UK: American author wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize with bestselling epic ‘The Kindly Ones’
US author Littell wins Bad Sex in fiction prize Mexico’s Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize, Spanish-speaking world’s top literary honor
Mexican Pacheco wins Cervantes literary award Army relents, will allow media at Palin event in NC despite concerns about anti-Obama politics
Army relents, will allow media at Palin book event AP Interview: Guenter Grass surprised by success of “Tin Drum” 50 years onGOETTINGEN, Germany — Fifty years after he rocketed to the international stage with “The Tin Drum,” Guenter Grass is still surprised at the overnight success of his tale of World War II as told through the eyes of a stunted boy and his toy instrument. Google to launch new Google Editions platform to sell books accessible anywhereFRANKFURT — Google Inc. is launching a new service for booksellers next year called Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them anywhere on gadgets ranging from cell phones to possibly e-book devices. Tycoon stories and Darwin books get National Book Award nominationsNEW YORK — The subjects of this year’s National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors. Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prizeSTOCKHOLM — Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse. Anti-prostitution group files lawsuit in Mexico to keep Garcia Marquez book off the big screen
Nobel glory, $1.4 million check await handful of world’s top scientists
Russia makes once-banned book on horrors of Soviet Gulag required reading in schoolsMOSCOW — The book that made “Gulag” a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist cause and exiled its author. Museum opens for Norwegian Nobel laureate writer and Nazi sympathizerOSLO — Crown Princess Mette-Marit has opened Norway’s first museum dedicated to Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun, whose literary talent was overshadowed by his later Nazi sympathies. Exhibit of author Alice Walker’s literary archive goes on display at Emory UniversityATLANTA — Even from a young age, author Alice Walker was keeping a record. Emory University to unveil Alice Walker literary archive this week with symposium, readingATLANTA — Emory University is unveiling the literary archives of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker for the first time since she donated the collection to the Atlanta school a year ago. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jimmy Breslin’s daughter dies after collapsing at NYC restaurantNEW YORK — The daughter of writer Jimmy Breslin has died after collapsing at a New York City restaurant four days earlier. New Guinea tribesmen sue author Jared Diamond for libelNEW YORK — Two New Guinea tribesmen have filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit claiming Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond wrote a New Yorker magazine article that falsely accused them of murder and other crimes. Poet Linda Gregg is the third winner of the $50,000 Jackson PrizeNEW YORK — Poet Linda Gregg has won the third annual Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award given to an author who has written at least one book of “recognized literary merit,” but has yet to receive wide attention. |
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Group sues in Mexico to stop Garcia Marquez movie
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