Tag: Literary events
Writers from 4 continents up for International Booker Prize
LONDON — Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both long-favored contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees...
O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ wins book critics award for fiction
NEW YORK — Maggie O'Farrell's “Hamnet,” an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book...
Books on slavery and immigration among Lukas project winners
NEW YORK — Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project....
George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson win PEN achievement awards
NEW YORK — Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe and Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson are among this year's winners of PEN America awards for career...
Rona Jaffe award for emerging writers is discontinued
NEW YORK — A literary prize that had provided vital support to Tracy K. Smith, Eula Biss and more than 100 other women early...
Acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski dies at age 75
WARSAW, Poland — Adam Zagajewski, one of Poland’s greatest poets who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and...
Garth Greenwell, Douglas Stuart among Lambda award nominees
NEW YORK — Fiction by Garth Greenwell and Douglas Stuart and nonfiction by author-comedian Samantha Irby are among this year's nominees for the Lambda...
Better than most? One putt on the 17th that actually was
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The moment stands out as among the most famous at The Players Championship. Twenty years ago this week, Tiger...
Dutch poet declines assignment to translate Gorman’s works
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A writer who was chosen to translate American poet Amanda Gorman's work into Dutch has handed back the assignment following...
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s art book hits bookstores
WARSAW, Poland — The latest book by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk to be translated into English is a departure for the celebrated Polish author....
