Books

Egyptian writer Soad Suleiman won the 2015 King Juan Carlos International Award sponsored by the "Word Museum" in the category…

Author Gamal al-Ghitany's novel “Zeiny Barakat” depicts repression and fear in Arab life, drawing similiar conclusions between repression during the…

Violence against writers and a misplaced sense of political correctness pose new dangers to freedom of speech in the West,…

Swedish author David Lagercrantz will write two more books featuring tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander, on top of his recent sequel…

Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker fiction prize on Tuesday for "A Brief History of…

Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet…

Franco-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani won the Mamounia literary price for her novel "In the Garden of the Ogre", which delves…

Agatha Christie fans have descended on her hometown of Torquay on the English Riviera for the 125th anniversary of the…

The fourth book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series is flying off the shelves in the US and will debut at…

Harry Potter's fictional son will be among the nervous British children making the move to big school this week, novelist…