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Norfolk Eastern Daily Press Norwich, England, named City of Literature Iowa City Press Citizen Norwich, England, has been named the sixth UNESCO City of Literature, joining Iowa City, Edinburgh, Scotland; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; and Reykjavik, Iceland. Norwich was selected because of its sensational literary past, from the first ... Arts Council England cash injection for Norwich cultureBBC News Arts Council England awards £240000 to both the Norfolk and Norwich Festival ...Norwich Evening News all 4 news articles »

Bloomberg Deaths elsewhere for May 17, 2012 Jamestown Sun The prolific Fuentes wrote his first novel, “Where the Air is Clear,” at age 29, laying the foundation for a boom in Spanish contemporary literature during the 1960s and 1970s. He published an essay on the change of power in France in the newspaper ... Writer Carlos Fuentes DiesHuffington Post (blog) Remembering the great author Carlos FuentesWorcester Telegram Carlos Fuentes' Intellectual Vision of Democracy Looms Over Mexico After the ...Highbrow Magazine NPR -Tico Times -Albany Times Union all 73 news articles »

Palestine: PalFest Literature Festival in Gaza for First Time Global Voices Online This year for the first time the Palestinian Festival of Literature, or PalFest, was held in Gaza. Since it was founded in 2008, the festival's aim has been to bring together Palestinian and international authors, and it organises public events in the ...

Telegraph.co.uk You can't be serious about Harry Potter! Telegraph.co.uk By Sarah Rainey In the 600-year-old halls of St Andrews University, a group of leading academics is discussing a piece of literature. Not just any old literature: this, they say, is “the narrative experience of an entire generation”. Harry Potter is great literature, say academicsScotsman Harry Potter goes to St Andrews UniversityFife Today Magically-minded scholars gather in St Andrews for Harry Potter conferencestv.tv BBC News all 20 news articles »