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Bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami wins Spanish Asturias prize for literature

MADRID — Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature, the Spanish foundation…

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Bulgarian writer wins International Booker Prize for darkly comic memory novel

LONDON — Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Time Shelter,”…

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Novelist James Patterson, journalist Vicky Ward plan book on killing of Idaho college students

Best-selling novelist James Patterson is teaming up with investigative journalist Vicky Ward on a book about the 2022 killing of…

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Fatimah Ashgar wins $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

A debut novel by the poet and screenwriter Fatimah Ashgar has won the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, a…

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Kingsolver, O’Farrell among Women’s Prize fiction finalists

An Appalachian update on Charles Dickens and a tale told by a dolphin are among six finalists for the prestigious…

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How ‘Perry Mason’ captured 1930s Los Angeles, race divisions

LOS ANGELES — Early in the second season finale of “Perry Mason,” which aired Monday, the titular character pulls up…

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Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries dies in Sydney at 89

CANBERRA, Australia — Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending…

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Fire breaks out at Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer Island attraction

An area of the Disneyland resort in California has reportedly caught fire ANAHEIM, Calif. — An area of the Disneyland…

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Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren dies

Edward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died BROOKFIELD, Vt.…

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In new book, Murakami explores walled city and shadows

TOKYO — Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city when he was fresh off his debut. More than…

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