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Jaipur Literature Festival gears up for 13th edition: Here’s everything you need to know
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Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood the second female author to win twice after Hilary Mantel
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Harold Bloom, critic who championed Western canon, dies at 89
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Jury breaks rules, Booker Prize awarded jointly to Atwood and Evaristo; Rushdie misses out
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Nobel Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo’s new book all set to release in November
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