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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Matilda musical movie starring Emma Thompson to open London film festival

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World premiere of the film version of the Roald Dahl-based musical also stars Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough Continue...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Dakota Johnson: making Fifty Shades of Grey was ‘psychotic’, ‘crazy’ and ‘always a battle’

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Anastasia Steele actor describes constant disagreements on the set of the hit erotic thriller due to disagreements with Fifty Shades author ...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Philip Pullman leads outcry after Sheffield Hallam withdraws English lit degree

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Study of literature should not be a ‘luxury for a wealthy minority of spoilt aesthetes’, author says Continue reading...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Frank Moorhouse, Australian author and essayist, dies aged 83

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Admirers pay tribute to writer best known for the Edith trilogy after death in Sydney hospital Follow our Australia news live blog for the...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem

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Seventy-five years after Diary of a Young Girl’s publication, Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox’ of the journal’s bright ...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Digested week: the joy of missing out on Glastonbury, and why moaning works

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Glastonbury makes me revel in my sprung mattress from where I can watch RMT boss Mick Lynch dressing down media pundits Continue reading......
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Miles Franklin 2022: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

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A self-published novel by Michael Winkler joins Alice Pung, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Michelle de Kretser and Jennifer Down to compete for $60...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The small town with a big potato that inspired a global poetry win

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Robertson might be tiny but for poet and schoolteacher Peter Ramm, it is the secret weapon that helped him win the UK’s biggest prize for un...

‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson

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The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, ...

4thWrite short story prize seeks best new writers of colour

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Unpublished writers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds have until 14 August to submit their entries for the Guardian and publ...

Malorie Blackman’s ‘dynamic imaginary worlds’ win her the PEN Pinter prize

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Noughts & Crosses author praised by judges for ‘challenging issues of injustice in a way that is totally engaging’ Continue reading... ...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Ukraine restricts Russian books and music in latest step of ‘derussification’

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New laws also increase quotas on Ukrainian-language speech and music on television and radio Continue reading...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing

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Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts Follow our Australia news live blo...

‘Trust breached’: publisher distances herself from author John Hughes amid plagiarism claims

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Upswell publisher Terri-ann White says she is distressed by controversy around former Miles Franklin prize longlist novel The Dogs Get our...