Camus children torn over possible transfer of author to Pantheon in Paris

Camus’ children torn over Pantheon transfer bid

Army allows media at Palin event in North Carolina despite concerns about anti-Obama politics

Army relents, will allow media at Palin book event

Chinese writer Su Tong’s ‘Boat to Redemption’ wins Man Asian Literary Prize

Su’s ‘Redemption’ wins Man Asian Literary Prize

AP writer Julie Hirschfeld Davis wins Dirksen Award for economic bailout coverage

AP’s Davis wins Dirksen Award for bailout coverage

Linden MacIntyre wins prestigious Canadian literature award for novel about abuse by

Linden MacIntyre wins Canadian literature award

Miami Book Fair International: thousands of readers to throng literary fest even in recession

Less poetry, music but big Miami book fair goes on

Novelist Marie NDiaye wins France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt

Novelist NDiaye wins France’s top literary prize

Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa to headline international book fair in Guadalajara, Mexico

Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa headline book fair

E-books gaining more traction in the print world at Germany’s Frankfurt Book Fair

FRANKFURT — While paper books still outnumber texts that can be read online or on dedicated readers like the Kindle or eBook, use of the electronic versions is growing.

Spanish writer Angeles Caso wins Premio Planeta award for novel on plight of immigrant women

MADRID — Spanish writer and journalist Angeles Caso has won the country’s most lucrative literary award for a novel about the ordeals of women from poor countries who emigrate in search of a better life.

Google to launch new Google Editions platform to sell books accessible anywhere

FRANKFURT — An executive with Google says the company will launch a new platform next year that lets readers buy books that can be accessed from anywhere, be it a personal computer, cell phone or other platform.

Nan Robertson, Pulitzer winner who wrote about fight for equal rights at NY Times, dies at 83

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Nan Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who wrote a book about female employees’ fight for equal treatment at the newspaper, has died. She was 83.

German book fair head defends choice of China, says country’s selection should help freedom

FRANKFURT — The director of the world’s largest book fair said Wednesday that the selection of China as the event’s special guest should help the country move closer to the West and away from censorship and restrictions on dissent.

Tycoon stories and Darwin books get National Book Award nominations

NEW YORK — Tycoons, evolution and the environment were among the subjects of this year’s National Book Award nominees.

Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel depicts an outsider at Henry VIII’s court in ‘Wolf Hall’

LONDON — Last week, Hilary Mantel was a critically praised but commercially lukewarm novelist, whose Tudor corridors-of-power saga “Wolf Hall” was receiving rave reviews for its vivid depiction of 16th-century England.

Frankfurt book fair highlights China, organizers hope for cultural dialogue

BERLIN — Organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair worked for 15 years to secure China as the guest of honor at their five-day showcase of global trends and best sellers that opens to industry delegates Wednesday.

Nobel Prizes 2009: A record year for women

This year a record five women were honored by the Nobel committees. In total, only 40 women have won the prestigious prizes, including Marie Curie who took the 1903 physics prize and the 1911 chemistry prize.

A look at the winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes

With Monday’s prize in economics, all the 2009 Nobel Prizes have been announced. The winners will receive them on Dec. 10 in twin ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo.

US pre-eminence under threat? Obama’s peace prize, science awards, suggest otherwise

STOCKHOLM — After cleaning up in the Nobel science prizes, the United States scored another coup: the peace prize for a president less than nine months in office.

Nobel literature prize goes to little-known European amid concern other regions ignored

The judges, apparently, could not help themselves.

Winner of Nobel literature prize wrote about life under Romanian dictator

BERLIN — Herta Mueller never intended to become a writer, it was simply a means of coping with the oppression of everyday life under Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

List of German winners of the Nobel literature prize

Herta Mueller is the 10th German to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Here is a list of German writers who have received the award.

Works of Nobel literature laureate Herta Mueller

A partial list of books by Herta Mueller, winner Thursday of the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature:

Excerpts from the citation for the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature

Excerpts from the Swedish Academy’s citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature to Herta Mueller of Germany.

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM — Herta Mueller, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:

Israel’s Oz, American Oates favored to follow ‘Chateaubriand’ in Nobel literature buzz

STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel’s Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, especially after the most prominent judge broke from his predecessor and said U.S. writers are worthy of the coveted award.

Harvard acquires archive of Pulitzer Prize winning author, and alumnus, John Updike

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike, a member of the university’s class of 1954.

Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ wins fiction’s Man Booker Prize

LONDON — A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday.

AP Interview: Nobel literature prize judge says award ‘too Eurocentric’ in recent years

STOCKHOLM — American authors, you may be back in the Nobel running.

Jose Antonio Burciaga collection, Houston Baker book among American Book Award winners

NEW YORK — A critical work on black intellectuals and an anthology of the late Chicano poet Jose Antonio Burciaga are among this year’s winners of American Book Awards.

Nobel literature judge says award committee has been ‘too Eurocentric’

STOCKHOLM — The new frontman of the Nobel literature prize jury believes the secretive panel has been too “Eurocentric” in picking winners and says there are plenty of American writers who would qualify for the award.

Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ the front-runner as 6 finalists vie for fiction’s Booker Prize

LONDON — A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII was the bookies’ favorite to take the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday.

Canadian Stem cell pioneers among possible candidates for Monday’s Nobel Prize in medicine

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.

Facts about next week’s Nobel Prize announcements

The winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes will be announced in the next two weeks, starting with the medicine prize on Monday. Here are some brief explanations of how the award winners are picked and announced.