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Remembering Scottish writer Iain BanksFamous for his unique writing skills, and an ability to move smoothly from reality to science fiction, Iain Banks has now stepped beyond the limits of science… 10/06/2013
‘Wilt’ author Tom Sharpe dies aged 85 One of Britain’s best known authors, Tom Sharpe, has died aged 85 in northeast Spain. His “Wilt” series of comedy books and other works such as “Porterhouse… 06/06/2013
Spanish writer wins Asturias Literature Award Spanish writer Antonio Munoz Molina has been awarded this years Asturias Literature prize. The novelist was one of 18 nominations from 11 different countries… 05/06/2013
Rooted to the classics Students are increasingly choosing vocational degree subjects in an effort to improve their chances of finding a good job. But are they right? Is a degree in… 22/03/2013
‘What took centuries to create in Italy was degraded in a very short time’ Like many countries in Europe, Italy is struggling with problems of its own making following sleaze, scandal and corruption, although it has received some… 21/02/2013
Austen still nice little runner 200 years on Two hundred years ago the public first got their hands on Jane Austen’s classic novel, “Pride and Prejudice” and centuries later its popularity endures. At… 29/01/2013
Inga’s FragmentsInga Zolude kindly allowed us to post on our website three extracts from her works, translated in three different languages. Here they are: - From her… 21/11/2012
The jury’s verdict on the Top 12 in the European Union Prize for LiteratureAnna Kim, Austria The war in the former Yugoslavia left behind many wounds. More than 30,000 people were reported missing by the International Red Cross… 19/11/2012
Unchain my language! Writing is a solitary game, where the goal is to get your work read by as many people as possible. For most authors the dream is to get your books out into… 19/11/2012
Neil Gaiman’s secret: ‘You put one word after another until you are done’Writing is a passion, of course, but it’s not as easy as it seems. It demands a lot of work and thinking. How does a famous writer like Neil Gaiman deal… 17/11/2012
Random Penguin unleashed on publishing world Random Penguin might sound like some unlistenable 70s rock band, but the publishing house created by Pearson’s book unit merging with Bertelsmann’s Random… 29/10/2012
Digitising the past Although millions of books are scanned and put online every year, making old documents and texts available on the web is a difficult and painstaking… 11/09/2012
Rediscovering a love of reading The Arab Thought Foundation estimates that most people in the Arab world spend less than six minutes a year reading a book. Some projects are fighting back… 07/09/2012
International Literacy Day ‘wake up call’ for Europe As the world marked International Literacy Day - new figures showed many Europeans still lack basic reading and writing skills. Roughly one in five… 06/09/2012
Roth wins Asturias Literature prize The Asturias award for Literature has gone to American writer Philip Roth. It is the fifth of the eight annual prizes to be announced ahead of October’s… 06/06/2012
Marek Halter: you don’t get democracy through the barrel of a gun The French writer Marek Halter is an all-round intellectual and human rights activist. From humble beginnings he escaped life in a Warsaw ghetto to settle in… 20/04/2012
Official chill falls on Serbia’s intellectuals The Serbian authorities are in the middle of a witch-hunt against critical intellectuals, whose most recent victim, Sreten Ugricic was for over a decade the… 09/03/2012
Enter the world of Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ is one of English author Charles Dickens’ most famous stories. Sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge’s emotional transformation after the… 06/02/2012
Poland’s Nobel Prize poet Wislawa Szymborska dies The woman once described as the “Mozart of poetry”, Poland’s 1996 Nobel Prize winner, Wislawa Szymborska has died at her home in Krakow. She was 88. Despite… 02/02/2012
‘Anonymous’ revives the Shakespeare debate Hark! You can hear the sound of feathers being ruffled from here over Roland Emmerich’s ‘Anonymous’. The German-born director has had another pop at one of… 31/10/2011
A wall of books at FrankfurtAn employee of the German publishing house Droemer-Knaur works on a large bookshelf at the book fair in Frankfurt in Germany. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach 11/10/2011
Digitising the British Library The British Library in London contains 150 million books. Searching through them is time consuming, only one person can read any given book at a time, and… 01/09/2011
Korea’s digital schoolbook drive Replacing paper educational manuals with digital textbooks is happening in countries throughout the world but South Korea is especially keen. Nearly two… 25/07/2011
Gonçalo M. Tavares on man, machines and societyModern society tends to value machines more than humans according to one of the biggest names in contemporary Portuguese literature. Gonçalo M. Tavares was… 31/05/2011
Back in the Day: introducing DraculaMay 18, 1897. Irish writer Bram Stoker presents ‘Dracula’ to a small audience at the Lyceum Theatre in London, a week before the eponymous novel was first… 17/05/2011
