Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 28

... that the "12.30 from Croydon" is an aircraft rather than a train?

... that Heinrich Böll's 1963 novel Ansichten eines Clowns (The Clown) deals with German people's inability, during the Wirtschaftswunder years, to come to terms with their Nazi past?

... that Jacques Derrida used Charles Baudelaire's short tale "La fausse monnaie" as the starting point for his book, Donner le temps (1991)?

... that Hay-on-Wye in Brecknockshire, Wales was the first book town?

... that the Heimskringla contains tales about Norwegian kings, and that it was written around 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson?

... that the screenplay for Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (1956) was written by Tennessee Williams, and that Karl Malden and Eli Wallach again appeared together on the screen more than 30 years later, in Martin Ritt's Nuts?

... that Leonard Cohen has written two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers?