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• December 13, 2013
  Penguin Random House Acquires Full Ownership of South Africa’s Random House Struik

  Trade book publisher Penguin Random House today announced the completion of its purchase of Times Media Group’s majority stake in South Africa-based Random House Struik. . .

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• October 10, 2013
  New York Times: Master of the Intricacies of the Human Heart: Alice Munro, Nobel Winner, Mines the Inner Lives of Girls and Women

  Alice Munro, named on Thursday as the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, once observed: “The complexity of things — the things within things — just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.” . . .

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• July 1, 2013
  CEO Markus Dohle Announces Penguin Random House Global Leadership Team

  The global senior executive team for Penguin RandomHouse was announced today by Chief Executive Officer Markus Dohle, following the closing of the transaction by shareholders Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson this morning to formally establish the venture . . .

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