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National Book Award finalists announced - with an extra title [UPDATED]
Jacket CopyNational Book Award finalists include Manning Marable and Téa Obreht.... -
National Book Award finalists announced - with an extra title
Tribune NewspapersA deceased biographer and a first-time bestselling novelist are among the finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards. Five finalists in four categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature – were announced Wednesday...Tags: Malcolm X, Fiction, Adrienne Rich, Biography (genre), Awards and Prizes
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Book and author events
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Group Signing: Editor Jeff Gelb and contributors to the anthology "Dark Passions XIII" (Debbie Smith, Cody Goodfellow, Lisa Morton and Roberta Lannes), horror poet Maria Alexander ("At Louche Ends:...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Clubs and Associations, Awards and Prizes, FOX (tv network), Culture
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Saturday in L.A.: Peter Gizzi and the Poetic Research Bureau
Jacket CopyPoet Peter Gizzi reads Saturday at a gallery filled with art by Richard Kraft in a show that connects the artist and poet.... -
Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, in translation
Jacket CopyNobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer is well known in Sweden, but not it in the U.S., so several American publishers are making plans to get his books into searching hands.... -
Critic's Notebook: Tomas Tranströmer's spare, elegant genius
I was hoping for Bob Dylan. Briefly, on Wednesday afternoon, the singer was favored to win the Nobel Prize for literature by the British odds-maker Ladbrokes, which has handicapped the Nobels for many years. In second place was the Japanese novelist...Tags: Haruki Murakami, Arts, Fine Arts, Awards and Prizes, Bob Dylan
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Quick Takes: RCA closes subsidiaries
RCA Music Group is slimming down for the holidays by shuttering its Arista, Jive and J Records subsidiaries, a move by new label execs to strengthen the identity of the RCA brand. Artists who have been with those three imprints, which have been home to...Tags: Mario Lopez, Arts, The Playboy Club (tv program), Fine Arts, Edgar Allan Poe
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Dance review: 'more more more ... future' performed at REDCAT
Culture MonsterFaustin Linyekula's dance piece "more, more, more ... future" at REDCAT is reviewed by Laura Bleiberg for the Los Angeles Times... -
Sweden poet Tomas Transtromer awarded Nobel Prize in literature
With the prize announcement moments away and the phone resolutely silent, Tomas Transtromer figured that his chance for Nobel glory had slipped by once again.
As Sweden's most lauded poet and a perennial favorite for the literature prize, Transtromer was...Tags: Sweden, Philip Roth, Michael Ondaatje, England, Awards and Prizes
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Tomas Transtromer wins Nobel Prize in literature
Jacket CopyTomas Tranströmer is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in literature.... -
First drive: 2012 Porsche Cayman R
Money & CompanyKeats has his "Ode to a Nightingale." Pope has his "Ode on Solitude." And Porsche now has its "Ode to the Sports Car." Subtitle: "The Cayman R." Rolling some 244 miles onto the odometer of a $78,150 version recently demonstrated...... -
Swedish poet wins Nobel Prize in literature
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSwedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy said Tranströmer, 80, won "because, through his condensed, translucent images he gives us fresh access to reality." Tranströmer worked as a...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Literature
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