Topic: Western Europe
Julian Barnes remains the favourite to win Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for literature after his "The Sense of an Ending" was nominated on the shortlist announced Tuesday.Debut novelists Stephen Kelman and A. D. Miller are also among the six finalists, made ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - British author Glen Duncan has published seven critically acclaimed novels, often exploring touchy topics such as violence and perversity as well as love and morality.He has employed the fantastic -- in his earlier book "I, Lucifer" the devil ...
The longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced Tuesday after being selected by a panel of judges headed by a former MI5 intelligence chief.The list of 13, picked from a total of 138 books, includes former winner Alan Hollinghurst, who ...
GIJON, Spain (Reuters Life!) - Simply scaring his readers is not enough for horror fiction writer Ramsey Campbell -- he wants to make them think too.Described by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as "Britain's most respected living horror writer," Campbell has ...
ABOARD THE NOIR TRAIN (Reuters Life!) - One of Europe's biggest literary festivals convenes for the 24th time in Spain on Friday in its annual bid to convince all comers that books are fun by mixing literary events with a fun fair.A ...
Ahead of the biggest game of French women's footballing history it wasn't semi-final rivals the United States which were worrying France coach Bruno Bini.During a surrealist pre-match press conference ahead of their Women's World Cup semi-final, talk wasn't on tactics and line-ups ...
Ricky Martin's M.A.S. world tour has landed in the UK, where he's told a daily that coming out gay made him feel protectedRicky Martin's M.A.S. world tour has landed in the UK, where he's told a daily that coming out gay made ...
The ashes of Portugal's Nobel literature prize winner Jose Saramago were scattered under an olive tree Saturday brought from his native village and replanted near the Tagus river in Lisbon.Saramago's death on June 18 last year, aged 87, unleashed a massive outpouring ...
Spanish writer, left-wing activist and former culture minister Jorge Semprun died in Paris on Tuesday aged 87, his grandson Thomas Landman said.Semprun, who went into exile in France with his family after the Spanish Civil War, died "very peacefully" at home, Landman ...
Spain's Royal Historical Academy said Thursday it may issue some rapid corrections after a favourable biography of General Francisco Franco was received with outrage.More than 12 years in the making, the academy's 50-volume Spanish Biographical Dictionary provoked a storm of criticism over ...
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