Israeli ‘handmaids’ march against government’s judiciary overhaul
Issued on: 17/03/2023 – 10:53 It’s become an ominous fixture of the mass anti-government protests roiling Israel: a coil of women in crimson robes and...
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'The monster can come again': Revisiting the horrors of Raqqa under IS group
In 2014 the peaceful city of Raqqa in northern Syria was proclaimed the capital of the Islamic State group’s so-called caliphate. For nearly four years,...
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Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize celebrates a uniquely resonant voice in French literature
Issued on: 07/10/2022 – 14:23 Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, in recognition of the “courage...
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French novelist, memoirist Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Issued on: 06/10/2022 – 13:02 French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist of Le Petit Nicolas fame, dies at 89
Issued on: 11/08/2022 – 22:11 Jean-Jacques Sempe, who illustrated the much-loved “Little Nicolas” (Le Petit Nicolas) series of French children’s books, has died aged 89,...
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France celebrates 400 years of Molière, the nation’s defining playwright
Issued on: 15/01/2022 – 15:44 France on Saturday began a year of events to mark the 400th anniversary of Molière, the nation’s most illustrious – ...
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Dissident Iranian writer Baktash Abtin dies in detention after contracting Covid-19
Issued on: 08/01/2022 – 15:36Modified: 08/01/2022 – 15:39 Dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin, who was serving a jail sentence in Tehran on security...
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Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, icon of US literature, dies at 87
Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely...
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In choice of Vargas Llosa, French Academy breaks rules and stirs debate
The august institution that sets the standards of the French language has admitted Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa as a new member, although he is...
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Want to be a ‘bouquiniste’? Tough time for Paris booksellers prompts search for new recruits
The booksellers that line the Seine river in Paris – known as “bouquinistes” – are an iconic part of the city’s landscape. But recent years have...
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France moves to shield local bookstores from Amazon with law on minimum delivery charge
Issued on: 25/10/2021 – 18:12Modified: 25/10/2021 – 18:14 Sophie Fornairon’s independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits...
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Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Issued on: 07/10/2021 – 13:03 Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate” look at “the effects...