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Books: The translation was so good, I didn't notice it Patricia Duncker, one of the judges of the re-launched Independent Foreign Fiction prize, has spent a novel year in France, Iceland, Spain, Portugal...
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I HAVE an acute and desperate reading habit. I need books. I must
read. This year it hasn't given me any problems. I have had a feast
of extraordinary and beautiful books as one of the judges of the
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, re-launched this year with the
generous support of the Arts Council of England.
What constitutes a "foreign" work of fiction? For many friends in
London, the place where I live in West Wales is excessively foreign:
there is another culture and another lan...
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; Books -- so many to read, so little time. The most dedicated of us can plow through just a limited number in our lives. Here are the hard(cover) facts: A truly determined reader can get through perhaps two or three serious books a month, sandwiched between child care, work, sleep and the details of
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A Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read.
The Economist (US)
; ANYONE who has read that strange and haunting book, The Green Child , will know that there were powerful contradictions at work in its author. Herbert Read, early champion of Henry Moore, co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and stern agnostic was also the romantic nature-lover and
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Cricket: Numbers add up only to confusion over the Read choice HEADINGLEY FOCUS
The Independent on Sunday
; Chris Read was under no illusions. "There's always a certain amount of scrutiny," he said of his return as England's keeper. Not a certain amount. A lot, and it began in earnest at 4.35pm on Friday when Read came to the wicket because Kevin Pietersen got cramp. How did he stand up to it? He looked
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From Camden to Bangalore: the Hilary Clarke interview Martin Read, Logica's chief executive, has turned the software company into an international force
The Independent - London
; TO HIS STAFF Martin Read is the "wee man with the beard" to whom you go to get problems fixed. Read, 48, is also a linguist, an accountant, an actor and an activist for the homeless. And, as chief executive of one of the country's largest providers of software for industry - Logica - he is also
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Aliteracy: Read All About It, or Maybe Not; Millions of Americans Who Can Read Choose Not To. Can We Do Without the Written Word?
The Washington Post
; ... chooses not to. A graduate student in public affairs at Park University in Kansas City, Mo., Spreitzer, 25, gleans most of his news from TV. He skims required texts, draws themes from dust jackets and, when he absolutely, positively has to read something, reaches ...
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