Topic: Books And Literature
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Young adult novelist Lauren Myracle said on Monday she had withdrawn her latest novel "Shine" from the 2011 National Book Awards after being told it had been short-listed by mistake.Myracle, author of teen best-sellers "ttyl" and ttfn" and ...
LONDON (Reuters) - English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as "posh bingo," is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel "The Sense of an Ending."The annual award to a writer ...
The winner of Britain's Man Booker prize for literature is announced on Tuesday, but the ceremony has been overshadowed by the launch of a rival award that claims the Booker has become too populist.Julian Barnes remains the favourite for his novel "The ...
Raghad, a daughter of executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, plans to publish her father's memoirs, her Jordanian lawyer said on Sunday."Raghad is looking for an international publishing company to publish her father's memoirs, which he himself wrote," Haitham Herish told Al-Ghad newspaper."These ...
A retired Pakistani civil servant nearing 80 may not sound like the most obvious debut author to take the international publishing world by storm, but Jamil Ahmad has done precisely that.Over a cup of tea and a glass of lime juice, he ...
A group which has translated nine books about the Holocaust both into Arabic and Farsi for the first time appealed Thursday for publishers, saying "young people are yearning for this".Launched in 2009, the Aladdin Project has already translated "The Diary of Anne ...
The father of Amy Winehouse will write a memoir about the late British soul star to be released in the summer of 2012, with all proceeds going to charity, according to the publisher.In the memoir, to be entitled "Amy: My Daughter," Mitch ...
The world's biggest book fair, which opened Tuesday, wants to put paid to fears for the survival of the book in its traditional, bound form in the face of its digital rival's growing popularity.While electronic books and other gadgets have been all ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress and filmmaker Penny Marshall, who transitioned from her role as tough-talking Laverne in hit TV show "Laverne and Shirley" to become a pioneering female director, is releasing a memoir about her rise in Hollywood, her agent said ...
The release date for the first authorized biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been pushed forward to October 24 following his death, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday.The 656-page book by Walter Isaacson, entitled simply "Steve Jobs," had been scheduled for ...
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