Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper
When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize for literature, France's intellectual beau monde mourned what seemed an almost freakish tragedy. In Camus's pocket was an unused return train ticket from his home in Provence to Paris. The 46-year-old writer had intended to travel back after the Chri
Nobel prize for literature goes to Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian novelist and failed presidential candidate takes literature's highest honour Reuters The Peruvian writer Maria Vargas Llosa today won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, crowning a career in which he helped spark the global boom in South American literature, launched a failed presidential bid and maintained a 30-year feud with the man he now joins as a Nobel laureate, Gabriel García Márq
Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Literature Prize
Mario Vargas Llosa : "At first I thought, but what if this is a joke?" Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Academy hailed "his cartography of structures of power" and "trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." The 74-year-old has written more than
Kafka’s Last Trial (Published 2010)
An undated photograph of Franz Kafka.Credit...Courtesy the National Library of Israel During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in his desk in Prague, addressed to his friend Max Brod. “Dearest Max,” it began. “My last request: Everything I leave behind me . . . in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letter
Nobel laureate José Saramago dies, aged 87
The Portuguese novelist José Saramago, who explored Portugal's troubled political identity in a series of novels published over the last four decades and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998, died today at the age of 87. An outspoken atheist and communist, he challenged the orthodoxies of post-dictatorship Portuguese life with novels such as Baltasar and Blimunda, The Year of the Death of Ri
Nobel-winning author Jose Saramago dies at 87
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, his publisher has announced. Saramago, a communist and atheist, only began to become recognised for his work in his fifties. One of his best-known novels is Blindness, written in 1995, which tells the story of a country whose entire population lose their sight.
JG Ballard archive acquired for British Library
An archive of items from the collection of JG Ballard, photographed here in 1984, including manuscripts, notebooks, letters, photographs and school reports, are to be saved by the British Library in line with his wishes. Photograph: Fay Godwin/British Library Board/PA An archive of items from the collection of JG Ballard, photographed here in 1984, including manuscripts, notebooks, letters, photog
Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner
It was the winter of 2001, and the popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver was facing a deluge of hate mail. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks she had written a series of opinion pieces for US newspapers, urging contemplation and debate, and her ideas (the suggestion, for instance, that "in critical times, our leaders need most to be influenced by the moderating force of dissent") were proving seriously
『鏡の国のアリス』に幻のキャラクター、挿絵画家の書簡で明らかに
英ロンドン（London）で売りに出された、英画家ジョン・テニエル（Sir John Tenniel）が英作家ルイス・キャロル（Lewis Carroll）に宛てて書いた書簡（2010年5月27日提供）。(c)AFP/BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS 【5月30日 AFP】英作家ルイス・キャロル（Lewis Carroll）の『不思議の国のアリス（Alice in Wonderland）』（1865年）の続編から1章が削除されていたことが、27日にロンドン（London）で競売にかけられた書簡で明らかになった。 想像力に富んだキャラクターが登場する『不思議の～』シリーズだが、1871年に出版された続編の『鏡の国のアリス（Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There）』の挿絵を描いた画家がもう1つのキャラクター、「かつらを被っ
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Jane Austen's style might not be hers, academic claims
BBC News - Barbara Kingsolver wins Orange Prize for Fiction
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Haycast 02: Ian McEwan, Jon Snow and Howard Davies
Haycast 01: Kazuo Ishiguro, Tobias Hill and Peter Hitchens
The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson (Published 2010)
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Author JG Farrell wins 1970 'lost' Booker Prize
Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published
Human Orbits (Published 2010)
Authors choose their favourite books of decade