South America Epic Wins the National Book Award
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"The News From Paraguay," Lily Tuck's historical epic set in 19th-century South America, won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday.
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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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Author Harper Lee is to be awarded with America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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New York-based writer Lily Tuck last night won the 2004 National Book Award for her historical novel of Latin America, &#39;&#39;The News from Paraguay,&quot; in a New York ceremony.
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LONDON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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Latin American literary giant  Gabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on book pirates  by finely tuning the ending of his latest novel.
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A fictionalized take on the youth and evolution of the famous South American revolutionary.
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We sift through the best that South America's largest country has to offer.
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The U.N. address by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has had an unexpected impact &#151; on the best seller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes &amp; Noble.com.
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A book about the evolution of mutants and the science of abnormality has won the Guardian First Book Award 2004.
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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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Latin American literary giant Gabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on copyright pirates by changing the ending of his latest book, the Nobel laureate's first novel in 10 years.
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Author Harper Lee is to be given America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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Imperial Life In The Emerald City, on life on the US base in Iraq, wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
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Latin American literary giant Gabriel Garcia Marquez has unintentionally won the last laugh on copyright pirates by changing the ending of his latest book, the Nobel laureate's first novel in 10 years.