Literature News

Last night I attended the prize ceremony for the inaugural Wellcome Trust book prize , awarded to "outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine". I was attracted by its slightly barmy mixing of literary disciplines.

Did anybody else grow readingand re-reading - Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness ? Ever since my college experience changed my ideas about what is and isn't Great Literature, I have looked back at my pre-teen obsession with Peretti's novels of spiritual warfare with a mixture of mild embarrassment and nostalgia.

A woman of French and Senegalese descent has won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for a novel detailing the harrowing experiences of three women who struggle to preserve their dignity.

It's no real surprise that Wikipedia has a thorough list of these , but it's interesting to parse through the many, and find a neat collection of songs and albums that were based on, or influenced by books.

Last week, Shelley Plett wrote about NaNoWriMo, the contest in which one writes a 50,000-word novel in 30 days, specifically Nov.

Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, who went into exile during the country's decades of dictatorship, died Tuesday.

For nearly 20 years, Reverend Martin Weskott has been saving books printed in the former East Germany from the rubbish heap of history.

French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize Monday for "Three Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of woman in Europe and Africa.

The master of deductive reasoning, he has kept readers, cinema-goers and crazed fans guessing for more than a century.

THIS year's Biggar Little Festival, which featured 78 events from October 15 to 25, was literally well Polished! Chairman Mike Chad said that one of his favourite Festival memories was the impact made by 24 singers from Murowana Goslina in Poland.

A photo of Old Sanaa a decorates the newest issue of Banipal magazine, its 36th issue to date.

Former Mayor Funky Communications Dude is busy as hell, working on a new novel and doing a lot of other things around town.

Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world's largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, are proud to announce their partnership to distribute the highly regarded Gale Virtual Reference Library e-book collection.

Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world.

Chick-fil-A announced that for the 2010 edition of its annual cow-themed calendar, the Chick-fil-A cows give a bovine twist to 12 classic novels to create the Great Works of Cow Literature calendar.

Following is the viewpoint of the writer, a professor of English and former president of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

Thanks to Many books and my ereader, I've just finished reading Grant Allen's The british barbarians.

Three of New Zealand - s most celebrated writers - " C K Stead, Brian Turner and Dr Ranginui Walke r were honoured at tonight's 2009 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement at Premier House in Wellington.

Canadians still can't get the Kindle, Amazon's lusted after gadget that's pushing ebooks into the mainstream, but that's fine with tech-savvy author Kate Pullinger, who has bigger visions for electronic literature than simply making digital copies of paperbacks.

Published Tuesday 27 October 2009 07:17pm EST. Someone recently accosted a friend of mine with the snide remark, "I bet you read... literary fiction." My friend, a nice bookish young man, innocently agreed that most of his reading choices were, in fact, literary fiction.