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Byline: Alex Clark Kate Atkinson has an idea for a fun side-hustle: at some point in the future, when she's done with the second world war, and with her jaded [...]

Byline: Oliver Wainwright Among the names of mostly white men and a few women that have been carved into the marble walls of the Royal Institute of British Architects since [...]

USPS honors acclaimed chronicler of immigrant experience with new stamp CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Author Saul Bellow was honored today with a new stamp, the 34th [...]

USPS honors acclaimed chronicler of immigrant experience with new stamp CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Author Saul Bellow was honored today with a new stamp, the 34th in the [...]

CHICAGO -- The following information was released by the U.S. Postal Service: Author Saul Bellow was honored today with a new stamp, the 34th in the Postal Service's Literary Arts [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The following information was released by Brown University: A first-year student in Brown's English Ph.D. program, Chen recently received the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award [...]

Byline: Caroline Davies Two giants of the literary world, the novelists Ian McEwan and the late Martin Amis, are recognised in the king's first official birthday honours along with the [...]

Byline: CIARÁN GILES M; ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID, SPAIN -- Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year's Princess of Asturias Award for literature, the Spanish foundation that organizes the [...]

Byline: Amanda Craig Kate Saunders, who has died aged 62, was a prize-winning novelist, journalist and critic whose many achievements emerged despite a life of suffering and loss. Kate initially [...]

NOTRE DAME, Ind. -- The following information was released by the University of Notre Dame: Author: JP Shortall Renowned author Colson Whitehead will visit the University of Notre Dame on [...]

Byline: Francesca Negro (https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing-ccww/ccww-author-pages/portuguese/paulina) Paulina Chiziane, the first woman to publish a (https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/Balada_de_amor_ao_vento/0ccvAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=Balada%20de%20Amor%20ao%20Vento) novel in Mozambique, has become the first African woman to (https://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/gc23/communication/news-item?i=prize-giving-ceremony-for-the-camoes-prize-to-paulina-chiziane#:%7E:text=Set%20up%20by%20Portugal%20and,heritage%20of%20the%20Portuguese%20language.) receive the most important award for [...]

Byline: Christina Barron Meg Medina, author of the award-winning Merci Suárez series, was named the Library of Congress's National Ambassador for Young People's Literature on Wednesday. The two-year position involves [...]

Byline: REBECCA TUCKER; Staff That art would begin to imitate pandemic life was bound to happen, two years into the crisis. But in the case of Emily St. John Mandel, [...]

The prestigious French literary award went to ''Living Fast,'' or ''Vivre Vite,'' which explores the causes of an accident that killed the author's partner. PARIS -- Brigitte Giraud won the [...]

The prestigious French literary award went to ''Living Fast,'' or ''Vivre Vite,'' which explores the causes of an accident that killed the author's partner. PARIS -- Brigitte Giraud won the [...]

The Sri Lankan writer received the award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, for his second novel, which examines the trauma of his country's decades-long civil [...]

Byline: Sarah Shaffi Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed earlier this year shortly before giving a lecture, is among the favourites to win this year's Nobel prize for literature, according to [...]

NORTHAMPTON: Debut novelist and Newsweek Expert Forum contributor Suzanne Mattaboni announces that her novel has won two separate literary awards as revealed this month. Once in a Lifetime, which Kirkus [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- A septuagenarian retired bricklayer is among the six debut novelists in the running for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Brian Thomas Isaac, who [...]

Byline: By, Ryan Merrifield A famous 198-year-old Russian oak tree was been banned from entering the European Tree of the Year competition due to the ongoing invasion in Ukraine. Planted [...]

Byline: GLOBE STAFF, Staff Lead The names include authors, musicians and judges, scientists who have worked for decades to innovate and invent, and community advocates who toiled at the grassroots [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger The work of one woman was, it turned out, the equivalent of the labors of three men. That was at least the case for Spain's top writer [...]

Byline: ARUNA DUTT, Staff Lead Egyptian-Canadian author Omar El Akkad's novel What Strange Paradise is among the five writers shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize on Tuesday. Known for his [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead TORONTO A comedic novel by celebrated Manitoba-bred author Miriam Toews is among the finalists for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust fiction prize. Fight [...]

Khartoum -- Sudanese novelist Atef Alhaj Saeed has won the first prize in the Tawfiq Bakkar Award for Arabic Novel 2021. Organizers of the Tunisia - based Award announced last [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-October 8, 2021-: President Samia Congratulates Tanzanian Novelist for Winning Nobel Prize (C)1994-2021 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:08102021 President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who scooped2021 Nobel [...]

Byline: Esther Takwa President Samia Suluhu Hassan has congratulated Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who scooped 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. On her congratulatory message to the Tanzanian icon [...]

Raven Leilani was awarded VCU's Cabell First Novelist Award for her debut book, 'Luster.' Photo courtesy of Nina Subin. Book cover credit to Picador Zahra Ndirangu, Contributing Writer New York-based [...]

St. Louis, MO -- The following information was released by St. Louis University: by Maggie Rotermund on 09/20/2021 ST. LOUIS -- Saint Louis University Library Associates today announce author Arundhati [...]

Yu Miri won a National Book Award for ''Tokyo Ueno Station,'' a novel whose main character is the ghost of a homeless construction worker. TOKYO -- Walking on an autumn [...]

The writer N. K. Jemisin and the playwright Larissa FastHorse are among the fellows recognized for their ''exceptional creativity'' with a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000. When MacArthur called, N. K. [...]