Casares’ 1940 The Invention of Morel, a 103-page marvel about a fugitive hiding out on a remote Polynesian island), to gothic (Shirley...
...“Adieu to Old England”, performed by Shirley Collins, is “a story of loss, of loss of privilege, that resonated across the centuries”....
...His second book was the winner of the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the same year....
...Her stories, which take simple, allegorical ideas to extremes, are sexy, witty and full of satirical details; her Booker-nominated novel The Accidental (2005) featured an otherworldly stranger who, uninvited...
...Sybille Bedford, Jane Austen, Shirley Hazzard, Nancy Mitford, Charles Dickens, Joseph Roth, Paula Fox. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
...But Cory Booker, the youthful and charismatic black mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is backing Mr Obama, as is Shirley Franklin, Atlanta’s African-American mayor....
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