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Women’s Prize for Fiction: Maggie O’Farrell wins for Hamnet, about Shakespeare’s son

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Women's Prize for Fiction: Maggie O'Farrell wins for Hamnet, about Shakespeare's son

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O’Farrell’s different novels embrace This Should Be the Place and After You’d Gone

Writer Maggie O’Farrell has received this yr’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, a novel impressed by and named after William Shakespeare’s solely son.

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The Northern Irish author beat Hilary Mantel, Bernardine Evaristo and three different authors to the £30,000 prize.

Hamnet is a fictionalised account of the lifetime of the Bard’s son, who died in 1596 when he was simply 11.

Chair of judges Martha Lane Fox praised the ebook for expressing “one thing profound about the human expertise”.

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She stated: “The euphoria of being in the identical room for the ultimate judging assembly was rapidly eclipsed by the joy all of us really feel about this distinctive winner.”

O’Farrell is the 25th recipient of the prize, which was first introduced because the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996. Earlier winners embrace Eimear McBride, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy.

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Joe Willis performed Hamnet Shakespeare within the BBC comedy Upstart Crow

‘Fantastically written and intensely transferring’

By Rebecca Jones, BBC arts correspondent

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It will need to have been a very powerful name spurning the Booker winners Hilary Mantel and Bernardine Evaristo. However Maggie O’Farrell is a worthy winner.

Hamnet is a superbly written and intensely transferring novel about grief and loss. However do not let that put you off.

It’s also a richly drawn and immersive portrait of life in 16th Century England, from the smells of bread rolls baking in a sizzling kitchen to the sight of bees teeming on a honeycomb.

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It’s intelligent too. Shakespeare is rarely named. This can be a ebook about a girl and her three youngsters – and their lives are vividly imagined.

And it’s well timed. Plague killed Hamnet in 1596 and there’s a gripping chapter exploring how the illness reaches Stratford by way of a flea on a monkey in Alexandria and a glassmaker in Venice.

Commerce and journey are responsible and parallels with the present pandemic are unavoidable.

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Evaristo was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for Lady, Lady, Different, which shared final yr’s Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments.

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Mantel’s nomination got here for The Mirror and the Gentle, the conclusion to her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell.

That is the fourth time the two-time Booker winner has missed out on the award, having been beforehand shortlisted in 2006, 2010 and 2013.

Angie Cruz, Natalie Haynes and Jenny Offill have been additionally nominated for Dominicana, A Thousand Ships and Climate respectively.

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This yr’s award ceremony was to have taken place on three June, however was delayed as a result of coronavirus pandemic.

Wednesday’s digital occasion noticed O’Farrell named the winner in London and given her award in her house city of Edinburgh.

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Dartmouth Jewish Studies HOD, Annelise Orleck Arrested; Video Surfaces 

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Dartmouth Jewish Studies HOD, Annelise Orleck Arrested; Video Surfaces 

Annelise Orleck, a professor of Dartmouth College, is all over the internet. She is the head of Jewish Studies at the institution. 

Annelise Orleck was arrested on Wednesday night during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus. Along with her, dozens of other professors were also arrested. Allegedly, they all showed up to support students. 

Recalling the incident, the 65-year-old stated that when police moved into the college on Wednesday night to arrest them, Dartmouth Green was unrecognizable. 

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Annelise said that when she was trying to protect students, her phone was snatched from her and she was knocked down. 

Annelise Orleck added that, in her entire career of being a professor at the college for decades, she had never witnessed anything like that. 

A video of this incident has gone viral all over social media platforms in which police officers can be spotted pushing her against the ground, and then they detain her.

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According to WMUR9, Orleck stated,

“I was mad because they had taken my phone, and I was mad because they just body-slammed me, and it hurt. And so, I went and said, ‘Give me back my phone’. I’m trying to get my phone back. I did. And, at that moment, three police lifted me up in the air, slammed me down onto the ground. I mean, I threw myself down onto the ground on my bad shoulder. And they said I was resisting arrest.”

The video of the 65-year-old that went viral was captured at the protest by news channels. 

She added,

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“And it’s really shameful in a sleepy little campus, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this ridiculous show of arms and strength and violence.”

Who is Annelise Orleck?

As per womenalsoknowhistory.com, Annelise Orleck was born and brought up in Brooklyn. Currently, she resides with the journalist Alexis Jetter, her partner in Thetford Center, Vermont. 

At the college, the 65-year-old teaches Jewish Studies, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, and History. 

Moreover, she has been serving at Dartmouth for more than thirty years now. However, her bail condition states that she is banned from entering Dartmouth’s campus. 

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Annelise Orleck stated she sent some emails to the institution, but was left unanswered. She said that being a Jewish woman, she was quite worried about her safety, especially after Wednesday night’s police response.

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LVAC Shooting Update: Male Suspect Arrested, Near Las Vegas Gym On Flamingo Road

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LVAC Shooting Update: Male Suspect Arrested, Near Las Vegas Gym On Flamingo Road

A shooting incident that took place at the Athletic Club of Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon is currently the talk of the town.

In the wake of the incident, a man linked with the shooting incident has been taken into police custody. 

Reportedly, the incident occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m. in the 9600 block of W. Flamingo Road. 

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Fox5 reported that, when the police officials reached the scene, they discovered a male suspect inside a car. Police asked the man a few questions and tried to contact him, but the man refused to come out of the vehicle. 

Suspect Arrested

SWAT and crisis negotiators arrived at the scene and the male suspect was apprehended. More information about the story is not available yet. 

The place where the shooting occurred has been placed on lockdown temporarily, reported Times Now.

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In regard to the incident, one person wrote, “Cops and helicopters everywhere, And so many gunshots were fired. The helicopter was talking through the microphone. What’s going on?”

Following the incident, an increased presence of police and law enforcement officials could be spotted in the area.

Also Read: Chelsea NYC Shooting: One Dead, One Arrested in Gunfire On West 24th Street 

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Warren High School Stabbing Incident: School Placed Under Lockdown, One Student In Custody 

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Warren High School Stabbing Incident: School Placed Under Lockdown, One Student In Custody 

The Warren High School stabbing incident has dominated the media headlines. In connection to this stabbing incident, a student has been taken into custody. 

Two students were involved in a brawl in which one stabbed another. The victim suffers life-threatening injuries, reported NBC.

The incident occurred on Wednesday at Warren High School in Downey, California. The school confirmed the incident in a Facebook post.

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It stated that the academic institution was placed on a brief lockdown in the wake of the incidents. Furthermore, all students were safe. 

Announcement by Warren High School 

The school wrote,

“There has been an incident between two students at Warren High School that warranted a lockdown and the lockdown has been cleared. At this point, we can confirm one of the students is receiving medical treatment due to an injury to a sharp object. Downey Police have the student in custody.”

Warren High School added,

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“Police are conducting an investigation and students are remaining in class for now. All students and staff on campus are safe. Additional information will be sent as soon as possible.”

According to Times Now, as per the reports available, classes of the students resumed at 2 p.m. Parents were also provided with an option to take their kids safely back home for the day. 

Situations that resulted in the incident haven’t been made public yet.

Also Read: Chelsea NYC Shooting: One Dead, One Arrested in Gunfire On West 24th Street 

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