Books and literature

MADRID -- Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature, the Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes said Wednesday.The Princess of Asturias Award jury praised the…

LONDON -- Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Time Shelter,” a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.The book beat five other finalists to…

US-Apple-Books-Top-10 Week ending 5/14/2023Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List):1. Only the Dead by Jack Carr - 9781982181727 - (AtriaEmily Bestler Books)2. Happy Place by Emily Henry - 9780593441206 - (Penguin Publishing Group)3. It Ends…

“The Late Americans,” by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books)Brandon Taylor burst onto the literary scene three years ago, publishing two widely acclaimed books in quick succession. Critics marveled at the way he seemed to have pivoted so…

British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has diedFILE - British novelist Martin Amis poses in the living room of his new home in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Aug. 17, 2012.…

Best-selling novelist James Patterson is teaming up with investigative journalist Vicky Ward on a book about the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho studentsFILE - Author James Patterson poses for a portrait in New York on Aug. 30,…

Activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein has a book coming out in September that will combine personal reflections with political reporting and cultural commentaryThis image released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows “Doppelganger: A…

US-Apple-Books-Top-10 Week ending 5/14/2023Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List):1. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Penguin Publishing Group)2. The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown and Company)3.T he Recovery…

The author and journalist Masha Gessen has resigned as vice president of the board of PEN America, citing their unhappiness with the literary and free expression organization’s cancellation of an event that would have included Russian…

Prize-winning author Clint Smith has a three-book deal with Random House, starting with an exploration of World War II’s impact upon everyone from a survivor of a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. to a Jewish activist in Nazi GermanyNEW…