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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.
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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’
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
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- Scottish author Iain Banks dies
- Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk dead at 83
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- Unpredictable IMPAC Dublin Literary Award won by ‘City of Bohane’ author Kevin Barry
- ‘May We Be Forgiven’ wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
- Pippa Middleton signs on as Vanity Fair contributor
- British author Tom Sharpe dies aged 85
- US writer A.M. Homes denies Hilary Mantel literary treble
- Publishers gave Amazon ‘ultimatum’ over e-book pricing, court told
- Malorie Blackman named UK Children’s Laureate
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- Online demand boosts market for rarest books
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