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		<title>Bookworm vs Couch Potato</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir, Iceland Review Online, March 25th 2011]: When my grandfather was young he was sent off to work on a farm in north Iceland. There, the ancient Icelandic custom húslestur (“house reading”) was practiced, where everyone would get together in the badstofa (living room, sleeping quarters and wool workshop all in one) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Icelandic author wins Nordic literature prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[M&#038;G, April 12th 2011]: Icelandic author Gyrdir Eliasson was Tuesday named winner of the 2011 Nordic Council Literature Prize, worth 350,000 kroner (67,000 dollars). Eliasson was honoured for his short story collection Milli trjann (Between the Trees) for &#8216;stylistically outstanding literary art which depicts inner and outer threats in dialogue with world literature.&#8217; More &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Randall Maggs, the Sawchuk poet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Bruce McCurdy, 'The Copper &#038; Blue', March 20th 2011]: Having serendipitously initiated contact with the publisher, we at the Copper &#038; Blue pressed our luck and requested an interview with the author. We wound up with an interview and a half! Randy responded to our questions graciously and loquaciously, his remarks as insightful as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry residency, Prince Edward Island : Louise Oxley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tasmanian Writers&#8217; Centre director, Chris Gallagher, last night announced the winner of the Centre’s most prestigious residency, a three-week exchange to Prince Edward Island, Canada. &#8216;We&#8217;re enormously proud to be able to offer this residency every two years to a local writer, half-way across the road &#8230; aah, across the world&#8230;. the residency this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be an Icelander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ingibjörg Rósa Björnsdóttir, Iceland Review Online, March 8th 2011]: I once had the pleasure of interviewing Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård when he was filming in Iceland. As we were chatting afterwards, he said something that has stuck with me ever since. When describing his first impression of the Icelandic people, he said it was notable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Ontario author releases first book, &#8216;The Fetch&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rita Poliakov, The Sudbury Star, March 1st 2011]: Nico Rogers&#8217;s childhood is a blur of stories. Sitting at the kitchen table in his Northern Ontario home, Rogers would listen to his father talk about his life in Newfoundland. &#8220;There was so much story telling happening. With various relative passing through, our family was well known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It only takes a spark to get a fire going</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ryan Belbin, The Muse]: January is a cold month in St. John’s, but the Faculty of Arts is planning to make things a little bit cosier by getting the sparks flying—literary sparks, that is. The second annual SPARKS Festival is being held on Jan. 23 at the Petro-Canada Hall, bringing together a diverse assemblage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPARKS Literary Festival, St John&#8217;s Newfoundland 23rd Jan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial University of Newfoundland&#8217;s Faculty of Arts : 2011 SPARKS literary festival from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, January 23 &#8211; Petro-Canada Hall in the School of Music. Schedule of events: SPARKS Literary Festival 2011 10.20 a.m. Opening remarks: Dr. Noel Roy, Dean of Arts pro tempore; Mary Dalton, Festival Director Session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Murray and Jane Munro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Barbara Carey, thestar.com. December 18th 2010]: Most of us live in a state of “continuous partial attention,” according to technology theorist Linda Stone. In a world where a barrage of distractions —the “ping” of countless alerts from our mobile devices and computers — erodes our concentration, poetry would seem to be the ideal literary form, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minister presents Prince Edward Island book awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Canada.views, November 24th 2010]: The PEI Book Awards celebrates excellence in book publishing and creates awareness of published literature by Islanders, says Minister of Tourism and Culture Robert Vessey. We have a rich diversity in the literary culture of the province and the judges had an unenviable task comparing publications which were very different in [...]]]></description>
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