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08 Oct 2009 08:32

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Culture: A “landscape of the dispossessed”: Herta Müller’s Nobel Prize win

The German novelist, essayist and poet, born in Romania, is the 12th female winner of the most literary Nobel Prize. source

11 Aug 2009 10:34

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Culture: Aussie rock icon Nick Cave has a new book coming out

  • Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with Bunny Munro.
  • “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh • Describing Bunny Munro, the main character of Nick Cave’s new novel, “The Death of Bunny Munro.” The book comes out next month, and it’s not the first one Cave has written. Although we’d really like to see a movie come out of this script. • source