The Polari Prize has named its shortlisted writers for the LGBTQ+ writing awards. Munroe Bergdorf is nominated alongside Jon ...

The Jane Austen Cleveland conference is expected to draw about 800 attendees from the world over, running the gamut from ...

The daughter of a Korean writer, Han Seung-won, Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang was born in Gwangju on 27 November 1970. Raised ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.

The legacy of an 18th century poet said to have inspired Robert Burns and known for his famous poem about “Auld Reikie” is to ...

and the National Prize for Literature in Mexico. In addition to the numerous awards and recognition, Rulfo influenced many other writers, including another iconic Latino author: Gabriel Garcia ...

Nigerian writers of all time are heroes who have tried to project the originality of Africans through their works in various ...

It warns of 'incidences of violence, mental illness and expressions of Christian faith' in other medieval texts also ...

Gerald Murnane rarely leaves his tiny Victorian town, but bookies are giving him high odds to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.

In between feeding the masses, he helps direct the tourists who come to town in search of Goroke's most famous resident ... the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday evening ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book The Message includes his time visiting South Carolina after a Columbia-area English teacher was ...