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José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Writer, Dies at 87 by McNally Robinson - Saturday, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:35pm

José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was 87.

A novel by Mr. Saramago, "The Elephant's Journey," is to be published posthumously in English on Sept. 8 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Categories: Authors, Publishing News, Literature


Readers salivate over Salinger's unpublished manuscripts by McNally Robinson - Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:01am

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant two weeks but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available.

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Canadian Library Association Announces the 2009 Young Adult Book Award Shortlist by Lynn Popham - Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:38am

The Young Adult Services Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association announced the shortlist for the 2009 Young Adult Book Award.

This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English-language Canadian work of fiction (novel, collection of short stories or graphic novel), published in 2008, that appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.

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Canadian Library Association Announces 2009 Book of the Year for Children Shortlist by Lynn Popham - Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:32am

The Canadian Association of Children's Librarians Section of the Canadian Association of Public Libraries, a division of the Canadian Library Association, has announced the shortlist for the 2009 Book of the Year Award for Children.

Categories: Awards, Publishing News, Book Lists

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