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The American author, J D Salinger, has died at home in New Hampshire at the age of ninety-one. His son said he died of natural causes. The reclusive writer won lasting international fame with his novel "The Catcher in the Rye" which appeared in 1951. But in later life he became recluse and published no works after 1965.
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The best-selling British thriller writer and former jockey Dick Francis has died in his home in the Cayman Islands. He was 89. Francis was the author of 42 novels. He was also a successful jockey, winning over 350 races. He retired from racing in 1957 and took up writing, first as a racing correspondent for Britain's Sunday Express newspaper. He began writing novels...
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Donald Tsang, our Chief Executive was interviewed by TDC to talk about his reading life ahead of the HK Book fairs held in 22-28 July.
Mr Tsang said he loves reading as it stimulates his mind and emotions, and finds burying his head in a good book a great way to lose himself.
Recently he has been reading Wu Xiaobo's The Great Failure (大敗局),...
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The Hong Kong Trade Development Council organised the 20th Hong Kong Book Fair from 22 July till 28 July 2009. It resulted in a record high of 900,000 people attending the seven-day event.
During the book fair, the HKTDC was conducting a survey to track track changes in the reading habits of Hong Kong people. They found that:
1) about 60 per cent of Hong Kong...
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The Chinese author behind the Oscar-nominated film "Raise the Red Lantern" has won a major Asian literary prize with his latest novel, set during the Cultural Revolution. Su Tong's "The Boat to Redemption" was awarded the third-annual Man Asian Literary Prize, which is open to novels from the region that have not yet been published in English. The story is about a...
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Chinese author Mian Mian, who rose to fame with tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, will sue Internet giant Google this week for copyright infringement, her lawyer said.
Sun Jingwei said the case - the first civil lawsuit against Google in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library - would open at a Beijing court on...
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More than 90 Australian authors have signed a letter protesting against China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated novelists because he was HIV-positive.
Robert Dessaix, whose 1996 novel "Night Letters" dealt with the European travels of a man diagnosed with an incurable disease, was refused permission to attend the International...
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The British writer Alan Sillitoe has died in hospital in London. He was 82.
Alan Sillitoe was one of a group of British writers working in the 1950s who came to be known as the "angry young men."
His novels, including "Saturday Night And Sunday Morning," and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" were celebrated for their gritty depictions of British...
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The Peruvian author, Mario Vargas Llosa, has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. Mr Vargas Llosa, who's 74, is one of Latin America's most popular literary figures. He came to prominence in the 1960's with novels such as The Time of the Hero and Conversation in the Cathedral.
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The British author, Howard Jacobson, has won this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Finkler Question. The announcement was made at a ceremony in London. The prize is worth about US$80,000. The book's main themes are said to be ageing and death and what it means to be Jewish.
