News Date:Monday, November 12, 2012 Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “Sweet Tooth,” is a part spy novel with romance and it’s a work of fiction about fiction! The central character, Selena Frome is a Cambridge student recruited by her professor as a domestic spy agent. The novel is set in 1972 and the name “Sweet Tooth” …
The Top 10 Cities in Literature
News Date:Monday, November 12, 2012 Mark Binelli’s Detroit City Is the Place to Be is a nuanced portrait of a once-great American industrial city’s fall into decay, and its recent, tentative renaissance. Binelli, also a novelist and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, tells us the 10 cities that have received the finest treatment in literature, …
‘Monsoon Letters’ sponsors Hay Festival’s — Tales of Liberation
News Date:Monday, November 12, 2012 ML is sponsoring Tales of Liberation at the Hay Festival Dhaka. At this dialogue, writers Philip Hensher, Kamila Shamsie and Anisul Haque will talk on the War of Liberation. Moderated by Tahmima Anam and sponsored by www.monsoonletters.com Schedule: 16th November 2012 10:45 am at Bangla Academy
Man Booker Prize: 2012 shortlist announced
News Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 The six books were chosen by a panel of judges chaired by Sir Peter Stothard, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. The shortlisted books were selected from the longlist of 12 announced in July. The shortlist is: Author, Title (Publisher) Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon …
NIGERIA’S ROTIMI BABATUNDE WINS CAINE WRITING PRIZE
News Date:Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Nigerian writer Rotimi Babatunde has won this year’s prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing.The £10,000 ($15,700) prize was given for his story Bombay’s Republic about Nigerian soldiers who fought in the Burma campaign during World War II. “It is about liberation and how a character can have his world widened,” …
SRI LANKA & NEW ZEALAND TRIUMPHANT IN THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS 2012 PRIZES
News Date: Saturday, June 30, 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize Today, Commonwealth Writers has announced the winners of the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The awards were presented at Hay Festival by the multiple prize-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Commonwealth Book Prize Winner: Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri …
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COMMONWEALTH WRITERS ANNOUNCES SHORTLISTS FOR 2012 PRIZES
News Date:Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Commonwealth Writers has announced shortlists for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Writers from around the world have been shortlisted for each prize in anticipation of becoming a regional winner on 22 May and ultimately competing for overall winner which will be announced at Hay Festival …
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THIRTEENTH CAINE PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED BY NEW VICE PRESIDENT BEN OKRI
News Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 The shortlist for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced today (Tuesday 1 May) by Ben Okri OBE, the new Vice President of the Prize. The Chair of judges, author and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Bernardine Evaristo MBE, has described the shortlist …
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