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Sunday, October 09, 2011

Nobel Prize for Literature

Stories from The Independent:


  • Nobel literature prize for poet unable to speak for the last two decades

  • The Poet Laureate, the ode to an Achilles and a pair of Beckham's boots

  • Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer awarded Nobel Prize
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