FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 26, 2008) - The West Coast Book Prize Society congratulates all the authors, illustrators and publishers shortlisted for the 24th Annual BC Book Prizes. The winners and finalists of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (WINNIPEG, April 27, 2008) — The Winnipeg Art Gallery was the scene of a momentous occasion last evening. For the twentieth consecutive year the Manitoba Book Awards honoured its best and brightest in the writing and publishing...
President Bush's 2009 budget will eliminatefunding for RIF, the Reading is Fundamental program which provides books and encourages reading for impoverished children. President Bush's proposed 2009 budget eliminates all the funding for Reading Is Fundamental's book distribution program that has,
And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike perspective who has a penchant for endangered animals, attempts to free a genetically modified dog named Buck who might or might not be recreating
Veronica Buckley relied on Le Journal secret de Louis XIV for her biography of his mistress, believing it to be Louis XIV's own work -- somehow failing to notice that Francois Bluche wrote the book (and was more than willing
The silliest ministry going, Iran's (oxy)moronic Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, makes the news again with their same old story, as this time, as AFP report, Iranian minister advises aspiring writers self-censorship is best path to publication. We look
Iran's culture minister has urged writers to self-censor their books if they want to be published in the Islamic republic, which applies strict vetting on literature and other arts.
Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back to the Bronze Age in the Dolomites. How could such a story come down to us? No one in those parts knew writing, three
