Ukrainian writer, musician, volunteer and serviceman Serhii Zhadan has been awarded the 2025 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. The award is presented by Austria's Federal Ministry for ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

One Golden Summer is a follow-up to Carley Fortune's debut book Every Summer After and tells the story of Alice, a photographer seeking a quiet, restorative summer at her childhood cottage with her ...

French book publishers’ sales fell by a nominal 1.5% or an inflation-adjusted 3.1% last year to €2.902bn from €2.945bn in ...

Rameera’s debut, a romantasy riff on Sri Lankan mythology, follows an orphaned woman in a war-torn land who, in her quest for ...

UK Camilla praises literary prize for championing women authors The Queen has supported literary charities and organisations for a number of years.

The Queen has supported literary charities and organisations for a number of years.

The global literary community has also reacted in horror. Two winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, France’s Annie Ernaux and Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk, have publicly called on Algeria to release ...

Tom Newlands is the only author to be shortlisted for two prizes – the ADCI Literary Prize and the McKitterick Prize for a first novel by an author over 40 – for his work Only Here, Only Now.

France Galop's administrative council has agreed a plan to cut prize-money by €20 million per year in an effort to bring the sport back to a balanced budget by 2029, as the receipts from betting on ...

The Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Project (SEHP) is excited to announce the opening of the call for entries for the highly anticipated 3rd edition of the Samira Bawumia Literature Prize (SBLP).