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  2. Babel, or the Necessity of Violence - Wikipedia

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    Babel debuted in September 2022 at the top spot on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction. [3] [4] It was generally well received, including starred reviews from Booklist [5] and Kirkus Reviews. [6] According to Book Marks, the book received a "positive" consensus, based on nine critics: six "rave", two "positive", and one ...

  3. R. F. Kuang - Wikipedia

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    Babel debuted at the first spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, and won the Blackwell's Book of the Year for Fiction in 2022 along with the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel. In addition, Kuang has won the Compton Crook Award , the Crawford Award , and the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer , and has been a finalist for the Nebula ...

  4. Josiah Bancroft - Wikipedia

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    On December 3, 2021, Orbit Books announced the acquisition of a new three book series from Josiah Bancroft entitled The Hexologists. [11] "The Hexologists introduces us to a new world and the dynamic duo of Hexologists Iz and Warren Wilby: two private investigators who solve magical problems with magical solutions."

  5. The Library of Babel (website) - Wikipedia

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    The algorithm Basile created generates a 'book' by iterating every permutation of 29 characters: the 26 English letters, space, comma, and period. [8] Each book is marked by a coordinate, corresponding to its place on the hexagonal library (hexagon name, wall number, shelf number, and book name) so that every book can be found at the same place every time.

  6. Odessa Stories - Wikipedia

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    Odessa Stories (Russian: Одесские рассказы, romanized: Odesskiye rasskazy), also known as Tales of Odessa, is a collection of four short stories by Isaac Babel, set in Odessa in the last days of the Russian Empire and the Russian Revolution.

  7. Hela Havula - Wikipedia

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    By the beginning of the 1960s, the Hela Hawula was the strongest force in the country in terms of the Sinhala language and literature. [11] At that time the 'Hela Havula' had branches not only in Ahangama, Unawatuna, Rathgama, Galle, Kalutara and Kandy but also in schools such as Mahinda College in Galle and S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia .

  8. Sybil Wettasinghe - Wikipedia

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    Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe (Sinhala: සිබිල් වෙත්තසිංහ) (31 October 1927 – 1 July 2020) was a children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Considered as the doyen of children's literature in Sri Lanka, Wettasinghe has produced more than 200 children's books which have been translated ...

  9. Katukurunde Nyanananda Mahathera - Wikipedia

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    Ven. Ñāṇananda was born in 1940 to a Sinhala Buddhist family in Galle District in Sri Lanka.He received his school education from Mahinda College, Galle. [1] In 1962 he graduated from the University of Peradeniya specializing in Pali Studies, and served as an assistant lecturer in Pali at the same university for a brief period of time.