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The Hollywood studio behind a film based on "The Hobbit" and trustees for author J.R.R. Tolkien's estate said they had settled a lawsuit that clears the way for what is expected to be a blockbuster movie based on the book.
"The Hobbit" is a 1937 book by Tolkien about a diminutive character named Bilbo Baggins who goes on a treasure-seeking adventure, and it sets...
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The former head of Invest Hong Kong, Mike Rowse, says in a just-published book that in 2003 he warned the then-chief secretary Donald Tsang to steer clear of the HarbourFest controversy as it threatened to become "very nasty." Mr Rowse writes that at the time, the row surrounding the HK$100-million series of big-name concerts was becoming entangled in speculation...
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The US book seller Barnes & Noble has launched what it bills as the world's largest online electronic book shop with virtual shelves holding more than 700,000 titles. The company is challenging online retail powerhouse Amazon.com with electronic works readable on an array of platforms, including computers, iPod Touch MP3 players, and iPhone and BlackBerry smart...
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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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A prominent mainland dissident writer says police have threatened him with a long prison-sentence if he goes ahead with publication of a book critical of the prime minister, Wen Jiabao.
The writer, Yu Jie, said he was detained and questioned by plainclothes agents for four hours in Beijing on Monday and told that criticising Mr Wen would endanger national...
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The former British prime minister, Tony Blair, is to donate the profits from his memoirs to a sports centre for injured soldiers. A spokesman said Mr Blair would hand over the reported four million pounds advance payment plus all royalties to honour "their courage and sacrifice".
The Royal British Legion will receive the money after the book, A Journey, is...
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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.
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The Belgrade-born writer, Tea Obreht, has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel "The Tiger's Wife".
At 25, she is the youngest author ever to win the prestigious prize, which is open to any novel by a woman published in English.
The book tells the story of a young doctor in the aftermath of the civil wars that led to the break up of...
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A book chronicling the famine that killed some 45-million Chinese people under the rule of Chairman Mao has been awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction, one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes.
"Mao's Great Famine" by Frank Dikotter details the effects of the Great Leap Forward -- Chairman Mao's rush to turn China into an industrial...
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The author Salman Rushdie has pulled out of a literature festival in India.
The writer said he had been warned by intelligence sources that people might have been paid to assassinate him there.
Some Indian Muslim groups had said he should be barred from the festival because of the 20-year-old controversy over his novel the Satanic Verses - which the late...
