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Thieves locked South African Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer in a store room while they robbed her home. Gordimer, 83, handed over cash and jewelry from a safe but would not give up her wedding ring. Guards arrived half an hour later and released the author.
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L’Ennui (boredom), an unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote during her college years was discovered by a graduate student doing research at Indiana University. The poem was written as Plath was reading Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and incorporated themes from the book. It will appear in a few days in an online literary journal. Plath, who committed suicide at the age of 30, was married to British poet laureate Ted Hughes.
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