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Reykjavík Aims to Become UNESCO City of Literature

Tourists have perished on the hike from Landmannalaugar to Thórsmörk due to sudden changes in weather, does that deserve a sign? more Click on the picture to watch this video of Tjörnin, or the Pond, a shallow lake in the center of Reykjavík.

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Old Hu-Hu Takes Out Top Kids’ Literature Prize

Central Otago writer, Kyle Mewburn and Wellington illustrator, Rachel Driscoll have won the country’s highest accolade in children’s literature, the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award for their picture book, Old Hu-Hu.

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Old Hu-Hu Takes Out Top Kids’ Literature Prize

Central Otago writer, Kyle Mewburn and Wellington illustrator, Rachel Driscoll have won the country’s highest accolade in children’s literature, the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award for their picture book, Old Hu-Hu.

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John Carey: Golding biography

Critic, reviewer, broadcaster and professor of literature at Oxford University John Carey on his biography of William Golding, creator of Lord of the Flies

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Plays - second class literature?

A quick blurt, for those who think the artform that’s inspired lacklustre talent like Shakespeare, Ibsen, Churchill, Beckett, Brecht, Chekhov, Bernhardt, Buchner - oh, you get the picture - isn’t proper literature.Black clouds are swirling over the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, which this year didn’t award a Play Prize, supposedly because of the low quality of the entries. And how quickly it’s

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Viewpoints: English teacher tossed student a lifeline, ignited love of literature

One of President Barack Obama ’s consistent education themes has been the wish that every child cross paths with that one teacher who hits the light switch and changes one’s life.

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Review of Curious George exhibit at Jewish Museum (The Record and Herald News)

Curious George, the impish monkey who is always getting in trouble, made his picture-book debut in 1941. Today that book is in its 71st printing, and George is one of the classic characters of children’s literature.

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Classic literature can take whatever we throw at it (Guardian Unlimited)

I saw a bus, in front of the British Library , with an advert for the forthcoming Dorian Gray film plastered all over it. I’m not necessarily saying it will be bad, but the horror movie look of the poster, with Dorian Gray written in dramatic silver typeface, suggests this adaptation of Oscar Wilde ’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray will have the same hyperbolic qualities as the film adaptation …

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‘1984’ + 60 (Jewish World Review)

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | 1984 opens with one of the most famous first lines in modern English literature — the vaguely unnerving “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

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Icelandic Children’s Literature Celebrated in New York (Iceland Review)

Unlike in my native Germany, women in Iceland rarely have to choose between having kids and having a career. I hope it stays that way! more Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow about a daytrip to Vík, the southernmost village of the Icelandic mainland.

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