Nobel prize winning author Naguib Mahfouz dies
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the   only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,   died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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Francoise Sagan, the French novelist who penned &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot;, an anthem to disillusioned youth that became one of the best-known books of the 20th century, died aged 69, family friends said.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, known for his intellectual and emotional works about some of the worst cruelties of the 20th century, died Saturday, his assistant said. He was 93.
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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Roger Kornberg for work on protein synthesis.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan has died in the north-western town of Honfleur aged 69. She died of heart and lung failure a few days after being admitted to a local hospital.
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The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Oct. 12, the Swedish Academy said Friday, keeping the literay world guessing for nearly another week.Comment
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American intellectual and author Susan Sontag has died in New York at the age of 71. Her son, David Rieff, said the cause was complications stemming from acute myelogenous leukaemia, one of the deadliest forms of leukaemia.
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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The big-bang theory of the universe, microcredit and literature exploring Turkey's clash of cultures will be honored as six American scientists, a Bangladeshi economist and a Turkish novelist receive the Nobel ...Comment
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HIS MISSION in life was embodied in a slogan: Death to Israel. Now death has claimed Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Nobel
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An Austrian playwright and author has won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for literature. Elfriede Jelinek will go away with more than a million euros in prize money but also the massive kudos of winning a Nobel award
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who  rose from guerrilla icon to Nobel prize-winning peacemaker only  to fall into isolation amid new violence with Israel, died in a  French hospital on Thursday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Arif Ali, regional product director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for The Associated Press, died of cancer at his home Thursday. He was 46.
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Said Sonbol, a veteran columnist and former editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, one of Egypt's leading daily newspapers, has died. He was 75.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the prize.
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Legendary author Sidney Sheldon has died from pneumonia, his publicist told AFP, after a prolific career that saw him pen Oscar-winning screenplays and sell over 300 million books. He was 89.