The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature — the country’s most prestigious literary competition — late last week conferred four creative writers ...

Miguel Antonio Alfredo V. Luarca, Joshua Lim So, Mikael de Lara Co, and Eros Sanchez Atalia have won five first prizes each ...

Anti-apartheid activist and renowned South African writer Breyten Breytenbach has passed away at 85 in Paris. Known for his outspoken opposition to apartheid, he left a lasting impact on literature ...

The book was set in its time, in 1815 ... The epic poem Beowulf is one of the earliest examples of English literature. It's also notoriously hard to read in the original old English and has been the ...

For those of you who slept through the week dedicated to poetry in high school, a sonnet is a spare fourteen lines—not long ...

This follows the library's 2022 inclusion of its first batch of Chinese online literature. These novels ... The British Library houses over 170 million items, including books, manuscripts, newspapers, ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The English translation of Yang Shuang-zi’s (楊?子) Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄) made history after it became the latest winner of ...

How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the ...

The English translation of Yang Shuang-zi's (楊双子) "Taiwan Travelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄) made history after it became the latest winner ...