Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay is now being distributed in Swedish to high-school pupils.
Correspondence between Tolkien and the late and acclaimed illustrator gives further details about the sometimes thorny relationship between the two.
The United States president will present the novelist with the highest award for artists given by the US government.
A 8 000-word story by F Scott Fitzgerald has been discovered in the archives of Princeton University.
Harper Lee’s lawyer, Tonja Carter, says there may be a third novel by Lee.
As its Tuesday launch creates frenzy in the literary world, the novel’s first chapter reveals a voice recognisable to that of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than 50 years, the novel was written before ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ and features Scout as an adult.
The Hoshi prize hopes stories created by artificial intelligences (AIs) will soon go up against those written by humans in the competition.
Samar Yazbek was named by British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy as international "writer of courage" with whom she will share the Pen/Pinter prize.
Stephen King’s digital publication of "Riding the Bullet" in 2000 made him one of the pioneers of the e-book movement.
After 72 years of tackling supervillains as a straight man, DC Comics’ Green Lantern, one of the oldest characters, is to be reintroduced as gay.
Brett Easton Ellis is mulling a sequel to <i>American Psycho</i> in which Patrick Bateman murders David Beckham and analyses Whitney Houston’s oeuvre.
The Swedish Academy has responded to accusations of insularity in recent years by awarding the 2011 Nobel prize for literature to one of their own.
Author unveils collaborative website that will have extensive background material, sell e-books and create an opportunity for fans to submit content.
Author and publisher Carmen Callil has withdrawn from the judging panel of the Man Booker International prize over its decision to honour Philip Roth.
International publishers are gearing up for releases from major authors in 2011. Alison Flood lists nine of them.
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/ 14 September 2010
There are no more ‘jolly japes’ and ‘lashings of pop’ as dated language is revamped for a new generation of this popular author’s young readers.
Worship of Sachin Tendulkar will cross a new boundary with a special edition of his autobiography made in part with the cricketer’s blood.
Winning the Booker prize almost 40 years ago for <em>The Siege of Krishnapur</em>, JG Farrell used his acceptance speech to denounce capitalism.
It’s not quite at Harry Potter levels, but Laura Bush’s memoir, <em>Spoken from the Heart</em>, has sold around 150 000 copies in its first week.
A new project is hoping to take the "one book, one city" initiative a step further and get the whole world reading the same novel.
Thousands of writers have opted out of Google’s controversial plan to digitise million of books. Alison Flood reports
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/ 27 November 2009
The story of the seduction of a lesbian by an ageing actor has won novelist Philip Roth a place on the shortlist for the bad sex in fiction awards.
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/ 30 October 2009
Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s seminal novel, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, is the book that has most shaped world literature.
The Renault Koleos is a car that knows its job – and does it well.
Three hundred years ago Samuel Johnson declared that "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money". Irish novelist Colm Toibin afrees.
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/ 29 October 2008
A sequel to the novel co-authored by Bram Stoker’s great-grand-nephew will see vampire hunters under attack from the undead once again.