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Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride whose fearless novels about women’s struggles in her homeland scandalised the nation, has died aged 93. Her debut novel “The Country Girls” was banned in Ireland but O’Brien later gained international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House. O'Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by her publisher Faber and the literary agency PFD. “A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic ground, to write truthfully, from a place of deep fee...
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A bid for the first National Centre for Writing has been made by New Writing North, an arts charity based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. The call comes alongside the change in government in Britain after the Conservative Party was removed following 14 years of rule. The £14 million (€16.67 million) plan seeks £5 million (€5.96 million) from the government through its Cultural Development Fund. If given, the centre would train up a generation of writing talent in one of the country’s most deprived cities in the north-east, away from the cultural and economic centre of the country in London. ...
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Robert Towne, who's career spanned some of the biggest classics of the New Hollywood era of filmmaking, has died at the age of 89. His publicist Carri McClure says he died on Monday surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles. No cause of death has yet been revealed. Roger Corman, the independent filmmaker who was known as the “Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood” took Towne under his wing after he took Corman’s acting class, along with other future greats like Jack Nicholson. Towne wrote films for Corman before becoming a script doctor. Warren Beatty had Towne restructure the script ...
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Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and activist who has joined Ukraine's Armed Forces, suffered shrapnel wounds to his neck, chest, and ear, he said on July 2. This is Aseyev's second injury in recent months. In May, he suffered a concussion in combat in Donetsk Oblast. "A miracle happened to me again. This piece of shrapnel entered my neck, missed the artery, and got stuck in soft tissue," Aseyev wrote on X. "And a fragment that got into my chest did not penetrate the lung. Another one was pulled out of my ear," the writer-turned-soldier said, adding that he was doing "fine." A...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and activist who has joined Ukraine's Armed Forces, suffered shrapnel wounds to his neck, chest, and ear, he said on July 2. This is Aseyev's second injury in recent months. In May, he suffered a concussion in combat in Donetsk Oblast. "A miracle happened to me again. This piece of shrapnel entered my neck, missed the artery, and got stuck in soft tissue," Aseyev wrote on X. "And a fragment that got into my chest did not penetrate the lung. Another one was pulled out of my ear," the writer-turned-soldier said, adding that he was doing "fine." A...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and activist who has joined Ukraine's Armed Forces, suffered shrapnel wounds to his neck, chest, and ear, he said on July 2. This is Aseyev's second injury in recent months. In May, he suffered a concussion in combat in Donetsk Oblast. "A miracle happened to me again. This piece of shrapnel entered my neck, missed the artery, and got stuck in soft tissue," Aseyev wrote on X. "And a fragment that got into my chest did not penetrate the lung. Another one was pulled out of my ear," the writer-turned-soldier said, adding that he was doing "fine." A...
Kyiv Independent
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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With a tender kiss, George Orwell’s son made a quiet gesture to his father: in a way, the writer had finally come home. When Orwell fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, his division was poised to take the eastern city of Huesca. Confident of victory over the Nationalists, the generals promised the troops they would be drinking coffee in the city the next day, but it never came to pass. Now, almost 90 years after the writer of Homage to Catalonia nearly lost his life in the 1936-1939 war, his son Richard Blair has finally realised his father’s wish to make it to Huesca – symb...
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