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2023 celebrity deaths – a look back on who we lost this year As 2023 ends, the world is reflecting on another busy year. In that time we lost some big stars from the world of arts and entertainment, WTX News is paying tribute to the biggest names we said goodbye to this year.  Andre Braugher actor, 1962-2023 The US actor’s death came as a massive shock. His family confirmed that the 61-year-old died from lung cancer on December 11, 2023, having been diagnosed with it a few months prior. He was previously a smoker but quit in 2010. After…

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Talking Europe hosts Austrian author Robert Menasse, the winner of the 2023 European Union book prize. The award was set up in 2007 to foster a European spirit and promote understanding of the EU from a cultural perspective. The prize has previously been bestowed on such towering figures as Jonathan Coe, Philippe Sands and Tony Judt. Menasse is the only writer to have won the award twice. We discuss his prize-winning novel “The Enlargement”, which takes places against the backdrop of the actual enlargement of the European Union. It forms the second novel in his trilogy, after “The Capital” in 2019.

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