Portuguese Nobel laureate Saramago to launch new book in October
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Portuguese author Jose Saramago, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, is to launch a new novel in October of next year, his publisher said.
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AKZO Nobel, the Dutch chemicals group, said yesterday it will start bookbuilding for the flotation of its Organon BioSciences drugs unit on Monday and expects share trading to start on March 27.
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Placido Domingo is writing "The Joy of Opera," a book to be published in 2009, in which the renowned tenor will offer insights into masterpieces and what makes a singer great.
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The Louvre has invited Toni Morrison, the most recent American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, to lead a ÂconversationÂ among the arts around a theme of her choice.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus helped launch a pop music record and video on Tuesday that will raise money to build eye hospitals in Bangladesh.
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Oscar Hijuelos is writing a companion novel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" and also plans a memoir that will include his encounters with such musicians as Ruben Blades and Lou Reed.
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Speculation grows ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Speculation grows ahead of the announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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OSLO -- Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said yesterday the prize has given momentum to his cherished program of helping the poor through small loans, bringing him a flood of e-mails and invitations to meet with world leaders.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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An international team of scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new human genetic map, or "book of life," that fills in missing pages and chapters to explain how genes are involved in common diseases.
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A new book by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, called "GIVING: How Each of Us Can Change the World," will go on sale in September, the publisher announced on Tuesday.
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A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer &#151; his first novel in 10 years &#151; will be released in January, his publisher announced Friday.
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The 2004 Nobel prizes will be announced between October 4 and 11, the Nobel Foundation said, with US president George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the running for the prestigious Peace Prize.
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A book by leading authors to raise money to combat Aids is to be launched ahead of World Aids Day.
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Placido Domingo is writing "The Joy of  Opera," a book to be published in 2009, in which the renowned  tenor will offer insights into masterpieces and what makes a  singer great.
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Two important new books help understand why Venezuela's leftist president is considered both a national hero  and a flawed demagogue