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The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Photograph: Mario Guzman/EPA

The artist's confessions to her doctor were locked up for 50 years. Now the details of her misery at not being able to bear children have been exposed

She was always one of the most painfully personal of artists, producing a series of autobiographical canvases that dealt with everything from the consequences of the terrible injuries she suffered in a tram crash to her abortion. But finally the one part of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's life that has remained secret - at the orders of her former husband, fellow painter Diego Rivera - has been revealed in a new book published in Mexico...

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Naguib Mafouz

A good link to a potted history of Naguib Mafouz and his life and work here. The Paris Review has also run an old interview (1992) with him after his death on 30 August. This is the man who brought modern Egypt alive on the page.