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  Stephen Cunningham

  

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  William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

  openculture.com - OC

  In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs in the American literary scene were William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Both were internationally …

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  Stephen Cunningham

  

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  Mexico: Mario Vargas Llosa, author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89

  StringersHub

  Guadalajara, Mexico - November 27, 2016 Video: Vargas Llosa at FIL Guadalajara 2016 (archive) Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won myriad prizes. The Nobel committee said it was awarding him in 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” “It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,” read a letter signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, and posted by Álvaro on X. “His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we hope that they will find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him,” they added.

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  Stephen Cunningham

  

  Announcing The 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists

  pen.org - egalluscio

  PEN America is honored to announce the Finalists for the 2025 Literary Awards. Our awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, …

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  Stephen Cunningham

  

  2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist

  locusmag.com

  The six-title shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced, with works of genre interest including On the Calculation of …

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  Stephen Cunningham

  

  What Is Kafkaesque?: The Philosophy of Franz Kafka

  openculture.com - Colin Marshall

  It’s difficult to imagine that there was ever a time without the word “Kafkaesque.” Yet the term would have meant nothing at all to anyone alive at …

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  Stephen Cunningham

  

  A Bombshell New Study Suggests Shakespeare May Not Have Written 15 of His Famous Plays

  Popular Mechanics - Michael Natale

  The “Anti-Stratfordians” are putting their faith in an AI authorship test. William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the centuries since they debuted, …