Poets vie for Â£10,000 Eliot prize
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Michael Longley and broadcaster Tom Paulin are on the shortlist for the Â£10,000 TS Eliot Poetry Prize.
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Authors are in an annual competition for the eyes of the busy executive.
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A new Russian national book prize spurs debate about a literary academy and the state of modern Russian literature.
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A collection of watercolours by JMW Turner fetch Â£10.6m at an auction in London.
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(London) For the first time a gay novel has won the prestigious Booker Prize. Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the prize Tuesday night in London for the critically acclaimed &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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Tipping the Velvet author Sarah Waters is nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her latest book.
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The north of England's bid to upstage the Turner prize took another step forward last night with the award of Â£15,000 tax-free and a bundle of commissions to two artists from the region
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BRITISH author Alan Hollinghurst has snared the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel The Line of Beauty,&#39; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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Recordings of Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves and others are added to an online poetry initiative.
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A "luminous" debut novel about a young girl sent to live in rural Wales is up against a biography of tragic Mary Queen of Scots in the competition for one of Britain's top literary awards.
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Can artists do a better job than politicians at portraying politics as appealing? This is a question posed by the four contenders for this year&#39;s Turner art prize at Tate Britain.
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At a Seamus Heaney reading, the listeners hear poetry that's not confined to the rhyme and meter of a specific poem.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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The four artists competing in the 2006 Turner Prize will find out who wins the Â£20,000 award tonight.
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Britain's biggest literary festival - a fortnight's worth of readings, signings, debates and discussions - brings huge numbers of visitors to the small, but perfectly formed for the bookish, town of Hay-on-Wye each year.  This year was the festival's 20th, offering some 400 opportunities to put a face and a voice to names on spines. Guardian photographer Martin Godwin has been busy around the site, and for those who missed the festival here are some of his portraits of the visiting luminaries meeting their public over the past fortnight.  For a sample of these authors' voices, visit our audio archive of readings and interviews from the daily Haycasts.
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The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.