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(Encyclopedia) Booker Prize, an award of £50,000 (originally £5,000) for the best novel of the year published in English in Great Britain; prior to 2014, it was only given to a British, Irish, or…The eXistenZ of Life
A Talk With Director David Cronenberg by Alicia Potter Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Cronenberg's eXistenZ. "Card-carrying existentialist" Cronenberg has consistently stayed out of…Top 100 Works in World Literature
Source: Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2002. The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54…The Top Ten: Top Public Intellectuals
December 10 - 17 Top Public Intellectuals Rank Name Occupation Country 1. Noam Chomsky Linguist, author,…Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is the Indian-American writer whose novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) won the Man Booker Prize and the fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle. The daughter of novelist…Biographies: 2008 People in the News
2008 People in the News See also 2007 People in the News 2006 People in the News 2005 People in the News 2004 People in the News 2003 People…Russell Banks Biography
Russell BankswriterBorn: 3/28/1940Birthplace: Newton, Mass. Banks's hardscrabble working-class childhood in New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts has played a major role in shaping his writing. The…Mohammed bin Salman
(Encyclopedia) Mohammed bin Salman, 1985–, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, b. Riyadh. The son of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, he received a law degree from King Saud Univ. (2007) and then worked in…The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century
The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House, published its selections in July 1998. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) A Portrait of the…The Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals
Who are the world's leading public intellectuals? The October 2005 cover of Prospect Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect magazine selected their top 100, and invited readers to vote…Trending
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