The poet and author, who rose from the harshest of childhoods to become a force on the stage, screen and printed page, has died aged 86.
"The Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini’s latest novel, "And the Mountains Echoed", tells of how we are united by loss, failure and missing out.
Just the mention of her name, JK Rowling, had the audience screaming and on its feet.
The first project for Johnny Depp’s publishing imprint, Infinitum Nihil, will be a book by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
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/ 27 December 2009
Poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds, has died at the age of 85.
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/ 27 December 2009
Poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds, has died at the age of 85.
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/ 2 September 2008
How big is the market for a multimedia story — and can a phenomenon be conceived by a publisher?
Kay Ryan, an award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described ”modern hermit”, has been named the next United States poet laureate.
An award-winning children’s book based on the true story of two male penguins that raised a baby penguin has topped the list of works attracting complaints from parents, library patrons and others, the American Library Association said on Tuesday. And Tango Makes Three is the first of 546 works on the list.
JK Rowling has a request for those with inside information on her seventh and final Harry Potter book: please keep it to yourself. ”We’re a little under three months away, now, and the first distant rumblings of the weirdness that usually precedes a Harry Potter publication can be heard on the horizon,” Rowling wrote on her website.