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Now playing Next Culture news Who had the biggest impact on Culture in 2023? Here are Euronews Culture's People of the Year 2023 - the figures who impacted, influenced and defined a year in European and Global Culture. 31/12/2023
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Now playing Next Culture news Author who compared Gaza to Nazi ghettos awarded German literary prize Masha Gessen made controversial comments in an article published in the New Yorker, writing that Gaza is "like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany." 18/12/2023
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