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Israeli writer Avraham Yehoshua honoured in France Posted: 06 Nov 2012 07:03 AM PST PARIS, Nov 6 — Veteran Israeli writer Avraham B Yehoshua has been awarded France's Medicis literature prize for a translated work with his novel The Retrospective. Israeli writer Avraham B Yehoshua with his book "Retrospective" in front of the Odeon Theatre on November 6, 2012 in Paris. — AFP/Relaxnews A sombre work that explores the relationship between life and art, The Retrospective is centred around an ageing film director who is invited to the Spanish pilgrim city of Santiago de Campostela for a retrospective of his work. As he meanders down memory lane with his former screenwriter and an ageing actress who served as their muse, the themes of mortality, the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation are explored. Yehoshua, 75, has won a string of international literary awards and has had his books translated from Hebrew into more than 30 languages. He is well-known and popular in France, where he lived for three years in the 1960s. The main Medicis prize, which is awarded to writers who, in the opinion of the jury, have not achieved the renown their work deserves, was awarded to Emmanuelle Pireyre, 43, for her fourth novel, Feerie generale. — AFP/Relaxnews

Macmillan Dictionary leaves print for online-only venture Posted: 05 Nov 2012 06:40 PM PST The Macmillan Dictionary is leaving print for online. — Picture courtesy of shutterstock.com LONDON, Nov 6 — The Macmillan Dictionary is entering a digital future, with print versions being phased out and attention turned to maintaining, updating and augmenting the Macmillan Dictionary Online. It joins the Oxford English Dictionary and the Encyclopaedia Britannica (whose parent owns Merriam Webster) in dropping print for pixels but is adamant that the change is for the best. "While printed dictionaries only get updated every four or five years, Macmillan's online presence means we can add new words and phrases on a regular basis," explained Macmillan Dictionary Online's EIC, Michael Rundell, in a statement to the press. On the Macmillan Dictionary blog he identified the online arena as a dictionary's "ideal medium," one which can free reference material from necessary physical limitations and expand it with multimedia pronunciation guides, word games, and instant updates fuelled by changes in language and popular usage. Official website: macmillandictionary.com. — AFP-Relaxnews

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