Amin Maalouf: World economy is not a casino The French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf is celebrating after winning the prestigious Spanish award, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. With his work… 21/10/2010
Still proud and prejudiced after all these yearsIt is 200 years since Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published, and even after all that time it is showing little sign of losing any of its enormous… 28/01/2013
German and Dutch writers take European Book PrizeThis year’s European Book Prize winners are Dutch writer Luuk van Middelaar and Germany’s Rolf Bauerdick. Taking the essay category, Van Middelaar won the… 06/12/2012
New letters from novelist Mann discoveredA new collection of letters and postcards by literary nobel prize winner Thomas Mann have been found. The writings of the German novelist, most known for his… 22/11/2012
Corsican novel wins France’s top book prizeFrance’s top literary prize, the Goncourt, has been won by a Philosophy teacher, with a novel set in crime-ridden Corsica. ‘The Sermon on the Fall of Rome’… 07/11/2012
Mantel wins the Booker prize for the second timeBritish writer Hilary Mantel has become the first woman to win the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction for a second time.“Bring Up the Bodies”, the… 17/10/2012
China’s Mo Yan wins Nobel prize for literatureChinese writer Mo Yan has won this year’s Nobel prize for Literature. The man himself, who’s pen name means “Don’t speak” is said to have been overjoyed… 11/10/2012
China’s pro-party Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize for LiteratureChinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. The announcement was made by Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Peter Englund… 11/10/2012
Chinese author Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel prize for literatureThe 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”, according to the… 11/10/2012
2012 Nobel Literature laureate to be revealedThere is feverish speculation ahead of today’s announcement of the 2012 Nobel prize for Literature. The safe bets are on Japanese author Haruki Murakami. But… 11/10/2012
Arnie lends some muscle to Frankfurt Book FairArnold Schwarzenegger has lent some muscle to the Frankfurt Book Fair. The 65-year-old Terminator star presented his freshly-published autobiography to… 11/10/2012
Maori warriors open Franfurt Book FairA group of Maori warriors formed an unlikely welcome party for officials at this year’s Frankfurt book fair. Germany’s Foreign Minister did not seem too… 10/10/2012
Life after Harry Potter? JK Rowling’s first book for adultsHarry Potter fans have had five years to grow up since the last installment of the fantasy novel. Some commentators say they need to have matured quite a lot… 27/09/2012
Arnie’s back with new book and think tankFormer California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is attempting to reboot his image by launching a new think tank and autobiography. The 65-year-old has… 26/09/2012
Anti-film protests echo Salman Rushdie furoreThe deep anger that’s been felt across the Muslim world over the controversial anti-Islam film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ echoes similar demonstrations more than… 18/09/2012
Author Richard Bach injured in plane crashAmerican author Richard Bach has been seriously injured in a plane crash. The writer of the 1970s bestseller ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ hit power lines… 02/09/2012
Gore Vidal: Death of an American literary giantLiterary giant Gore Vidal, who has died aged 86, will be widely remembered as one of the finest post-war American writers. He penned dozens of novels and… 01/08/2012
Garcia Marquez dementia confirmedIt has been confirmed Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia. Rumours about the health of the Colombian Nobel-prize winning author of One Hundred… 07/07/2012
New book of writings by Che Guevara publishedNever before seen photographs and writings by Che Guevara have been published in a book titled “Philosophical Notes.” The book plots his time in Tanzania… 14/06/2012
Anne Frank anniversaryIt is 70 years since Anne Frank made her first diary entry. The young Jewish girl – who received the diary as a present for her 13th Birthday on June 12… 12/06/2012
Science fiction author Ray Bradbury dies at 91Avid readers of science fiction around the world are mourning the death of the Pulitzer prize winning author Ray Bradbury who has died at the age of… 07/06/2012
Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies aged 83One of Latin America’s most celebrated and widely read authors, Carlos Fuentes has died in Mexico at the age of 83. His literary career spanned five decades… 16/05/2012
Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be republished in GermanyAdolf Hitler’s infamous memoir Mein Kampf is to be reprinted in Germany for the first time in 70 years. According to newspaper reports the new addition is… 25/04/2012
Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi dead at 68Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi has died at the age of 68. He passed away in Lisbon on Sunday after a long illness. Tabucchi was also a professor who… 25/03/2012
