A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez has been recovered by a Dutch art detective after an international “race against time” that drew the alleged interest of Iran’s secret service.
Read moreChristopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, who edited and helped publish many of his father’s works, has died at 95, the Tolkien Society said.
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After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that’s been speculated about for decades.
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E-books are not physical objects and therefore cannot be resold in Europe without the consent of the author, the European Court of Justice held Thursday.
Read moreNovelist Milan Kundera has gained Czech citizenship four decades after communist Czechoslovakia stripped him of citizenship following his emigration to France, the Czech foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Read moreOne of the world’s best-selling detective novelists, Jack Reacher creator Lee Child, said he is becoming Irish so he can continue to travel in the European Union after Brexit.
Read moreThe widow of the highly regarded but hugely controversial French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine has died aged 107, over half a century after her husband, whose work she always defended, a family friend told AFP on Friday.
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A forthcoming book by an anonymous author identified as “a senior official in the Trump administration” describes President Donald Trump as volatile, incompetent and unfit to be commander in chief, according to excerpts published Thursday by The Washington Post.
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Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke.
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Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, has died. He was 86.
Read moreA group of Dubliners are campaigning to bring home the remains of celebrated author James Joyce, whose grave in Zurich is far from the Irish capital chronicled in his modernist masterpieces.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will not revisit its decision in a long-running copyright feud between family and heirs of renowned author John Steinbeck.
Read moreHarold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization, died Monday at 89.
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A Polish novelist and an Austrian writer were awarded Noble Prizes for literature Thursday, a rare double award that came after no prize was given last year due to sex abuse allegations in the organization that decides the winners.
Read moreLetters showing how Marcel Proust waged a charm offensive to get glowing reviews and win France’s top literary prize failed to sell at a Paris auction Monday.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Monday threw out a jury award of $8 million in punitive damages to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter over a copyright dispute involving the author’s famous works.
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A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure up evil spirits.
Read moreOn trial over federal defamation claims, bestselling romance novelist Nicholas Sparks denied he bullied the headmaster of a private Christian school Sparks founded in North Carolina to make the man quit.
Read moreThe Israel National Library on Wednesday unveiled a missing batch of Czech Jewish writer Franz Kafka’s papers, ending more than a decade of legal wrangling over ownership in Israel and Europe.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit appeared poised Tuesday to toss nearly $8 million in punitive damages awarded to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter in a decades-long copyright spat between the Nobel Prize laureate’s heirs.
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