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Game of Thrones author gives fans the finger

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Fans of George RR Martin's books want to know if he'll live long enough to give them an end to the series, a question he finds pretty offensive.

Wronged writers grind their axes

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"Amazon has done more to liberate readers and writers than any other entity since Gutenberg," states a petition in the war on book selling.

Drugs, nudity and bigotry restored to F Scott Fitzgerald’s stories

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Censored material removed from a collection of F Scott Fitzgerald's short stories is being restored in a new edition of the author's work.

Pulitzer prize for fiction goes to ‘The Goldfinch’

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Donna Tartt's huge book, 11 years in the writing, wins the honour for "beautifully written ... novel with exquisitely drawn characters".

‘Gone With the Wind’ prequel to tell Mammy’s story

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Author Donald McCaig's upcoming novel - billed as a prequel to "Gone With the Wind" - is set to tell the untold story of devoted house slave Mammy.

Murderer’s crime novel wins literary award

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"Cuts Through Bone", the book by convicted murderer Alaric Hunt who has been jailed since the 1980s, has won a $10 000 prize and a publishing deal.

Tom Sharpe, British comic novelist, dies age 85

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Author of "Porterhouse Blue" and "Wilt" novels has died at home in Catalonia, from complications related to diabetes.

Syrian wins ‘writer of courage’ prize

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Samar Yazbek was named by British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy as international "writer of courage" with whom she will share the Pen/Pinter prize.

King of horror returns to old-school publishing

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Stephen King's digital publication of "Riding the Bullet" in 2000 made him one of the pioneers of the e-book movement.

Pink Lantern gets the green light

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After 72 years of tackling supervillains as a straight man, DC Comics' Green Lantern, one of the oldest characters, is to be reintroduced as gay.

‘Let’s have Bateman kill David Beckham in a lift’

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Brett Easton Ellis is mulling a sequel to <i>American Psycho</i> in which Patrick Bateman murders David Beckham and analyses Whitney Houston's oeuvre.

Nobel committee defends another European choice

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The Swedish Academy has responded to accusations of insularity in recent years by awarding the 2011 Nobel prize for literature to one of their own.
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