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Celebration of writer Dickens’ birth 200 years ago Commemorations 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
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
Cuba’s Castro unveils ‘Guerilla of Time’ memoirs Former 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
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
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
Humour wins the day at European Book PrizeThis year’s European Book Prize, worth 10,000 euros to each winner, has recognised both humour and a genre known as ‘literary reportage’. The idea behind… 10/12/2009
Turkey has place in a Europe of “liberté, egalité, and fraternité” says PamukHe is not just the 2006 Nobel Literature Laureate. Orhan Pamuk is also a symbol of Turkey’s struggle to be part of the EU. In recent weeks, he has been… 28/11/2009
Mitterrand praises free speech over politicsFrance’s culture minister is playing peacemaker in a row over free speech and the winner of the country’s most prestigious literary award. In an interview… 12/11/2009
Interview with Ismail Kadare, Albanian writerAlbanian writer Ismail Kadare recently added the Prince of Asturias prize to a long list of awards for his work. The jury describes his novels like an “open… 20/10/2009
Romanian/German author wins Nobel prizeA life spent chronicling the brutality of dictatorships has propelled Romanian-born German Herta Mueller to this year’s Nobel Literature prize. The… 09/10/2009
Mueller surprise winner of Nobel Literature AwardThe Nobel committee has surprised many with the announcement that this year’s literature prize has gone to Herta Mueller. The official making the… 08/10/2009
Herta Müller wins Nobel literature prizeThe 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to German writer Herta Müller. The Swedish Academy that decides the winner recognised her ability to… 08/10/2009
Brussels does bookkeeping with GoogleBooks on the Internet, democratically accessible now but perhaps expensive in the future… The Internet search group Google has been defending its scanning and… 07/09/2009
Literary hero Mario Benedetti diesOne of Uruguay’s most celebrated writers, Mario Benedetti, has died. The 88-year-old lived in exile during Uruguay’s military regime from 1973 to 83, and… 18/05/2009
Madame Bovary online150 years after Gustave Flaubert finished his masterpiece Madame Bovary, his handwritten manuscript has been unveiled on line. The original handwritten pages… 24/04/2009
France’s Kouchner under attack in new bookFrance’s most popular politician, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, is under fire in a book published today. In a conflict of interests scandal, he is being… 04/02/2009
Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter diesThe man regarded as Britain’s finest contemporary playwright, Harold Pinter, has died at the age of 78. He had been suffering from cancer; his death was… 25/12/2008
‘Postwar’ wins second European Book PrizeEurope has rewarded British historian Tony Judt for his study of how the continent recovered from the horrors of World War Two. “Apres Guerre” or “Postwar”… 11/12/2008
