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Wim Wenders, a giant of German cinema known for films such as “Paris, Texas” and “Wings of Desire,” will be honoured by the European Film Academy for his “outstanding body of work.” Wenders, 79, is to receive the honour at the European Film Awards ceremony on December 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the academy said on Tuesday. Wenders was born in Dusseldorf in 1945 and currently lives in Berlin. He has made dozens of feature films and documentaries since his debut work “Summer in the City” in 1970. He won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival in 1984 for the road film “Paris, Texas” and achieved a…