Tag: Literary events
Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress
NEW YORK — The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and...
Nobelist Wole Soyinka to honor Henry Louis Gates at PEN gala
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka will be attending this fall's PEN America literary gala, flying in from his native Nigeria to help...
Couric book tour this fall will be in-person, in theaters
NEW YORK — For her tour this fall to promote her memoir “Going There,” Katie Couric is anticipating not only the interest of her...
‘The Night Watchman,’ Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers
NEW YORK — One of the country’s most esteemed novelists, Louise Erdrich, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Night Watchman.”
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French non-fiction author Carrere wins top Spanish award
MADRID — French author Emmanuel Carrere, popular for his non-fiction books in a high literary vein, has been granted this year’s Spanish Princess of...
Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge
NEW YORK — A. Stella Oloye, a Washington, D.C-based writer working on an Afrofuturism novel, was at a low point this spring when she...
Rowling, Pilkey among authors mourning Scholastic CEO
NEW YORK — J.K. Rowling is praising the longtime head of the U.S. publisher of her "Harry Potter” books as an ally and early...
Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis
MEXICO CITY — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive”...
Richard Robinson, longtime Scholastic CEO, dead at 84
NEW YORK — Richard Robinson, who as the longtime head of Scholastic Inc. presided over such bestsellers as J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter” novels and...
David Diop wins International Booker Prize with WWI story
LONDON — A harrowing but poetic tale of comradeship, colonialism and the horrors of war won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday.
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