Children’s books written by authors of color in 2020 increased by 3% to 26.8% compared with 2019. Children’s books written about racially diverse characters or subjects, however, grew by only 1% to 30%,
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To give a retrial to the man known as “Supreme Poet,” an Italian criminal lawyer has invited senior judges, prosecutors and fellow lawyers — plus the descendants of both Dante and the judge who banished him from Florence — to reopen the case at a May 21 conference.
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Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.
Read moreA federal court in North Carolina denied parents’ request for a restraining order to prevent their son’s school from including the novel “The Poet X” in its ninth grade language arts curriculum. The parents claim the book promotes hostility towards Catholicism. Questioning traditional religion is one of the topics of the book, “yet the same might be said of celebrated authors such as Chaucer, Voltaire, Paine, Twain, or Sinclair Lewis,” the court wrote.
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BEIJING, China (AFP) — The espionage case against detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun has reached a Beijing court, China’s foreign
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“It is lighting a candle in the dark,” says Fawzi al-Ghoudi in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa, of his initiative to reignite people’s interest in books, as an escape from the grimness of war.
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American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her “candid and uncompromising” work, which looks unflinchingly and with biting humor at loss and trauma, especially in family life.
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Starved of international visitors, the house once inhabited by writer Ernest Hemingway in the Florida Keys has struggled to stay open. Almost all of its staff have been laid off during the coronavirus pandemic, yet the six-toed cats who live there still attract locals to the site.
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The French translation of Agatha Christie’s mystery novel “And Then There Were None” will change its title to remove an offensive word which was already dropped from the British edition decades ago, broadcaster RTL reported Wednesday.
Read moreAn appeals court in California upheld the conviction of Blake Leibel, a graphic novelist who tortured and killed his fiancee in 2016. The victim, Iana Kasian, died of extreme blood loss after Leibel ripped apart her scalp. The lower court did not err in admitting into evidence one of Leibel’s graphic novels, the appeals court ruled.
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Pope Francis is denouncing the mafia and all those who are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to make money.
Read moreJohn Shen-Sampas, who says he is “the literary executor for the estate of Jack Kerouac and owns the copyright to all Jack Kerouac’s works,” sued the Northport-East Northport (N.Y.) Public Library for a handwritten manuscript and microfilm, in Suffolk County Court.
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Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile’s occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War.
Read moreNovelist Charles Portis, a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as “Norwood” and “Gringos” and a bounty for Hollywood whose droll, bloody Western “True Grit” was a bestseller twice adapted into Oscar-nominated films, died Monday at 86.
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A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102.
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French police on Thursday searched the home of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described relationships with young teens in his work, a source said.
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French writer Gabriel Matzneff said in an interview Wednesday that he “regrets” his trips to Asia to have sex with children, claiming that at the time “no one ever said it was a crime.”
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A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez has been recovered by a Dutch art detective after an international “race against time” that drew the alleged interest of Iran’s secret service.
Read moreChristopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, who edited and helped publish many of his father’s works, has died at 95, the Tolkien Society said.
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After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that’s been speculated about for decades.
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