Topic: Europe
MILAN (Reuters) - Nowadays when people spend more and more time exploring the depths of cyber space or just watching TV, every effort counts to bring them back to the traditional pleasure of reading.A leading Italian book store chain Feltrinelli and wine-makers ...
US student Amanda Knox has hired a top lawyer used by politicians including Barack Obama and Tony Blair to negotiate a book deal about her four years behind bars in Italy, her spokesman said.The 24-year-old, who flew home in October after being ...
Chile's 97-year-old poet Nicanor Parra has won the Cervantes Prize, the culture ministry said Thursday, the oldest person to win the leading literary award for works in Spanish.The prize honours a writer's life work and it carries with it a cash award ...
A jury including provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq handed out a book prize Wednesday dubbed the "Goncourt for pets", in a nod to France's top literary award, to a Paris vet and first-time writer.Awarded by the French animal protection group 30 Millions ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden is the only place the new Hollywood version of best-selling crime novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" could have been shot, director David Fincher said on Monday.The film, which premieres on December 21, stars Daniel Craig as ...
Blogger Yoani Sanchez denounced the travel restrictions and censorship imposed on dissidents like her in communist Cuba, as she introduced her latest book at a Miami book fair via telephone.Sanchez, named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential ...
British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, at the fourth attempt, for his novel "The Sense of an Ending".Barnes picked up the £50,000 ($80,000, 57,000 euros) award, which recognises the ...
Booksellers in Britain were expecting to sell thousands of copies of Japanese author Haruki Murakami's latest novel on Tuesday as excitement built after some stores held special late-night openings.Hardback versions of the book, "1Q84", went on sale across Britain a week ahead ...
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 ...
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 ...
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