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Although the South Korean novelist had already tallied up a number of other prestigious international accolades and is widely read here, she is 53, and the award traditionally favors writers in the twilight of their careers.

“If entertaining, widely read books have sex scenes in which women are equal partners, or more than equal — women are the dominant partners — then that’s great. That’s redressing the imbalance a little bit.”

His death, from cancer, was announced on the front page of The National Post, the widely read daily newspaper for which he wrote a column, one of several he had over the years in Canadian papers, including The Globe and Mail in Toronto.

But knowing what we know about Lady Whistledown and a woman’s ability to find a path wherever she’s placed, regardless of her circumstances, one has to wonder whether love is more expensive than self-sufficiency . . . and the satisfaction of a job well and widely read.

The image was created by the Palestinian political cartoonist Naji Al-Ali in 1969, one of the most widely read cartoonists in the Arab world, who was murdered in London in 1987.