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French novelist, memoirist Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize for Literature

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory", the award-giving body said on Thursday.

France 24

Nobel prize in literature 2022: French author Annie Ernaux announced as winner – as it happened

French writer wins for ‘courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory’

The Guardian - UK

Nobel panel to announce winner of literature prize

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm

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Salman Rushdie among favourites for this year’s Nobel prize for literature

The novelist, who was stabbed earlier this year as he was about to give a public lecture, is highly placed by bookmakers to win this year’s award

The Guardian - UK

Nobel Prize Season Arrives amid War, Nuclear Fears, Hunger

This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. It's anyone's guess…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nobel Prize season arrives amid war, nuclear fears, hunger

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster

The Independent UK

JK Rowling 'Twitter threat' faces no further action, Police Scotland confirm

The incident occurred on Friday August 12 after she reacted to the news of fellow author Salman Rushdie being stabbed in New York.

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Police drop investigation into ‘online threat’ made to JK Rowling over support for Sir Salman Rushdie

The threat was made from outside the UK, a spokesperson for Police Scotland said

Manchester Evening News

Police drop investigation into 'online threat' made to JK Rowling after Salman Rushdie support

A police investigation into an 'online threat' made to Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she supported Salman Rushdie in the wake of his stabbing, has been dropped

Daily Mirror

JK Rowling: Police drop investigation into ‘online threat’ made to Harry Potter author

Author shared screenshots of a message from a user who had written ‘don’t worry you are next’ in response to her tweet about Salman Rushdie

The Independent UK

Police drop investigation into ‘online threat’ made to JK Rowling

The author shared screenshots of a message from a user who had written ‘don’t worry you are next’ in response to her tweet about Sir Salman Rushdie.

The Independent UK

Philip Pullman calls for inquiry into writers’ trade union the Society of Authors

The writer, president of the SoA for nine years before he stood down in March, claims the organisation needs ‘investigation from outside’

The Guardian - UK

Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

Chicago Tribune

What links Jean Rhys to Salman Rushdie? The Saturday quiz

From americium to cli-fi, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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The Independent UK

Witness protection order in Sir Salman Rushdie case to be discussed next week

The writer’s alleged attacker, Hadi Matar, appeared at Chautauqua County Court in New York state for a fifth time on Friday.

The Independent UK

US considering Iran sanctions over Salman Rushdie attack

American officials weigh fresh sanctions as prospects of nuclear deal revival fade

The Independent UK

Request for witness protection order made in Sir Salman Rushdie attacker case

District attorney Jason Schmidt wants to keep the identities of potential witnesses secret.

The Guardian - UK

Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

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The Independent UK

Prosecutors in Rushdie attack want delay to review evidence

The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors say they need more time to review it

Salon

Authors attacked like Salman Rushdie

"Satanic Verses" wasn't the first novel to provoke a fanatic who has no grasp of literature's nuances

The Guardian - UK

Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’

The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’

WEKU

Chautauqua Institution re-examines security after Salman Rushdie attack

When the author was attacked earlier this month, he was taking the stage at New York's Chautauqua Institution. The storied place in American cultural life is now rethinking how open it should be.

The Guardian - UK

Leïla Slimani: ‘Attack on Salman Rushdie shows why we must not censor ourselves’

The bestselling author fears she too could be a target but says terrorists cannot be allowed to win

Reason

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses Enraged the Muslim World

In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the author and those involved in the book's publication to be put to death.

Daily Mirror

Ricky Gervais bans ice from his shows as comic says sound ruins the flow of stand-up

The Office creator bolstered his security detail to protect him while he tests new material at the Soho theatre after fellow comedian Dave Chappelle and author Salman Rushdie were both attacked on stage

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