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Donal Ryan, a civil servant from Limerick, Ireland, wrote two novels. He sent them to agents and publishers and got back 47 rejections over three years. Finally an intern at [...]

WE READ (tm)EM SO YOU DON(tm)T HAVE TO! It's the season when publishers plunder the literary brilliance among the nation's fave celebs. This week, 'Super Thursday' saw the inspiring life [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED A sly, gothic and quasi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is grounded by his parents and sent to type obituaries for a neighbor, leading to a string of [...]

11:08 p.m. UpdatedJesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for ''Salvage the Bones,'' a haunting tale of the struggles of a 15-year-old pregnant girl as [...]

Byline: TOM HAWTHORN; Special to The Globe and Mail EVOLUTION Victoria -- tomhawthorn@gmail.com Daniel Loxton, an illustrator and writer, created a children's book so outrageous, so outlandish, so controversial no [...]

An eclectic group of 13 writers was chosen on Tuesday for the longlist of this year's Man Booker Prize, considered the most prestigious award for fiction in the English-speaking world. [...]

Byline: NEW BERLIN, WI, Jun 26, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- We live in uncertain times. With the chaotic and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Middle East, the underlying threat [...]

Byline: MICHAEL KESTERTON 1. Two days before that Chilean mine collapsed, a worker underground heard an odd creaking noise at noon and told his father, a mining veteran, that he [...]

Byline: John Barber THE BUZZ Toronto -- Calgary writer Andrew Nikiforuk's angry indictment of Canadian energy policy, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, continues to win [...]

Byline: AFP London -- Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children was named as the greatest Booker Prize-winner ever yesterday, scooping a special 'best of the best' award for the second time. [...]

Byline: PATRICIA BEST Don't look for headline-making author Naomi Klein to be at the luncheon for the National Business Book Awards today at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. The [...]

Byline: AP New York -- Kate Christensen's The Great Man, a novel about a celebrated painter and the three essential women in his life, has won the PEN/Faulkner award for [...]

'The Great Man,' a novel written by Kate Christensen and published by Doubleday, won the 2008 Pen/ Faulkner Award for Fiction. Described as the largest peer-juried prize for fiction in […]

Byline: JAMES ADAMS Veteran political commentator and author Richard Gwyn won the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for excellence in literary non-fiction at a gala luncheon ceremony yesterday in Toronto. Gwyn, [...]

Byline: JAMES ADAMS 'It makes its own friends. ... My job was just not to screw it up.' Dave Bidini was on the telephone the other day from Calgary, where [...]

The three jurors for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction have been announced. They are: author Charlotte Gray, whose most recent book is the Alexander Graham Bell biography [...]

Byline: AP New York -- Japanese author Haruki Murakami's short-story collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and U.S. writers Greg Mortenson's and David Oliver Relin's non-fiction book Three Cups of Tea: [...]

Byline: HILLEL ITALIE; Associated Press, with a report from Guy Dixon NEW YORK -- Nova Scotia-raised writer and philosophy professor Troy Jollimore was stunned when he heard his name announced [...]

Byline: Bob Minzesheimer Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, a spare, poignant memoir about her grief after the death of her husband and the illness of her daughter, who [...]

Byline: SANDRA MARTIN Will Margaret Atwood's red-necked crane swoop over Martin Amis's yapping Yellow Dog? The solution to that and other such momentous speculations will be revealed on Friday when [...]

Jim Crace of Britain was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for best fiction yesterday for 'Being Dead,' a novel about the murder of a middle-aged couple on the […]