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Ismail Kadare, who had long been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Literature Prize, died at the age of 88 after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. A nurse at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorised to talk to the press, said the renowned author had suffered a cardiac arrest. “Albania and Albanians lost their genius of letters, their spiritual emancipator, the Balkans (lost) the poet of its myths, Europe and the world (lost) one of the most renowned representatives of modern literature,” Albanian Pr...
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New York (AFP) - The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" -- the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard -- sold for $1.9 million on Wednesday. The artwork becomes "the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction," auction house Sotheby's said in a statement. "The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly ten minutes before selling to applause." The work by Thomas Taylor, who was just 23 years old in 1997 when he painted the iconic image of the young boy with the l...
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New York (AFP) - The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" -- the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard -- will go up for auction in New York on Wednesday. The work by Thomas Taylor, who was just 23 years old in 1997 when he painted the iconic image of the young boy with the lightning bolt scar and the round glasses, is expected to fetch from $400,000 to $600,000 at Sotheby's. Taylor was working at a children's bookstore in Cambridge, England, when he was tapped by publisher Barry Cunningham at Bloomsbury ...
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It's the book that no one asked for, and it’s coming your way in October. Publishing house HarperCollins is to “unleash” former UK PM Boris Johnson’s memoir later this year, on 10 October, and it’s titled “Unleased”. HarperCollins described the memoir, which will cover Johnson’s time as mayor of London and as prime minister, as an “honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book, written in his inimitable style and shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir". “This is the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, uncensored, unleashed.” Johnson received a £510,000 (approx. €603,000) a...
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Growing your business and scaling your business are familiar terms and strategies for entrepreneurs, whether they’re just beginning a startup or have been in business for years. While entrepreneurs may use the terms interchangeably, they differ, which matters to your business. The most common trait the two terms share is revenue growth. How they get there is what distinguishes one from the other. Growth is measured linearly by adding technology, employees, or capital. Scale, however, is when revenue increases without having to expend resources. Processes that scale can typically be done withou...
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Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women's Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger”, a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation. Its sister award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, went to US writer V. V. Ganeshananthan for her novel “Brotherless Night,” about a family torn apart by Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Both come with £30,000 pounds (€35,000) in prize money. Both winners referenced the conflict-clouded international situation, at a time when the arts world is grappling with divisions over the Israel-Hamas war and corporate sponsorship of the art...
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The new, all-female, international arts festival inspired by one of the most famous female characters in Irish Literature, Molly Bloom from James Joyce's "Ulysses", is taking place today until the end of the weekend (16 June). The YES Festival is the first of its kind in the world, and is the concept of Seán Doran and Liam Browne (DoranBrowne), Artistic Directors of Arts Over Borders. It features 32 female artists from 16 countries across the world, coming together to perform in a range of multi-disciplinary and free events across various locations in Derry and North Donegal. These events incl...
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It’s creepy. It’s very creepy. Former president Donald Trump has shared his views on global popstar Taylor Swift, describing her as “unusually beautiful”. He was asked about Swift, the "biggest celebrity of our times" who is currently on the European leg of her Eras Tour, for the forthcoming book “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through The Looking Glass”, by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh. Rather than commenting on Swift's achievements as an artist, Trump focused, rather predictably, her looks instead. “I think she’s beautiful - very beautif...
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Two new characters have been added to the popular Mr. Men and Little Miss series of children’s books. Mr. Fib and Little Miss Surprise are the first new characters to be added to the series since Mr. Calm and Little Miss Brave were added in 2021 for the 50th anniversary of the first book. Originally created by British writer Roger Hargreeves in 1971 with ‘Mr. Tickle’, inspired by his son Adam. Between 1971 and 1988, Roger wrote and illustrated the series, adding the Little Miss series from 1981. After his death in 1988, his son Adam took over writing and illustrating duties. Sketch me baby one...
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Stephen King has been scaring the spit out of us for half a century now. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, “Carrie,” the scalding tale of a teenage girl whose pyrotechnic powers are provoked by high school cruelty. Since then, King, 76, has published more than 70 bestselling books of fiction, sometimes as many as three in one year, dozens of which have become movies or TV series. He’s conjured up our chills with small-town vampires, haunted hotels, possessed cars, revenant pets — much of the success of his fiction grows from his ability to anchor horro...
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