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Slowness (novel) Slowness (French: "La Lenteur" ), published in 1995 in France, is a novel written in French by Milan Kundera. In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera to describe a philosophy about modernity, technology, memory and sensuality.
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Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (] ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
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Bill Bryson William McGuire "Bill" Bryson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the United States between 1995 and 2003. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.
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David-Matthew Barnes David-Matthew Barnes (born September 3, 1970) is an American author, playwright, poet, and screenwriter.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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Montague Haltrecht Montague Haltrecht (27 February 1932 – 27 March 2010) was an English writer, literary critic, model and radio and TV presenter. Over the course of his literary career he wrote four novels, "Jonah and His Mother" (1964), "A Secondary Character" (1965), "The Devil is a Single Man" (1969) and "The Edgware Road" (1970), exploring different aspects of Jewish life, and a biography of Sir David Webster, "The Quiet Showman" (1975), along with several short stories and radio and TV plays. He won the Henfield Foundation Award for his first two novels and gained a BAFTA nomination for his TV play "Can You Hear Me Thinking?".
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Tessa Hadley Tessa Jane Hadley {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'FRSL', '4': "} (born 28 February 1956; née Nichols) is a British author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won one of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham–Campbell judges describe her as "one of English's ﬁnest contemporary writers" and state that her writing "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful." As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
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Jacqueline Briskin Jacqueline Briskin, née Orgell (18 December 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a British-born American writer specializing in historical fiction from 1970 to 1995. Her books regularly appear on the "New York Times" bestseller's list. She was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide.
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John McManus (author) John McManus is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of a novel, "Bitter Milk," and the short story collections "Born on a Train" and "Stop Breakin Down." In recognition of "Stop Breakin Down," McManus became the youngest ever recipient of the Whiting Award.
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Christopher Buckley (novelist) Christopher Taylor Buckley (born September 28, 1952) is an American political satirist known for writing "God Is My Broker", "Thank You for Smoking", "Little Green Men", "The White House Mess", "No Way to Treat a First Lady", "Wet Work", "Florence of Arabia", "Boomsday", "Supreme Courtship", "Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir" and, most recently, "The Relic Master: A Novel". He is the son of writer William F. Buckley Jr. and socialite Patricia Buckley.
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Christopher Bram Christopher Bram (born 1952) is an American author.
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Henry Dimbleby Henry Richard Melville Dimbleby (born May 1970) is a British cookery writer and a co-founder of the Leon Restaurants fast food chain.
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Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist.
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Frank Dalby Davison Frank Dalby Davison (23 June 1893 - 24 May 1970), also known as F.D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Whilst several of his works demonstrated his progressive political philosophy, he is best known as "a writer of animal stories and a sensitive interpreter of Australian bush life in the tradition of Henry Lawson, Joseph Furphy and Vance Palmer." His most popular works were two novels, "Man-shy" and "Dusty", and his short stories.
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The Slow Empire The Slow Empire is a BBC Books original novel written by Dave Stone and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.
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John Blumenthal John Blumenthal (born 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for co-writing the screenplays for the films "Short Time" and "Blue Streak".
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Carolyn Meyer Carolyn Meyer (born June 8, 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults.
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Slow West Slow West is a 2015 British/New Zealand action western film written and directed by John Maclean in his directorial debut. It stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young man searching for his lost love in the American West, accompanied by a bounty hunter played by Michael Fassbender. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2015, where it was awarded the Sundance Institute's World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic Winner.
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Robert J. H. Morrison Robert J. H. Morrison (born 6 January 1961) is a Canadian author, editor, academic, and professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is a scholar of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture, particularly of Romanticism and the works of Thomas De Quincey.
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Laura Bynum Laura Bynum (born February 28, 1968 in Springfield, Illinois) is an American author. Her first novel, "Veracity", was published in January, 2010.
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Marion Patrick Jones Marion Patrick Jones (16 August 1931 – 2 March 2016) was a Trinidadian novelist, whose training was in the fields of library science and social anthropology. She is also known by the names Marion Glean and Marion O'Callaghan (her married name). Living in Britain during the 1960s, she was also an activist within the black community. She was the author of two notable novels: "Pan Beat", first published in 1973, and "J’Ouvert Morning" (1976), and also wrote non-fiction.
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Carl Honoré Carl Honoré (born 1967 in Scotland) is a Canadian journalist who wrote the internationally best-selling book "In Praise of Slow" (2004) about the Slow Movement.