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Lebanese author Fares Joachim, Asharq Al-Awsat
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Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Cartagena, Colombia in 1991. (Getty Images)
Marquez Biographer: He Wanted ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ to Be his First Novel
London – Gabriel Garcia Marquez always reminded people that he had become very poor by the time he completed writing “One Hundred years of Solitude”, his most famous work, in 1966. He was so poor that he did not have enough money to send the 590 pages of the book from...Caption:
Paula Fox offered closely observed portraits of loss and abandonment. It was terrain she knew all too well. Credit Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
Paula Fox: a Prize-winning US Literary Great
New York- With the death of Paula Fox, a distinguished writer for children and adults, in Brooklyn at the age of 93 last week, American literature lost an important figure. Ms. Fox wrote a half-dozen novels for adults and more than 20 books for young people. What...Caption:
Fernand Léger, 1919, The City (La Ville), oil on canvas.
The Movement that Changed Europe, the World
London – Hindawi Publishing Corporation issued a new book “Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction” by Christopher Butler, a critic and a former professor at Oxford University. The book – translated by Shaima Taha al-Ridi – is composed of four...Caption:
Tawfiq al-Hakim