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Byline: JENNIFER HOWARD The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Istanbul-born novelist Orhan Pamuk, 'who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city [...]

Novelist Jane Green has made it onto the British bestseller list four times and now enjoys her first American chart landing with Jemima J. Broadway Books published it in trade [...]

Last year there were no repeaters from the previous year among our top-10 crime novel authors. This year there is one: George P. Pelecanos, who, with the debut of an [...]

The folks at Bantam are pleased that their star author Dean Koontz is enjoying another holiday hit with the mass market edition of Seize the Night. The book got some [...]

Clive Cussler's 15th book featuring Dirk Pitt, Atlantis Found (his first was published in 1973), lands on the top of the PW list after lust one week in the stores. [...]

For years, David Gates has written fiction to support himself while he pursued his lifelong dream of being a NEWSWEEK writer. Or so he tells us. Gates is one of [...]

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, but few British readers could name other Arab writers, largely because translations into English are so rare. This [...]

Despite glowing reviews and two Man Booker Prize shortlistings (for The Riders and Dirt Music), Australian novelist Tim Winton has never achieved the size of readership in this country that [...]

1 1972s John Berger exposes sponsor's exploitation of the Caribbean 2 1991: Nicholas Mosley, a Judge, doesn't get his way. Resigns "in a huff" 3 1982: Fay Weldon tells a [...]

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book published in the UK by Bloomsbury has won the Best Novel award at the Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy. Gaiman won the Newbery [...]

Veteran Irish novelist Edna O'Brien was honoured at this year's Irish Book Awards with the Bob Hughes LifetimeAchievement Award. O'Brien is the author of 14 novels and five collections of [...]

Simon & Schuster has reprinted 10,000 copies of Olive Kitteridge, after the collection of short stories won the Pulitzer Prize this week. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was announced on [...]

Ma-Yi Theater Company gave David Henry Hwang a lifetime achievement award at its annual fete in New York City. Asian-American Literary Awards went to novelist Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), [...]

The shortlist for the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) 2009 Romantic Novel of the Year has been revealed, with indie Allison & Busby on the list. Sophia's Secret from A&B by [...]

Cecelia Ahern, Sophie Kinsella and Victoria Hislop have all made the longlist for the Romantic Novel of the Year 2009, hosted by the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA). Ahern's Thanks for [...]

Stef Penney has taken this year's Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus), beating Simon Beckett and Mark Billingham, among others. Announced [...]

Anne Enright has followed last year's Man Booker win by securing the Irish Novel of the Year award for The Gathering (Cape) at this year's Irish Book Awards. The awards [...]

The shortlists have been unveiled for this year's CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children's books. The Carnegie shortlist has an international flavour with [...]

Lloyd Jones has won the 10,000 £ Wales Book of the Year award for his second novel, Mr Cassini (Seren).The book, described by Jones as an 'anti-novel', beat off competition [...]

Newcomers dominate this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction shortlist. Novelists with debut or second books on the list are Kiran Desai, with The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton), which [...]

Caption: Pen name: bestselling Irish novelist Maeve Binchy has won the Irish PEN/A T Cross Award for Literature, established in 1921. The annual prize celebrates a lifetime of literary achievement [...]

Sarah Waters is the early favourite to win this year's Orange Prize for Fiction following the announcement of the shortlist on Wednesday. Her novel The Night Watch (Virago) is at [...]

The shortlist for the Foster Grant Reading Glasses Roman-tic Novel of the Year Award has been announced, and it includes only the fifth man in 46 years nominated for the [...]

Literary agency Mulcahy & Viney is awarding a prize for the best novelin-progress by a student on the University of Manchester's MA Course in Novel Writing. The Mulcahy & Viney [...]

Patricia Cornwell returned to the top of the original fiction chart as Predator claimed its fifth week at number one--more than any other book, Harry Potter excepted, has managed in [...]

Debut novelist Katharine Davies has seen off competition from Andrea Levy and Erica James to win the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her novel, A Good Voyage (Chatto & [...]

Ronan Bennett's Havoc has won the Irish Novel of the Year award, sponsored by booksellers Hughes & Hughes. Bennett wins 10,000 € (6,900 £) from a shortlist that also included [...]

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been voted the most important novel for women in the Watershed Fiction poll run by Radio 4's 'Woman's [...]

A recently published first novel from Nigeria, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate), is one of six titles shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. Adichie's tale [...]

Stephen King has lots to celebrate this week. On November 19, he will receive the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And today his latest bestseller, [...]

The shortlist for this year's Pendleton May First Novel Award, sponsored by Guildford Arts and the Guildford Book Festival, was unveiled this week. The cash prize of 1,000 £ will [...]

Sixty per cent of our list of best young British novelists were educated at Oxford or Cambridge. This must be a tribute to the two Cs - confidence and connections [...]

* Danny Leigh has won the £10,000 Dazed/Egg Creative Bursary, given to an emerging novelist. The award was judged by, among others, David Baddiel, literary agent Hannah Griffiths and Rachel [...]

No question about it, Tony Hillerman is having an excellent year. On May 4, the popular author received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention, while his autobiography, [...]

Who is Marek van der Jagt? Is he the author of the essay about love, writ ten for this year's Dutch Book Week or is he the Dutch writer Arnon [...]

Novelist Marita Golden, who is also president of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, was presented with the Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service at a gala event in New [...]

The Women's Press and John Murray have emerged victorious in the sixth annual Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. The $30,000 ((pounds sterling)20,600) prize was split between Maori novelist Patricia Grace [...]

At the Nov. 18 National Book Awards ceremonies, the publishing world's equivalent of the Oscars, author Tom Wolfe pretty much pulled a Woody Allen. The white-suited writer, an NBA finalist, [...]

Of 29 recipients, two Blacks were named MacArthur Fellows by the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. MacArthur Fellowships, sometimes called 'genius grants,' are unrestricted awards in support of [...]

ASIDE from the high amount of entertainment on offer from the Booker prize novels this year, there is also (and this is somewhat to be regretted) a strong whiff of [...]

HEAD START Getting his new novel published in Spain prior to U.S. publication has paid off handsomely for Noah Gordon. Choices, which Dutton has scheduled for next spring, is already [...]

That's LaVyrle Spencer's record so far, a batting average any of those pesky little boys of summer might well aspire to if they ever take to the field again. But [...]

If the last Booker Prize panel was unable to choose a single novel from a single season, how could a 12-person jury that stretched from Eleanor Bron to Seamus Heaney [...]

The Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, which at 20,000 pounds sterling is Britain's most valuable fiction prize, was won by Michael Frayn for his Landing on the Sun [...]