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    Eliud Kipchoge is writing a memoir(!) and other notable book deals of the week.

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    Albanian author Ismail Kadare has won the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

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    Literary Critic Harold Bloom has died at 89.

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    Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood share this year’s Booker Prize.

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    Read Olga Tokarczuk’s response to winning the Nobel Prize.

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    PEN America expresses “deep regret” over Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize.

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    The first ever dual Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

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    Rihanna: the only girl in the world whose memoir comes with a marble pedestal.

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