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Known for the 1950 coverage of the Korean War, the self-taught Chinese writer is best known for "Who is the Most Lovable". A eulogy of those involved in the Korean War, he writes of heroism and the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese People's Volunteer. Influencing generations of Chinese people, the phrase from the book, "The Most Lovable", is used to address all Chinese soldiers.
Passing away from liver cancer, Wei Wei was born in 1920—becoming a member of the Communist Party of China in 1938. Born to a poor family in Zhengzhou, he joined the Eighth Route Army at the outbreak of the War of Resistance which was against Japan in 1937.
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Author Jacqueline Wilson is considered a prominent name in the world of children's books, with her latest book "My Sister Jodie" " gaining national attention because of the letter "a". Apparently, three individuals who have purchased the book found an error referring the work "twit" as "twat", with Random House now amending all future editions of the new book. Over 150,000 books have been sold in comparison to those three customers, so apparently the outrage is not a public one, but the change in the book was made anyway.
An English writer, Jacqueline Wilson's first novel was written when she was nine-years-old. Winning numerous awards, over 7,000 of her books have been sold in the UK alone with her book "Double Act" voted 10th in the Nation's Favorite Children's Book. In June of 2002, she was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools.
One of the 800 authors at Scotland's 2008 Edinburgh Book Festival, high-profile Scottish nationalist Sean Connery will launch his written personal memoirs titled "Being a Scott". The festival is the first time the 78-year old Scottish actor will have allowed anyone to observe his memoirs, after going through many ghostwriters, co-writers, and publishers—finally settling on Murray Grigor-- Scottish filmmaker, writer, and exhibition designer, who won the UK/US Bicentennial Fellowship in the Arts for his research film on Frank Lloyd Wright.
Not the usual biography garbage full of sex, lies and affairs, this memoir was written about Scottish culture and its life, the gothic tendency in Scots literature, architecture and sports. A vocal supporter of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, Sean Connery lives in the Bahamas and vows he will stay there until Scotland gains independence from the United Kingdom.
The Edinburgh festival will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, in addition to being Britain's leading literary gathering. Held every August in the capital of Scotland, other events are jazz, comedy, and performing arts festivals. This year will also see Salman Rushdie, Louis de Bernieres, and Margaret Atwood.
A recent write-up regarding a new book by librarian Sally
Stern-Hamilton of a Lake Michigan resort community, under the pen name
Ann Miketa, may help her obtain fame a whole little quicker than with most
budding authors. Her new book. "Denialville"--changed to "The Library Diaries"-- starts out with the
introduction, " ...I have encountered strains and
variations of crazy I
didn't know existed in such significant portions of our population."
Well, obviously that population became offended at who they thought the
"fiction" book was about when they learned the author's identity--first
suspending her as a library assistant and then firing her 10 days later.
The description under the online catalog of Publish America states, ""Open
this book and you'll meet the naked patron, the greedy,
unenlightened patrons, destination hell, the masturbator, horny old
men, Mr. Three Hats, and a menagerie of other characters you never
dreamt were housed at your public library." Right there we may have a
best seller, regarding issues most people do not talk about or choose
to veil yet will read about it lavishly within the privacy of their
homes--written within one of the top pillars of free speech--the
local library.
Suffering has taken on a new look for French sex author, Catherine
Millet, who became famous when her 2001 book "The Sexual Life of Catherine M.", sold over a million copies in 11 different languages,
telling about her rather early sexual awakening. Written in an
extremely graphic manner of her sexual escapades, many hailed her book
as nothing more than "stylized" pornography while others patted her on
the back as a feminist hero. Either way, she moved on with her new
book, "Jour de Souffrance" or "Day of Suffering" which will be released
next week in France.
With this second book also about sex, the author has instead chosen to write of
her straying husband which threw her into a "paranoid psychological
"hell", forcing her to fall into the trap of jealousy and
emotional vulnerability--regardless of the sexual empowerment she
had boasted of in her first book. Not only an author, Millet is also the
editor of Art Press, considered a rather high-brow Parisian cultural
journal that she launched in 1972.
