But perhaps the biggest social phenomenon of the noughties was the rise of celebrity culture, and the world of literature was not immune.
The event began last year as a way of celebrating Spain's National Book Day, but it also coincides with the award of the Cervantes Prize for Literature, the Spanish-speaking world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Norwich is only the 6th city in the world to become a City of Literature, and the first in England, making the city part of an elite international network.
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Previous winners of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize have gone on to become major figures in the world of literature, including Louis de Bernieres, Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan.
Given the poet's standing as one of the great figures of Latin American literature, those conclusions are likely to resonate around the world.
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Whether certain aspects of the literature are intended to mislead the outside world is equally unanswerable.
Much of the literature about gender in the workplace is designed to help women succeed in the masculine world of work.
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Mrs Jenkins believes the letter is an important piece of historical literature and should be shared with the world.
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At the same time he has emerged in the last two decades as one of the most significant voices in Israeli and world literature.
This cinematic cocktail, mixing brandy with suspense, was created when the Cognac merchants, worried by falling sales, decided to link the spirit with the world of cult films and literature.
The passage was originally written by the author, who penned the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, as part of a campaign to promote the capital, the world's first Unesco City of Literature.
The CDs include the audio recordings of many world literature books, classic stories, history and art.
Mr Gaddis gained a view of the practical world during the years when he was unable to make a living from literature.
But the bands of brothers and sisters who endeavour to produce literature, and often have a toe in the academic world, have too much in common to stay apart.
In 2004 Edinburgh was designated the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, celebrating Edinburgh's status as a literary capital.
Bernard Jaffe's 1957 tome, Chemistry Creates a New World, was typical of the admiring literature swallowed whole by schoolchildren.
Was there anyone who was anyone in the world of high politics, arts and literature whom Spender, charming, gentle and urbane from first to last, did not meet over dinner?
"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.
Or a group of students might be in charge of putting together a multimedia presentation about the moral dilemmas in literature as applied to World War II.
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He enriched an Arabic literature which, while perhaps incomparable for its poetry, was then still largely innocent of the fully formed imaginary world of the novel.
These segue to the texts themselves, excellent pieces of literature that serve as introductions to forgotten authors and aspects of world literature most readers would never encounter.
Norwich UNESCO City of Literature welcomed writers and literary professionals from over 25 countries and every continent in the world to speak at its International Literature Showcase last month (April).
Scotland is one of very few countries in the world to have two creative cities, Glasgow City of Music and Edinburgh City of Literature.
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Given the lifelessness of the enterprise, there's little point in belaboring its failure to convey the novel's themes, let alone the emotional and social resonance of what has come to be considered a masterpiece of world literature.
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At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.
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