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Canada Reads champion Kate Beaton wins 2024 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton’s graphic memoir, “Ducks,” has been honored with the prestigious 2024 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.…

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Nobel literature prize won by South Korean author Han Kang

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the…

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South Korea’s Han Kang awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “for her intense poetic prose that confronts…

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Edna O’Brien, iconoclastic giant of Irish literature who penned The Country Girls, dead at 93

Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel, The Country Girls, before gaining…

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Digital trove of recordings by Canadian literature greats coming together

Jason Camlot was chatting with his new boss in the English department of Montreal’s Concordia University in 1999 when he…

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Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which…

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5 ways for literature lovers to get bookish this summer

There are so many ways to pursue a bookish life in the summer: cozying up in a hammock with a…

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