FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 30, 2008 - IBBY Canada (International Board on Books for Young People, Canadian National Section) is pleased to announce that Stéphane Jorisch is the winner of the 2007 IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award for...
March 28, 2008 - Bolen Books and the Victoria Book Prize Society have established the first annual Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize. The $5000 prize will be administered by the Victoria Book Prize Society in tandem with the City of...
The New York Times examinesthe role that one's reading taste plays in dating. Mostly the article regales us with stories of of those who dumped prospective partners whose reading tastewasn't highbrow enough.At least since Dante's Paolo and Francesca fell in
Jane Fonda's last book sold so well that she's workingon a sequel. Jane Fonda's 2005 memoir My Life So Far became a best seller (it peaked at No. 11 on the list), thanks to its largely unflinching look at her
Steven Spielberg has cast newcomer Thomas Sangster as Tintin in the new live-action film based on the comic book character. For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually. For those
An important 75-page book titled, What the Elders Used to Say, Namibian Perspectives on the Last Decade of German Colonial Rule, was launched as part of the country's oral history this week at the Goethe Center.
In A literary feast in Al-Ahram Weekly Rania Khallaf reports on a "plethora of literary activities" around the opening of the new premises of the Arab Writers' Union.
In The Nation Alice Kaplan looks at the Gray Area of French fiction -- the new Nemirovsky-collection, as well as Philippe Grimbert's Memory and a few other titles.
