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Pulitzer Prize winners

The winners include the play Wit by Margarert Edson and Michael Cunningham's The Hours

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Philip Gourevitch interview

The journalist talks about his book about the Rwandan genocide

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Bessie and Sadie Delaney

The remarkable American sisters whose story is told in US TV drama Having our Say

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Marianne Wiggins interview

The American writer talks about the central role of weather in her novel Almost Heaven

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Havana, Cuba

The disinctive music, literature and culture of the Cuban capital

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Vladimir Nabokov

A celebration of the world-class Russian-American writer

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Peter Porter interview

As he celebrates his 70th birthday, the Australian poet talks about his life and work

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Tokyo Book Fair

What the Japanese are reading in 1999: fairy tales and fantasies - and a lot of manga

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Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Why should writers from such a large cultural range be judged together?

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Catherine Cookson

The life of the English writer who wrote a novel almost every six months

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Tony Awards

Classic plays dominate the nominations for the American drama awards

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Fred Astaire

A profile of the legendary American dancer and actor

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Contemporary painting

Is it as exciting as other, newer, conceptual art forms?

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The Orange Prize for Fiction

The all-female line-up for the prize is reviewed by The Times' Literary Editor Eric Wagner

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Remembering Bruce Chatwin

Life and work of English novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin

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A First Novel takes top Literary Prize

English author Andrew Miller has won a $150,000 literary prize with his first novel

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Applause for Asian films at Cannes Festival

This might be the "best year ever" for Asian films at the Cannes Film Festival

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Salman Rushdie – Shaking up Myth and Time

Salman Rushdie talks about his new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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A History of the Superhero

Exploring the history and popularity of comics, focusing on Batman and Superman

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Nelson Mandela – a new Biography

New biography of Nelson Mandela by Anthony Sampson

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Sweden wins the Eurovision Song Contest – again

Charlotte Nilsson wins the Eurovision song contest for Sweden

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Hillary's View from the Summit

Sir Edmund Hillary on how you follow the conquest of Mt Everest?

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Celebrating Alexander Pushkin's 200th Birthday

Celebrating the bicentenary of Alexander Pushkin, romantic Russian poet and novelist

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Is there enough Chemistry in 'Instinct'?

Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr star in John Turteltaub's new film, Instinct

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What are Russians reading now?

Why Russian literature is in a state of flux – and how reading habits have changed

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Hannibal Lecter is on the loose again

Hannibal is the third in by Thomas Harris's series about the cannibal psychopath

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Amos Oz on the Art of Beginning

Amos Oz talks about his intriguing new book of literary criticism, The Story Begins

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Ralph Ellison, Visible Man

Life and work of writer Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man about black American life

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Protest to protect local Films in South Korea

South Korean film-makers protest at American pressure to phase out the quota system

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Welcome to the Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale opens with Bhuddist drumming, video wanderings and white mist…

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