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The Literary Life
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WHILE PLENTY of novels by French and German authors are translated
into English, works of non-fiction by their fellow countrymen are
generally ignored - unless they concern the Nazis or sex.
In the past couple of years Gallimard, for example, the venerable
French publisher, has had great home-grown success with biographies
of General de Gaulle (by Eric Roussel) and Jean Cocteau (by Claude
Arnaud), that were both published in the Broche imprint. Although
considered definitive works, neither has
found a British publisher.
Why should this
be so?
"French and German non-fiction is written in a ...
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SA: Adelaide claims Nobel Prize winning author as one of its own
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia)
; ...fourth person associated with the university to win a Nobel Prize. Former university staffer Sir William Henry Bragg and his son Sir William Lawrence Bragg, a university graduate, were awarded a Nobel Prize in 1915 for pioneering x-ray work...
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Proton beam therapy subject of renewed radiosurgical interest.
Newspaper article from: Medical Device Daily
; ...surrounding tissues. Fortunately, Sir William Henry Bragg had already spelled out this peak...was the first to use the proton Bragg peak? to treat pituitary adenomas...apparently came to naught. ?Behind the Bragg peak, there?s a rapid dose fall...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Gottfried Klopstock, poet, 1724; Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian prime minister, 1821; Sir William Henry Bragg, physicist, 1862; Herman Hesse...and founder of homoeopathy, 1843; Sir Robert Peel, statesman, 1850...
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Obituary: Sir Gordon Cox
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Sir Gordon Cox was one of the...He was the son of Ernest Henry Cox, a man of varied occupations...given a sound foundation by Sir William Bragg and his son Lawrence, for...stimulated by his older colleague William Wardlaw, Cox elucidated how...
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In This WEEK.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...The photograph of William Pettit, wanted for...Heston, actor, 77; Sir Terence Conran...26. SATURDAY 1536 William Tyndale, English...s Rocket. 1895 Sir Henry Wood's Promenade...commentator, 71; Melvyn Bragg, broadcaster, 62...
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Now and then
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Concerts were founded by Sir Henry Wood. 1927: The first...70; Lord (Melvyn) Bragg of Wigton, broadcaster...champion. Deaths: 1536 William Tyndale, religious reformer...prime minister; 1951 William Kellogg, breakfast cereal...
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Thursday, July 2
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Willibald von Gluck, German composer (1714-1787); Sir William Bragg, British scientist and Nobel laureate (1862-1942...For Today: The soul has more diseases than the body _ Henry Wheeler Shaw, U.S. author (1818-1885).
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." - Sir William Bragg. "Freedom of the press is limit
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Tuesday, July 2
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Willibald von Gluck, German composer (1714-1787); Sir William Bragg, British scientist and Nobel laureate (1862-1942...For Today: The soul has more diseases than the body _ Henry Wheeler Shaw, U.S. author (1818-1885).
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Obituary: Bernard Wheeler Robinson
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...He was the son of the distinguished Baptist theologian Henry Wheeler Robinson, but his own unquenchable search for...Cavendish Laboratory, and then spent nine years under Sir William Bragg at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution...
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