0213 GMT May 21, 2022
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Arts & Culture Desk
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Arts & Culture Desk
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Five Muslim laureates of the fourth edition of the Mustafa Prize biennial were named during a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
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Kazuo Ishiguro first won the Booker prize in 1989 for ‘The Remains of the Day’. Thirty-one years later, the British author made the longlist for the £50,000 award with ‘Klara and the Sun,’ his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Ali Smith won the Orwell prize for political fiction for ‘Summer,’ a novel written at speed last year, which judges described as “a time-capsule which will prove to be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the mood of Britain during this turbulent time”.
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Bhanu Kapil won the most valuable award in British poetry, the T.S. Eliot prize, for her “radical and arresting” collection, ‘How to Wash a Heart,’ in which she depicts the uncomfortable dynamics between an immigrant and her white, middle-class host.
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On Monday it was announced that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the 2019 Mustafa(pbuh) Prize laureate has shown more than 90% efficacy.
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Reza Naji, the first Iranian actor to win the Silver Bear Award, overcame cancer after undergoing medical treatment.
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Just as US President Donald Trump is taking time off his controversial impeachment trial to unveil his much hyped-up peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a potentially explosive situation is unfolding in Palestinian territories where there is huge resentment among the leadership and the people towards the so-called ‘deal of the century.’
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Just as US President Donald Trump is taking time off his controversial impeachment trial to unveil his much hyped-up peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a potentially explosive situation is unfolding in Palestinian territories where there is huge resentment among the leadership and the people towards the so-called ‘deal of the century.’
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All four artists shortlisted for the 2019 Turner prize were named winners after they came together and made a plea for judges to recognize the causes of “commonality, multiplicity, and solidarity.”
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Hailed as a visionary and reformer, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to resolve the long-running conflict with neighboring foe Eritrea.
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‘Hollyoaks’ was the big winner at the Inside Soap Awards, taking home the best soap award for the first time.
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Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘Celestial Bodies’.
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