US author Dave Eggers wins prestigious French literary prize
Paris - American author Dave Egger's novel What Is the What has won the 2009 Prix Medicis for best foreign work of fiction, the Medici jury announced Wednesday. A fictional reworking of a true story told to the author by the book's hero, What Is the ...
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2009-11-04 ] Category : [
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OBITUARY: Jean Francois Bergier, Swiss WWII historian, dead at 77
Geneva - Jean-Francois Bergier, the Swiss historian who headed the independent commission established in the 1990s to determine Switzerland's role during World War II, died Thursday at the age of 77, RSR radio reported. The independent group of exper...
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2009-10-29 ] Category : [
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Putin to recount memories of fall of Berlin Wall in documentary
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was working in East Germany in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, is to recount his experiences of that time in a new documentary, reported Russian newspaper Kommersant Wednesday. Putin was based in th...
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2009-10-28 ] Category : [
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Taiwan museum sets condition for showing Chinese treasures in Japan
Taipei - Taiwan on Tuesday said it is willing to allow the National Palace Museum (NPM) to hold an exhibition in Japan, but it must guarantee that the rare Chinese treasures are not seized by China. Chen Tiao-ho, a Foreign Ministry official in charge...
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2009-10-27 ] Category : [
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Jewish treasures go on display in one of Europe's oldest synagogues
Erfurt, Germany - The old synagogue in the eastern German city of Erfurt, founded around the year 1100, was officially opened as a museum housing Jewish treasure and artefacts on Monday. The Jewish house of worship, constructed near the town hall in ...
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2009-10-26 ] Category : [
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Rejuvenated or infantilized? - the debate over cross-over books
Hamburg - It is increasingly becoming regarded as cool and youthful for an over 40-year-old to read a fantasy novel aimed at the teenager market. Whether it is the vampire Edward in the Stephanie Meyers series or the Inkworld trilogy from Cornelia Fu...
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2009-10-22 ] Category : [
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Cultural interpreter opens minds about other religions, people
Hamburg - Ayhan Cantay calls himself a culture opener. The job he does in a public school district in Hamburg, Germany might be more accurately described as cultural interpreter. Who among you knows Christianity? Cantay, 31, asks a classroom of ...
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2009-10-22 ] Category : [
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The Sacred Made Real - Spanish religious art seen anew - Feature
London - When 17th century Spanish sculptor Gregorio Fernandez created his life-like sculpture Dead Christ, he is reported to have intended that the work should shock and stir the soul. The haunting figure, depicting Christ's body as it is prepared ...
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2009-10-22 ] Category : [
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Nostalgia drives comeback for Communist-era hits - Feature
Warsaw - Many Communist-era products disappeared from store shelves in Eastern Europe post 1989, unable to compete with Western imports after the Iron Curtain fell. But others have survived, and some have even managed to thrive in the past two decade...
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2009-10-21 ] Category : [
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Chinese dissidents watched Europe pick up their movement - Feature
Beijing - The fall of the Berlin Wall told the world what a beautiful country meant, what freedom and democracy meant, says Chinese dissident Qi Zhiyong, comparing the events of Eastern Europe in 1989 with those of China that same year through the ...
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2009-10-21 ] Category : [
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