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People: `Don Quixote' voted world 's best fiction

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From: The Independent - London
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VA hundred international writers, including Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, Milan Kundera, Nadine Gordimer, Carlos Fuentes and Norman Mailer, confirmed Don Quixote as the world's best work of fiction yesterday. Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century tale of the adventures of an ageing, mildly unhinged knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, scored well ahead of Shakespeare's plays and epics by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Homer and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Norwegian book clubs asked writers from more than 50 countries to name the world's 10 best pieces of literature. Cervantes, who developed his idea in prison, ...

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