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Jamaican author Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for best novel for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob Marley.

• 14 октября 2015, 15:29

The hugely successful "Twilight" vampire romance series is marking its 10th anniversary with a twist -- a gender swap.

• 07 октября 2015, 13:47

Agatha Christie fans have descended on her hometown of Torquay on the English Riviera for the 125th anniversary of the murder master's birth.

• 16 сентября 2015, 15:26

Popular Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's new book has gone on sale, with a major domestic bookstore chain buying 90 percent of the initial print run in a direct challenge to online rivals.

• 11 сентября 2015, 16:58

The eagerly-awaited sequel to Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium crime trilogy hit store shelves in 25 countries.

• 27 августа 2015, 13:40

As US President Barack Obama lounged with his family on a Massachusetts beach, the White House released a list of six books that he took on vacation.

• 14 августа 2015, 10:53

Bookstores opened at midnight when copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited, but controversial second novel flew off the shelves more than half a century after the groundbreaking success of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

• 14 июля 2015, 13:53

Spanish poet Justo Jorge Padron’s poignant The Circles of Hell has been translated into the Kazakh language.

• 13 мая 2015, 01:02

Writer Yuriy Serebryanskiy has become the winner of the Russian Award for the second time.

• 28 апреля 2015, 22:32

Fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin has released a chapter from his upcoming next book in the series on which hit television show "Game of Thrones" is based.

• 04 апреля 2015, 10:35

Submerged in his new novel, Turkey's Nobel prize laureate Orhan Pamuk gazes out over the city of Istanbul, the main protagonist of his books.

• 14 февраля 2015, 14:44

Sherlock Holmes never existed but his fictional address of 221B Baker Street still receives a steady flow of letters addressed to the famously intuitive detective.

• 17 октября 2014, 16:23

Novelist Richard Flanagan said he was ashamed to be Australian after winning the Man Booker Prize for his book "The Narrow Road to the Deep North".

• 15 октября 2014, 16:47

Patrick Modiano, a historical novelist haunted by France's painful experience of Nazi occupation and his own childhood wounds, won the Nobel Literature Prize.

• 09 октября 2014, 21:04

The world premier of the Abai and Shakarim suites will open at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 12, 2014.

• 26 августа 2014, 19:17

Bird houses for bookcrossing have been installed in parks of Almaty, a large southern city of Kazakhstan.

• 13 августа 2014, 10:57

Librarians of the Abai Library in Semey have decided to foster love for reading through free eBooks.

• 07 июля 2014, 11:12

It's not that Margaret Mitchell didn't give a damn whether Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler would ever get back together again in "Gone with the Wind."

• 24 июня 2014, 12:39

An English translation of historically significant John Castle’s diary about his travels to the Kazakh Steppe is in preparation in the UK.

• 27 мая 2014, 11:44

Almaty based-writer Ilya Odegov won the Russian Award in Flash Fiction category with his short story “Timur and his summer”.

• 23 апреля 2014, 18:12