CNN — Famed author Salman Rushdie is recovering at a hospital after he was repeatedly stabbed on stage Friday in front of a New York audience in an attack that left him with severe injuries, his family said. The family of the 75-year-old author – who has for decades lived under threat because of his writings – said he …
Milan Kundera was a fierce critic of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and his books were banned there for years Milan Kundera, one of the biggest names in European literature in recent decades, has died in Paris aged 94. His best-known work was his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Anna Mrazova, a spokeswoman …
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Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been hospitalized in Madrid with Covid-19, his son said Monday. “In light of the interest by the news media in our father’s health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19,” Alvaro Vargas Llosa tweeted on behalf of himself and his siblings, Gonzalo …
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Author Jerry Jenkins, whose “Left Behind” novels sold more than 80 million copies, goes back to biblical themes with “Dead Sea Conspiracy,” releasing Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (Image courtesy of Jerry Jenkins Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the megaselling “Left Behind” series of apocalyptic novels, expresses a firm belief in his evangelical faith — and in …
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