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The scandal surrounding the writer Gabriel Matzneff was not limited to his pedophilia. It also opened a window on the entrenched and clubby nature of many of France's elite institutions. [...]

Byline: BECKY TOYNE, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead While guests at the 20th anniversary RBC Taylor Prize ceremony enjoyed their lunch, finalist Mark Bourrie moved between tables with [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead After 20 years, Noreen Taylor, wife of the late Charles Taylor, has decided to retire the $30,000 award for the top work of Canadian English-language [...]

The Oscar nominations get all the attention, but Tuesday was a busy day for literary honors as well. Yale University awarded the $165,000 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry to Charles [...]

The journalist Alexandra Pascalidou has spent months watching a sexual abuse and corruption scandal unfurl at the Swedish Academy, the august body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. At [...]

The journalist Alexandra Pascalidou has spent months watching a sexual abuse and corruption scandal unfurl at the Swedish Academy, the august body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. At [...]

Byline: MARSHA LEDERMAN; Staff VANCOUVER -- One of Canada's most lucrative awards for non-fiction writing is being discontinued, a decision that has sparked shock and sadness among previous winners. The [...]

Byline: Ron Charles Embroiled in sexual harassment allegations, the members of the Swedish Academy announced Friday that they will not award a Nobel Prize in literature this year. Instead, they [...]

The National Book Awards, among the most prestigious literary prizes, are going global. Starting this year, the National Book Foundation will recognize works in translation, opening up a distinctly American [...]

The rules of the competition are simple. Pick a book that means a great deal to you -- more than any other book you've read (a caveat: It must have [...]

LONDON -- The shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, among the most prestigious literary honors in the world, includes six books by authors from Britain, Canada, South [...]

The instructions were intriguing, if a little vague: ''Nominations must be works of adult fiction published between June 1, 2014, and May 31, 2015, and should reflect Brooklyn's spirit,'' urged [...]

The decision by PEN American Center to give its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has prompted six writers to withdraw as literary [...]

Kirkus Reviews, the literary journal best known for its pre-publication reviews of forthcoming books, said on Wednesday evening that it was creating three new literary prizes -- for fiction, nonfiction [...]

For more than four decades, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been a uniquely British award, seeking to identify the best novel by authors from Ireland and the Commonwealth. [...]

The administrators of the Man Booker Prize released its longlist for this year's award on Tuesday, a list of 13 novels that was notable for its diversity. The Booker is [...]

Awards season isn't over quite yet. On Sunday the winners of the first annual Symmys awards, for outstanding palindrome achievement, will be announced in Portland, Ore. The name of the [...]

Looking to broaden its appeal to the public and increase its impact on sales, The National Book Foundation, which presents The National Book Awards, announced Tuesday that it would increase [...]

QUOTED 'Sometimes it does get real. Too real for a [director] who's trying to keep a diplomatic set.' Shia LaBeouf Talks to USA Today about dropping acid as part of [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER BOOKS Familiar names and former winners made little impression on the three-person jury that chose the long list of semi-finalists for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Among [...]

Byline: RUSSELL SMITH BOOKS rsmith@globeandmail.com Much scorn has been heaped on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes for deciding not to give out an award for fiction this year. The [...]

The literary world still has not recovered from its Pulitzer snub last week, when the absence of an award for fiction incensed publishers, authors and booksellers. But they may find [...]

One day after the Pulitzer Prize board said it would not award a Pulitzer in fiction for the first time in 35 years, the publishing industry was still seething, with [...]

A new prize awaits the best of the fiction to be published in 2012: The Literature Prize was recently founded by a group of authors, literary journalists and publishing types [...]

Byline: Molly Driscoll, Monitor contributor The 2011 National Book Award winners will be announced on Nov. 16. Which of these five books will be the winner of the award for [...]

Byline: Molly Driscoll The 2011 National Book Award fiction winner will be announced on Nov. 16. Which of these five novels will be the [...]

An eclectic group of 13 writers was chosen on Tuesday for the longlist of this year's Man Booker Prize, considered the most prestigious award for fiction in the English-speaking world. [...]

Mounting criticism and attention over word that the $25,000 Wendy Wasserstein Prize for playwriting would not be awarded this year because no script by a young female writer was deemed [...]

PEN American Center has teamed up with ESPN to create a new $5,000 award to honor the best nonfiction books about sports. ''Sports have inspired some of America's best writers, [...]

Byline: James Adams Today All five English-language nominees for this year's Governor-General's Literary Award in fiction read from their books. That would be Rawi Hage reading from Cockroach, Fred Stenson [...]

Byline: James Adams Three Americans are in the running for the inaugural Cundill International Prize in History, billed as 'the world's largest non-fiction historical prize,' Montreal's McGill University, the award's [...]

Byline: AFP Sydney, Australia -- Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee and Japan's Haruki Murakami were named yesterday to the long list for the richest prize for fiction in Australia, officials said. [...]

Byline: AP New York -- A winner of Canada's Giller Prize is among nominees for the Story Prize, a $20,000 (U.S.) award for the year's best short fiction. Giller-winner Vincent [...]

Byline: AP New York -- God Is Not Great author Christopher Hitchens, Tree of Smoke novelist Denis Johnson and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass are among the finalists for [...]

Byline: James Adams Toronto -- Organizers for the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction have named the three jurors for the 2007 prize, to be awarded in February in Toronto. [...]

Toronto -- Simon Armitage, Erin Moure and Tomaz Salamun , all internationally admired poets, are stepping up to the plate to judge the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prizes. Armitage, who lives [...]

The criteria applied by the judges for the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize to be awarded on Jun. 19, 1997, include not only good writing, but a good story. Most novelists would be incapable of inventing the stories that scientists tell. Scientists also provide data to back up their stories, increasing the marvel and mystery of life. However advances in science mean that stories keep moving on and have to be told again. Steve Jones won the Science Book Prize with his first book, but he might adopt a different approach to his subject, the role of genetics in human history, were he writing the book now.

In the mid-1800s, when the new game of baseball was capturing America's heart, the Jewish son of Dutch immigrants became one of the first professional players. Under the imaginative pen [...]

CHESTNUT HILL -- At its annual 'Sweet Sounds' event Nov. 21, Gateways: Access to Jewish Education will once again announce the winners of the Samuel A. Nemzoff Book Prize. This [...]

'The Restraint of Beasts' by Magnus Mills, a first-time novelist who works as a London, England, bus driver, has been included on the 1998 Booker Prize shortlist announced on Sep. 24, 1998. 'The Industry of Souls' by Martin Booth, only the second novel to be published by Stockport, England-based publisher Dewi Lewis, also features on the shortlist. The other names on the shortlist, Beryl Bainbridge, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Patrick McCabe are more familiar. Bookmakers immediately made McEwan the 6-4 favourite for the prize, the winner of which will be announced on Oct. 27, 1998.