Stories by much-acclaimed American writer, some just a sentence long, praised for vigilance 'down to the very word'The impossible-to-categorise Lydia Davis, known for the shortest of short stories, has won the Man Booker International prize ahead of fellow American Marilynne Robinson and eight other contenders from around the world.The £60,000 award is for a body of work, and is intended to...

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This year's prize has been won by the American author Lydia Davis.

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His best-selling novels illuminate the shadowy organisations that supposedly run the world. But Dan Brown was “honoured” to receive an invitation to join the Freemasons, the arcane fraternity whose tentacles are said to extend into the highest echelons of power.

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David R Morgan admits to passing numerous works by other people as his own and says he is 'truly sorry'The poetry community is searching its soul after another case of multiple plagiarism emerged over the weekend.Publishers and magazines have been working to take down poems and suspend sales of collections by David R Morgan after the American poet Charles O Hartman realised Morgan's poem...

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Daniel Dennett, a cheerleader for Darwin and atheism, attracts fierce criticism for his views on free will. He talks about his new book and explains why philosophers have to walk a tightropeBig thinkers make for big targets and they don't come much bigger, physically and intellectually, than . The tall, 71-year-old philosopher looks every inch the enthusiastic sailor he is, with his white beard...

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If a library in England wanted to collect, Keith Richards would have to pay thousands of dollars.

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Author discusses possibility of chemotherapy, as well as fan letters he's been sending to other writersIain Banks, who in April, has posted another update to fans, in which he ruminates on everything from his new car to the possibility of chemotherapy.The bestselling Scottish novelist has been the recipient of an outpouring of goodwill and support from his readers since he told them in early...

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Video: Dan Brown tells us how much to believe in his books, and how Dante's 'rings of hell' inspired new novel Inferno

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Lydia Davis, the shortest of all short story writers, whose works can be as brief as a single sentence, has won the fifth Man Booker International Prize.

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James Franco, whose Faulkner adaptation for the big-screen, “As I Lay Dying,” is playing at Cannes, discusses his love of Faulkner and his ability to handle multiple projects at once.

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