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Tales of Triumph Win Top children’s UK Book Awards

The stories of a dyslexic hero and a little girl who overcomes her family's fear of a stray dog won two of Britain's most coveted children's literature prizes on Wednesday.

"Maggot Moon" by Sally Gardner outshone Booker prize-winner Roddy Doyle to win the Carnegie medal for a book starring dyslexic hero Standish, who takes on a sinister ... Read More

Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito (2ndR), at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. - AFP, June 20, 2013.

Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito (2ndR), at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. - AFP, June 20, 2013.

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Sri Lankan- born author Kretser wins top Australian Literary prize

Sri Lankan-born author Michelle de Kretser won Australia's top literature prize on Wednesday, awarded the Miles Franklin award for her novel "Questions of Travel" that follows two people on separate ... Read More

Few takers at Faulkner auction in NY

June 17, 2013, New York - A major auction of manuscripts and letters of American writer William Faulkner, a Nobel laureate, drew an underwhelming public response at auction in New York Tuesday, with the ... Read More

Salman Rushdie to recieve 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award

Denmark, June 16, 2013 - British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie (pic) , author of "Midnight's Children," has been announced winner of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Litteraturpris, an award given every ... Read More

Pulitzer-winner Gellman writing book on rise of spy state

NEW YORK, June 14 — Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barton Gellman is writing a book on the “rise of the surveillance-industrial state” after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, publisher ... Read More

Long-lost diary of top Hitler aide offers window into Nazi soul

WILMINGTON (Delaware), June 14 — US officials yesterday unveiled the 400-page diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, who oversaw the genocide against Jews and others during World War ... Read More

Book Talk: English history with a twist in ‘The Boleyn King’

By Elaine Lies

TOKYO, June 13 – What would have happened if Anne Boleyn, the wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, had given her husband the son he so desperately wanted instead of miscarrying and eventually ... Read More

Could school-gate politics replace mommy porn for women readers?

LONDON, June 13 — A British writer whose debut novel about mothers at the school gate sparked a seven-way bidding war between publishers has attributed the overnight success of her book to striking a ... Read More

Rare 1938 Superman comic book fetches RM525,000

LOS ANGELES, June 13 — A rare 75-year-old comic book featuring the debut of Superman found in a Minnesota home’s wall fetched US$175,000 (RM525,000) at auction, comic book seller Comicconnect.com said ... Read More

Greg Iles to write more Penn Cage thrillers

NEW YORK, June 12 — Fans of Greg Iles’ Penn Cage books can look forward to several more of the thrillers with the announcement of a new trilogy, the first of which is slated for release in May 2014, the ... Read More

Comic writer’s Ghost Rider copyright lawsuit revived on appeal

NEW YORK, June 12 — A comic book writer who claims he created the flaming-skulled character called Ghost Rider got another chance to press his claim yesterday when a US appeals court revived his lawsuit ... Read More