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Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for his dystopian novel Prophet Song. The £50,000 ($84,882 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K."Well, there…

Calgary writer Suzette Mayr and Ontario writer Iain Reid are among the finalists for the 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards.The prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories: …

Milan Kundera's most famous work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in 1984 and turned into a film starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1987.Milan Kundera was the author of seminal works which included The Joke,…

Award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina was among those killed by a deadly Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant frequented by journalists and aid workers in eastern Ukraine, PEN America said.Amelina, 37, who had turned her…

British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock 'n' roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. He was 73.Amis was one of England's most provocative writers with an unmistakable voice. His death, from cancer of the esophagus,…

<!-- -->One of the burdens of having a famous father is trying to measure up to him in the same field.British writer Martin Amis, who has died at the age of 73, not only matched his illustrious father, Kingsley, but for a while rose…

Hank Green, a novelist and longtime host of quirky YouTube educational videos, announced on Friday that he was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer.“Good news and bad news. One, it’s cancer,” he said in a video on…

Issued on: 09/02/2023 - 11:00 Peruvian Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa was set to join the fabled Academie Francaise in Paris on Thursday, the first member never to…

Peter Robinson, the prolific British Canadian crime novelist and creator of the popular Alan Banks series of books, has died, his publisher confirmed on Friday. The Toronto-based Robinson died on Oct. 4, 2022 at the age of 72."Peter…

Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children,’ who is recovering after being stabbed in New York in August, is tipped among the bookmakers’ as the favourites in the UK to win this year’s Nobel Prize for…