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Heavyweights vie for book prize
Share Award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga will go head-to-head for this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize. Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck is her first work since winning The Orange Prize in 2007 for Half of a Yellow Sun. Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize last year for his novel... »
An Alpine Acquisition Adventure: John Berger’s archive donated to the British Library
Share The archive of previously unseen ‘put-aside objects’ (Berger’s description of archives in his collection Here is Where we Meet) is to be transferred to the care of the British Library from its current home in a remote French Alpine village later this month (June 2009). Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British... »
Munro wins international Booker
Canadian short story author Alice Munro wins the third Man Booker International Prize and £60,000 for lifetime's work. »
Carey up for international Booker
Australian author Peter Carey, two-time winner of the Booker Prize, is among the nominees for its prestigious world honour. »
Archive lifts lid on Graham Swift
The British Library acquires the archive of the Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift. »
I enjoy the money but not the writing, confesses top author
Share One of the world’s most respected authors has revealed how he sees writing as a compulsion in a candid interview with the online arts journal The Manchester Review. Fans of Irish novelist Colm Toibin will be able to read the rare interview in the Review’s second edition when it goes live on March 2 at... »





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