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10.02.2009 3:37 pm

Rushdie receives STL lit award Wednesday

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie joins a long list of internationally respected writers when he comes to St. Louis Wednesday to receive the St. Louis Literary Award.

There is a story in Sunday’s A&E section (Oct. 4) about what Rushdie is up to, but there…

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07.10.2009 3:19 pm

Two Missouri writers honored for history books

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Two Missouri authors have been honored for their books involving history.

Harper Barnes won a The Truth About the Fact Award for “Never Been a Time,” an account of the 1917 East St. Louis race riot.

The award is given by The…

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01.22.2009 4:15 pm

Who will win children’s book awards?

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

As lovers of children’s literature know, it’s almost time for the annual Caldecott and Newbery (and other) top book awards to be announced.

A guest blogger, Sue Bradford Edwards, writes here about the recent gossip about - and contenders for -…

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10.01.2008 4:50 pm

U.S. writers dissed by Nobel Prize secretary as awards near

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

I came across this wire story from the Associated Press. Incredibly, the ‘top member’ of the Nobel Prize award jury implies that American writers aren’t up to snuff. (Of course many people believe the Nobel Prize for literature is based more…

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