Egypt’s trailblazing writer Nawal El Saadawi died on Sunday at the age of 89, after a lifetime spent fighting for women’s rights and equality. She died in a Cairo hospital after a […]

American writer Harlan Coben has some free advice for anyone who cares to ask: “If it produces pages: good. If it doesn’t produce pages: bad.” With 32 published books and an estimated […]

The typical book club is accustomed to picking a single book to read for an allotted time period, but globally revered talk show host/television producer/actress/author/philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey, has taken one step further. […]

The Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, has announced the longlist for its annual award yesterday, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for […]

Author and editor Nadja Spiegelman is heading a new literary magazine that will highlight writing from around the world. And the magazine, titled ‘Astra Quarterly’, will likely release its first issue later […]

The recipient of much acclaim for works like ‘State of Grace’ in 1973 (which was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction) and ‘The Quick and the Dead’ in 2002 (a […]

Hillary Clinton is a former presidential hopeful, secretary of state and first lady. And she has now partnered up with renowned author Louise Penny for the publication of her first novel – […]

Four friends from Delaware, U.S. have founded an online poetry journal that showcases the work of women over fifty years of age. The journal, which was christened ‘Quartet’, is named after the […]

The Horror Writers Association—dedicated to promoting horror and dark fantasy writers—announced the finalists for the annual Bram Stoker Award yesterday, which honors the best work in horror and dark fiction published in […]

Yesterday, Aspen Words—a programme in the Aspen Institute—announced the finalists for the 2021 Aspen Literary Awards, which recognizes and honours a work of fiction that addresses a pressing contemporary issue. The Award […]

Utilizing the medium of many book fairs amid a pandemic-riddled year, the Brussels Book Fair and the European Commission will be hosting the second edition of the European Book Forum digitally on […]

The Padma (or Padma Shri) Awards were instituted in 1954 to be awarded to citizens of India in recognition of their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the arts, education, […]

The Taipei International Book Exhibition 2021 which begun on January 26th, is set to go on until the 31st of May this year. It is organized by the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture […]

Booker Prize winner and Nobel Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk has written a book for children. Titled, ‘The Lost Soul’, the book is about a man who worked diligently and efficiently but had […]

Stephen King is known by many titles: ‘The Master of Horror’, ‘Ringleader of Nightmares’ and many more. But recent news affirms that he is quite the youth literary advocate too! This is […]

Hailing from Alaska, illustrator Michaela Goade has become the first Native American to win one of the two top prizes in children’s literature – the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal. This was awarded […]

Girish Karnad’s memoir, which was to be translated from Kannada into English by the actor-playwright himself but could only finish a part of it before his death in 2019, will now be […]

An author grieving for both of her parents has written a book to help children deal with tragedies. Jess Childs’ father took his own life in 2006 and her mother from cancer, […]

The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award. Trinidadian-born British writer Monique […]

Yesterday, PR Newswire broke the news that Literati, an “innovative literary brand,” has just raised 40 million dollars in Series B funding. And among its investors is National Basketball Association (NBA) giant […]