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7 tips for readers to easily increase the amount of books they read, whether they're already avid readers, or are keen to start reading regularly for the first time. The tips are simple and achievable, and there's a focus on not spending lots of money.

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This article explains how poetry prizes can be good ways of learning about poetry. It goes on to describe in detail five well-known prizes – the Forward, TS Eliot, James Berry, Foyle’s Young Poets, and the Michael Marks Awards. The explanation focuses on the unique value of each of these prizes. The article finishes by encouraging readers to start exploring some of the prizes to find what they like the best.

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Herein, different strategies for reading James Joyce's Ulysses are outlined. Joyce's works are notoriously inaccessible and warrant a unique approach from the reader in order to maximize one's enjoyment and understanding of the text. Brief references to the life and times of James Joyce are woven into the article to provide context.

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On 7 October 2021 the Swedish Academy announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 had been awarded to the 73-year-old Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, ‘for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents’. Gurnah can identify strongly with today’s migrant issues, because as a teenager he himself was a political refugee, and he has found the inspiration for his writing – 10 novels and many short stories – in his own experiences of homesickness and being displaced.

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Primo Levi is one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. Today, he is remembered as the great authority on the Holocaust, but there is more to Levi than pain and trauma. His work is also a magnificent defense of reason, humanism and what George Orwell described as "basic decency."

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The cold winter months are the best time of year for catching up some reading. With the right books, blizzard season can be shortened a bit. As winter nears its end and the anticipation for springtime begins, this short reading list of vibrant and rejuvenating reads is just the thing to shake off the winter chill.

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