Tag Archives: Books

LONDON - Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, both long-favoured contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees for the International Booker Prize for fiction...

NEW YORK - Maggie O'Farrell's "Hamnet," an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. "Hamnet," an unfortunate...

LOS ANGELES - Amanda Gorman revisits her inauguration day poetry reading that wowed observers, among them Oprah Winfrey, in the Apple TV+ series "The Oprah Conversation." The 23-year-old Gorman "stepp...

NEW YORK - Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project. Jessica Goudeau's "After the Last Border: Two Families...

NEW YORK - Canadian writers Dionne Brand and Canisia Lubrin are among this year's winners of Windham-Campbell Prizes, which provide US$165,000 for each recipient to focus on work "independent of finan...

WARSAW, Poland - Adam Zagajewski, the celebrated Polish poet whose melancholy reflections on the erosion of the world came to express an unfathomable moment of shock and loss after the 9-11 attacks in...

LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry has written the foreword for a new book aimed at the children of frontline workers who died in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing the pain he suffered as a boy after the de...

NEW YORK - The new chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, Katharine Hayhoe, has written a book about climate change. One Signal Publishers announced Wednesday that Hayhoe's "Saving Us" will be rel...

Kaleb Dahlgren never thought he would be an author, but he also never imagined he would have a story that could help and inspire others. Dahlgren, one of 13 survivors of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash...