Librarians debate award-winning novel
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Yes, controversy sells. Criticism of an award-winning children's book over the word "scrotum" has brought Susan Patron's "The Higher Power of Lucky" into the top 40 on Amazon.com.
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The Irish writer Anne Enright, who won the 2007 Booker Prize last month, faces criticism over a recent essay in The London Review of Books.
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A division of Simon &amp; Schuster has agreed to publish the top three winners of the Sobol Award, a new literary contest that offers a $100,000 first prize, but also has been criticized for charging entry fees and requiring that it serve as the winners' agent.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear favorite in the prediction derby.
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The US public will decide the winner of a new national book awards this year in an online vote.
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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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Joyce Carol Oates came away with nominations in fiction and nonfiction when the finalists for the annual National Book Critics Circle awards were announced.
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A Baltimore librarian's classroom project is now part of publishing history. "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village," first conceived a decade ago by Laura Amy Schlitz, is this year's winner of the John Newbery Medal for best children's book.
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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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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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One of the world's most lauded - and most divisive - literary grandees is awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
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A previously unknown story and a letter ascribed to Ernest Hemingway have caused a dispute between those who want to see them published and those who don't.
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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.
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A Baltimore librarianâs classroom project is now part of publishing history. "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village," first conceived a decade ago by Laura Amy Schlitz, is this yearâs winner of the John Newbery Medal for best chil...
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Industry magazine The Bookseller has opened voting for the oddest book title of the year, some of which suggest that nothing is stranger than non-fiction.
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E.L. Doctorow and Stephen King are up  against former presidential candidate Al Gore and a man who  made a fortune writing about his dog for The Quills, a book  prize that aims to bring some Oscar-style glitz to publishing.