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Ted Hughes’s brother to publish memoir
From boy to bard … Ted Hughes’s upbringing in Yorkshire, which provided the natural material for his poetry, will feature in a memoir by his brother Gerald. Photograph: Jane Bown Ted Hughes’s 92-year-old brother, Gerald, is writing a memoir about the two boys’ country upbringing, which will show…
Henwood and Rutherford join PPC board
Rod Henwood and Alan Rutherford have joined the board of th Picture Production Company, which makes film trailers. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Rod Henwood, the man behind Channel 4′s 4oD TV service and the launch of JK Rowling’s Pottermore digital project, and Unilever’s former global media…
Orange prize 2012: Cynthia Ozick installed as favourite to win
Cynthia Ozick is shortlisted for her seventh novel, Foreign Bodies. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Cynthia Ozick celebrated her 84th birthday on Tuesday and news that her seventh novel, Foreign Bodies, has been shortlisted for the 17th Orange prize for excellence in fiction written by women. She admitted, however,…
Poetry Parnassus to gather poets from every Olympic nation
Madagascan poets come forth … Poetry Parnassus is still looking for poets from around the world to attend the event. Photograph: Gregoire Pourtier/AFP/Getty Images From Ireland’s Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney to Kim Jong-il’s exiled former court poet Jang Jin Seong, hundreds of poets from around the world are…
Pulitzers 2012: prize for fiction withheld for first time in 35 years
David Foster Wallace’s posthumously completed novel The Pale King was among three works in line for the 2012 Pulitzer prize. Photograph: Gary Hannabarger/Gary Hannabarger/Corbis The best American novel of the last year? There wasn’t one, according to the judges of this year’s Pulitzer prize for fiction, who announced…
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