Iran: Groundbreaking woman novelist diesPioneering author Simin Daneshvar, dubbed Iran’s first female novelist, has died at the age of 90 in Tehran. The influential writer, translator and… 09/03/2012
Celebration of writer Dickens’ birth 200 years agoCommemorations for the 200th anniversary of the birth of renowned British author Charles Dickens were lead by his royal namesake. Prince Charles laid a wreath… 07/02/2012
Cuba’s Castro unveils ‘Guerilla of Time’ memoirsFormer Cuban president Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance at the launch of his memoirs in Havana. The 85-year-old was promoting ‘A Guerilla of… 05/02/2012
British writer Christopher Hitchens dies at 62The British-born author and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62. He made the US his home and backed its invasion of Iraq. Hitchens died in… 16/12/2011
German author Christa Wolf dies at 82Christa Wolf, one of Germany’s most celebrated writers for her depictions of life in the former communist East, has died aged 82. A committed Marxist… 02/12/2011
Plagiarism case dropped against German ex-ministerProsecutors have dropped an investigation into alleged copyright violations by Germany’s former defence minister. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned after… 24/11/2011
Jenni wins France’s top literary awardAlexis Jenni has won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the 108-year-old Prix Goncourt, for his first novel ‘L’Art francais de la guerre’ or ‘The… 02/11/2011
Sweden’s most famous living poet wins Nobel prizeThe Nobel Prize for Literature has come home to Sweden for the first time in nearly four decades. Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer won this year’s… 06/10/2011
Swedish poet wins Nobel literature prizeThe 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer. The 80-year-old will receive a cash prize of just over one million… 06/10/2011
Taped interviews reveal a new Jackie KennedyThe closest thing to a personal memoir of Jackie Kennedy has been published revealing a previously unknown side of the former US first lady. The book is… 15/09/2011
Original manuscript tops estimatesAt Sotheby’s auction house in London the earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript sold for just over one point one million euros. The handwritten draft for… 15/07/2011
Bahrain frees young dissident poetAuthorities in Bahrain have freed 200 political prisoners, including a young woman poet jailed for severely criticising the crown prince during pro-democracy… 14/07/2011
Back in the day: The story of to Kill a MockingbirdJuly 11, 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird is first published. The author Harper Lee hailed from the racially intolerant southern town of Monroeville, Alabama… 08/07/2011
Back in the Day: the story of Alice in WonderlandJuly 4, 1862: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, later to be known to the literary world as Lewis Carroll, invents a story to entertain a friend’s daughter, Alice… 04/07/2011
Saramago’s ashes scattered in LisbonOn the first anniversary of the death of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago the 1998 Nobel literature prizewinner’s ashes have been scattered at the… 19/06/2011
How to cross Dublin without passing a pubThe challenge was set in James Joyce’s 1922 classic ‘Ulysses’, when the main character Leopold Bloom muses “Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing… 17/06/2011
Back in the Day: the Vatican lifts its ban on bad booksJune 14, 1966: Pope Paul VI formally abolishes the Catholic Church’s ban on books deemed immoral or theologically inaccurate. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum… 13/06/2011
Intimate funeral for Jorge SemprunFamily and close friends have gathered for the funeral of Jorge Semprun near Paris. The Spanish writer, resistance fighter and former Spanish culture minister… 12/06/2011
Tributes for Jorge SemprunJorge Semprun was active in Spanish politics, albeit behind the scenes, in campaigning against the rule of General Franco. But 13 years after Franco’s death… 08/06/2011
Semprun dead at 87The Spanish writer and left-wing political activist Jorge Semprun has died at the age of 87. He experienced first hand many of the historic upheavals of the… 08/06/2011
Celebrated European author Jorge Semprún diesJorge Semprún, the renowned Spanish writer, politician and political activist has died at his home in Paris at the age of 87. Semprún was born in Spain but… 08/06/2011
Back in the Day: introducing Big BrotherJune 8, 1949. George Orwell’s iconic novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is published, introducing readers to Big Brother. Orwell’s dystopian tale of a society whose… 07/06/2011
British author goes to jail for death-penalty bookAlan Shadrake, a British author, has begun a six week prison sentence in Singapore after a court there rejected his appeal. Shadrake was convicted of… 03/06/2011
Multiple intelligence prof wins Asturias prizeThe Prince of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences has been won by Howard Gardner, an American psychologist who developed the theory of multiple intelligences… 11/05/2011
London honours literature’s invisible greatsLiterature’s invisible figures were honoured in London on January 31 in an event to celebrate literary translation. The British Centre for Literary… 01/02/2011
