In the frame … again

Janet Frame was again shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Literature for a second time, despite making the Swedish Academy’s top five finalists and being picked to win by one of the country’s chief literary critics – Asa Bechmann, of Swedish daily Dagen Nyheter. The prestigious $2.18 million award went to two time Booker Prize winner, J.M Coetzee of South Africa. Frame previously made the Nobel short-list in 1998.


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…