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Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". SOUNDBITE
French writer Jean-Paul Dubois appears at the window of the Drouant restaurant in Paris after winning the 2019 Prix Goncourt literary prize with his novel "Not all men inhabit the world in the same way", published by L'Olivier. COMPLETES 1LZ705 IMAGES
A Hong Kong film portraying a dystopian future under Chinese Communist Party rule won one of Asia's top film awards, Sarah Mills reports.
The world's biggest children's book award goes to a South African organisation promoting reading among children and young people. Rollo Ross reports.
French economist Thomas Piketty, the best-selling author of Capital, has turned down the Legion of Honor, since he is of the opinion that it is not the government's role to decide who is honorable.
French Prime Minister and former Education Minister Gabriel Attal congratulates his successor newly appointed Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera at handover ceremony. Attal vows to make school " the heart of the battles fought by my government". SOUNDBITE