Bibliobibuli

I was very happy to receive my copy of  Clutch, Brake, Sellarator - the compilation of the winning entries for last year's MPH Short St...

The longlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced just a short time ago.  Apparently this  "Booker's Dozen...

The IMPAC Dublin Prize, the world's richest literary award, has been won by Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker with his debut novel The Twin...

Troubles by J.G. Farrell, the first novel of his Empire Trilogy ,  has been declared the winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, forty years ...

Biggest congrats to friends longlisted for the Frank O'Connor short story award : Wena Poon for The Proper Care of Foxes ; David T.K. W...

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year goes to Paul Harding for Tinkers . According to The New York Times its : ... a powerful celebrati...

I am often amazed by how sloppy the books by massive names are ... Sometimes we took a deep breath before agreeing that probably this book...

The longlist for the 1970 Booker Prize has just been announced. Nope, you didn't read that wrong.  We're talking about what's co...

There's not been much wit and not much joy, there's a lot of grimness out there ... Thereare a lot of books about Asian sisters. Th...

Congrats to Samoan  poet and novelist Albert Wendt for winning the Best Novel Award the South East Asia and Pacific region for the Commonwea...

Found some sad news at the Literary Saloon website.  Apparently, the (A$110,000) Australia-Asia Literary Award, which gave local writers a ...

Malaysian youths must be exposed to more local literature that highlight noble values like respect and responsibility ... Reading high-quali...

The Costa Book Awards have been announced . Colm Tóibín beat out strong competition including Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall to take the Nov...

Have to some catching up to do with letting you know about recent winners of literary prizes. Petina Gappah has won the 2009 Guardian First...

The BBC announced an all-female line-up for its National Short Story Prize : Naomi Alderman's Other People's Gods Kate Clanchy'...

The shortlists for the various categories of the Costa Prize have been announced, and here's the full list : Costa First Novel Award ...

Maybe Neil Gaiman got it succinctly right on Twitter a few hours ago : J ust read the Guardian Bad Sex Award contenders ... I may never wri...

The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards afte...

The beauty of reading a book by yourself is how the author's imagination interacts with your own, in a way it doesn't if you're ...

The finalists for America's National Book Award were announced yesterday. These are the shortlisted fiction titles (because this is the...