Shortlist for Booker Prize announced
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A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Welsh novelist Sarah Waters is one of six writers shortlisted for this year's Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize.
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British artists make up a quarter of  the nominations for this year's US Shortlist Music Prize.
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The Sept. 11 Commission&#39;s report and five women novelists have been selected as National Book Award finalists, the National Book Foundation said Wednesday.
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Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker and Colm Toibin are among 22 authors to make the Booker prize long list.
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Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are among the authors who are shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Author secures place on shortlist with On Chesil Beach.
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Kate Winslet is nominated for two best actress Baftas as the shortlist for the UK's top film awards is announced.
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International Booker judges offer support to author Salman Rushdie as they honour this year's winner.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst poses with his book, The Line of Beauty, winner of The 2004 Booker Prizer Literary Prize. Photo: AFP. British author Alan Hollinghurst today won the Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s
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Novelists William Boyd, Neil Griffiths, Mark Haddon and David Mitchell are nominated for the Costa Book Awards.
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Arts & entertainment: Ten 'ambitious, resonant' titles fight the first round of the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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British Author David Mitchell was installed as runaway favorite on Thursday to capture the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's top literary awards, for his ambitious, multi-layered novel "Cloud Atlas."
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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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Artists ranging from the Roots to Wolfmother to Regina Spektor are among those being considered for the annual Shortlist Music Prize, which honors critically acclaimed discs that have not reached mainstream status.
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Novelists Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers were among the finalists Thursday night for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.