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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020508
Author:Jeanette Oldham

DON Quixote, the 400-year-old Spanish story about a deluded knight, has been voted the best novel in history.

Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century masterpiece was placed comfortably ahead of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) in the poll of 100 authors from 54 nations.

It eclipsed the plays of Shakespeare and great works from Homer to Tolstoy.

Ben Okri, a Nigerian-born author who won the Booker Prize and wrote the introduction to a new Norwegian edition of Don Quixote, told a news conference yesterday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute to launch the ...

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