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Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies aged 89
12:05:45, 4 August 2008, Radio Australia News
The Soviet dissident writer and Nobel prize winner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has died aged 89 in his home outside Moscow.
Controversial author Salmon Rushdie knighted
04:55:36, 26 June 2008, Radio Australia News
The controversial British author Salman Rushdie has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature.
Carroll wins Miles Franklin literary award
08:01:10, 20 June 2008, Radio Australia News
A book about suburban Melbourne in the 1970s has won this year's Miles Franklin literary award.
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