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... that the reality television poetry competition Prince of Poets is more popular than football in countries of the Arab world, where it airs?
... that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won a record-tying seven Olivier Awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards on April 28, 2013?
... that Berit Brænne's first children's book, from 1958, is a story about a sailor's family who adopted children from different parts of the world?
... that the 1934 Jeanne Galzy novel Jeunes filles en serre chaude, with its seductive title, was deemed to contain "dangerous aberrations" and "strong emotional reaction[s] of an undesirable nature"?
... that Fu Sheng was credited with saving the Confucian classic Book of Documents from the book burning of the First Emperor of China?