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 Golden-voiced Ted Williams shares highs and lows The world watched Ted Williams skyrocket to fame, but the "man with the golden voice" soon crashed back to earth. Williams tells CBC News how he survived both misfortune and fame.
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 Lobster, moose and bagel deliver charter lessons A P.E.I. lawyer is finishing up a children's book series on Canada's Charter of Rights with some help from a New Brunswick lobster, a Montreal bagel, a Saskatchewan moose, and Anne of Green Tomatoes.
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 Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies Prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City, according to Mexico's cultural agency. He was 83.
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 Kirk Douglas memoir, Truman Capote make e-book debuts The burgeoning e-book format has gained some major star power, with the work of Truman Capote and a forthcoming Kirk Douglas memoir set to be published digitally.
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 Esi Edugyan, Charlotte Gill win B.C. Book Prizes West Coast authors Esi Edugyan and Charlotte Gill won further acclaim on the weekend, with the two writers among the latest recipients of the B.C. Book Prizes.
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 Erotic romance author E.L. James on Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, the fledgling British writer behind the surprise publishing phenomenon and erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey, talks to Q about her 'love story with a kink.'
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 Johanna Skibsrud a finalist for short story prize Johanna Skibsrud, the Giller-winner for her debut novel The Sentimentalists, is nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her first short story collection.
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 David Bezmozgis, David Gilmour up for Trillium Prize David Gilmour's The Perfect Order of Things and David Bezmozgis' The Free World are among the finalists for the Trillium Prize, an Ontario award for fiction or poetry.
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 Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak dies Children's author Maurice Sendak, the man behind the children's classic Where the Wild Things Are, has died in Connecticut.
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 Aislin inducted into cartooning hall of fame Terry Mosher, aka Aislin, was feted at the Doug Wright Awards in Toronto for more than four decades of creating provocative, pointed and entertaining political cartoons.
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 Aislin, Kate Beaton honoured at cartooning awards Kate Beaton, known for her witty comics about historical and literary figures, and editorial cartoonist Aislin have been honoured at the Doug Wright Award for Canadian cartooning.
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 Unseen draft pages of The Little Prince slated for sale Two fragile, handwritten draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exup
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 Vancouver woman wins prize for emerging writers A 28-year-old emerging writer from Vancouver has won the $5,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for her short-story Elk-Headed Man.
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 Donner Prize winner examines power of PMO A book that argues that Canadian democracy is threatened by the growing power of the Prime Minister's Office has won the $50,000 Donner Prize for the best public policy book in Canada.
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 Northrop Frye festival draws authors to Moncton Many of Canada's best-known authors, including David Gilmour and Antonine Maillet, are in Moncton to take part in the Frye Festival this weekend.
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 David Bezmozgis's The Free World wins First Novel Award David Bezmozgis has won the Amazon First Novel Award for his multigenerational tale The Free World, about three generations of Russian Jews who seek new lives in the West.
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Sir John A. Macdonald bio wins political writing prize Richard Gwyn has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times published by Random House Canada.
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 Theo Fleury story takes to Calgary stage Actor Shaun Smyth spends two hours on ice in a Calgary theatre while playing Theo Fleury in a production of Playing with Fire, based on the bestselling memoir of the former NHLer whose complex life has seen him win a Stanley Cup while battling his personal demons.
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 Bernie Finkelstein looks back In True North: My Life in the Music Business, Bernie Finkelstein recalls the songs, artists and fights over Canadian content that made him into a force of the Canadian music scene.
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 Johanna Skibsrud up for Commonwealth Prize Johanna Skibsrud's Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel The Sentimentalists is one of three Canadian titles on the short list for this year's Commonwealth Book Prize.
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 Tim Wynne Jones, Kit Pearson vie for children's lit awards Canada's most accomplished writers of children's fiction, among them Kit Pearson and Tim Wynne-Jones, have been nominated for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards.
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 Richard Gwyn wins prize for John A. Macdonald bio Richard J. Gwyn has won the $10,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times published by Random House Canada.
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 Tolkien and Dickens heirs team up for children's tale Descendants of J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Dickens are working together to release two children's fantasy books, in a project that should be completed later this year.
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 Poets of every nation head to London Poetry Parnassus Karen Solie, a Toronto-based poet who won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2010 for Pigeon, is to represent Canada at a Poetry Parnassus being planned in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics.
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 British Library pays $14.3M for Cuthbert Gospel The British Library has paid
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