Nobel winners attend gala dinnerThis year’s Nobel Prize winners were honoured in Oslo and Stockholm on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee held a ceremony for Chinese dissident and peace… 11/12/2010
Anti-mafia writer Saviano scoops Europe Book PrizeThe European Parliament has rarely seen so much excitement underpinned by heavy security. The occasion was the awarding of the 2010 Europe Book Prize to… 09/12/2010
New Mark Twain book, 100 years after his deathIt is better late than never for one of America’s most celebrated authors. One hundred years after his death, Mark Twain has a new book out – the first… 17/11/2010
Fans flock to see penultimate Harry PotterIt’s the beginning of the end for Harry Potter and friends. ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, the seventh and penultimate film in the series… 11/11/2010
Bush memoirs stir strong feelingsLove him or hate him, he is back in the spotlight. George W. Bush is pulling out all the stops in a major publicity blitz to promote his presidential… 10/11/2010
Ricky Martin: MeWhen Latino crooner Ricky Martin attended a book signing in New York, the fans came out in force. He was signing copies of his autobiography, “Me” which he… 04/11/2010
Del Bosque ignores the script at Asturias prizesQuenn Sofia, Crown Prince Felipé and his wife Letizia were in attendance for the 30th Prince of Asturias prizegiving ceremony in Oviedo on Friday night. The… 22/10/2010
Peru’s Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. He is one of Latin America’s most significant authors with a… 07/10/2010
The lost Monroe snapsMore than 100 never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe have just been published in a book called Marilyn August 1953: The Lost Look Photos. 07/10/2010
Peru’s Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The Nobel Committee handed the 74-year-old the prize for… 07/10/2010
Funeral for Portuguese Nobel Laureate in LisbonHundreds of people have paid their last respects to author, Jose Saramago, the only Portuguese writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His… 20/06/2010
Funeral service for Nobel laureate in LisbonThe body of Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago has arrived in Lisbon for a funeral later today. Saramago’s remains were flown from his home on the… 19/06/2010
Obituary: José SaramagoOne of the highlights of José Saramago’s career was at the age of 76, when he received the Nobel prize for literature in 1998. This was a writer who had… 18/06/2010
Nobel Prize winning author Saramago dead at 87Portuguese Nobel-prize winning author Jose Saramago has died at his home in Lanzarote at the age of 87. He moved to the Spanish Canary Islands in symbolic… 18/06/2010
Maalouf takes Asturias prize for lettersThe Prince of Asturias Award for Letters has gone to Lebanese born writer Amin Maalouf. Maalouf’s novels include “The Rock of Tanios” and “The Gardens of… 09/06/2010
Elif Şafak, Turkey’s most-read woman novelistElif Şafak is Turkey’s most popular female writer. She has also gained fame abroad, not only for her literary accomplishments but also because of the lawsuit… 06/06/2010
Fragments of Monroe revealed in diary extractsMarilyn Monroe was many things to many people – cinematic icon, sex symbol and glamour queen – one thing she was not known for – until now – was her writing. 03/05/2010
To tweet or not to tweet?Re-writing the classics in the style of Twitter will strike some as sacrilegious, some as side-splitting. For the authors – American literature students… 05/04/2010
Spanish writer Miguel Delibes diesOne of Spain’s most acclaimed writers Miguel Delibes has died. He was 89 and had been battling cancer for several years. Famed for his gritty depictions of… 12/03/2010
Italy gives Google a million books to scanUp to million books are set to be given a new lease of life as part of a digital deal between Italy and Google. The internet search giant is to scan the… 12/03/2010
Author and former jockey Dick Francis diesBest-selling British crime writer and former jockey Dick Francis has died at the age of 89. With over 40 novels to his name which were translated into 20… 15/02/2010
Writing you could wearThe exhibition is called 20 suits for Europe, but it is not about the suits who keep our European institutions ticking over, rather it is a display of dresses… 09/02/2010
Literature lovers honour ChekovCelebrations have begun around the world to mark the 150th birthday of Anton Chekov, one of Russia’s most loved and universally acclaimed playwrights. The… 30/01/2010
‘Catcher in the Rye’ author dies aged 91Reclusive American author J.D. Salinger who wrote the post-war literary classic “The Catcher in the Rye” has died of natural causes aged 91 at his home in New… 29/01/2010
Eastern European writers assess EU integrationTwenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, European authors are still trying to make sense of the impact. China may have been the guest of honour at… 25/12/2009
Nobel laureates pick up prizes in StockholmAt a lavish ceremony in Stockholm the 2009 Nobel Prize winners in the categories of Economics, Literature, Chemistry, Physics and Medicine received their… 10/12/2009
