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01 Nov 2009 10:56

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Offbeat: Lord of the cha-ching! Lord Byron’s letters get record auction sum

  • $458,000 for dead poet’s words source
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16 Oct 2009 21:36

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World: He was an exhumed Spanish poet, and he didn’t even know it

  • Federico Garcia Lorca will be exhumed from a Spanish mass grave. After years of fighting through the legal system, the last hurdle has been cleared and one of Spain’s greatest poets could be given a proper burial. Lorca, who was executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, has likely been sitting in the mass grave for over 70 years. source
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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
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