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800-word Harry Potter prequel to be auctioned

AP — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:07:33 +0000

An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in the British capital. Waterstone’s Booksellers Ltd. says the cream-colored A5 papers _ each slightly bigger than a postcard _ were distributed to 13 authors and illustrators, including the boy wizard’s creator J.K. Rowling, Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, novelist Margaret Atwood and playwright Tom Stoppard.

Obama will be assassinated if he wins: Nobel winner Lessing

Hector — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:59:44 +0000

If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here...

The Nobel Prize For Literature Goes To Doris Lessing!

Ritu — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:08:19 +0000

The 87-year- old British Novelist Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature, proving an official wrong, who had once remarked about her inefficiency to do so. Ironically, she found out about her prestigious award from a reporter who...