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Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
June 8, 2020Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...
Read moreLegado de intelectual chilena Marta Harnecker
June 18, 2019Marta Harnecker acompañó las luchas de liberación de los pueblos del mundo como maestra, socióloga y luchadora social.
Read morePatricia McKissack, author of African-American children’s books, dies
April 12, 2017“To me, reading is like breathing; both are essential to life.”—Patricia C. McKissack
Read moreNadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies
July 16, 2014Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.
Read moreFarley Mowat: Writer, socialist and environmentalist
May 23, 2014Canadian author Farley Mowat, who died on May 12, wrote with humour, keen perception and passionate social commitment, completing over 40 books and numerous articles.
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