http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/2554-books-literature.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/2554-books-literature.html http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2083378-filipino-director-takes-bataan-march.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A film that weaves together stories of the anguish and desperation of American and Filipino soldiers during the notorious Bataan Death March could have been shot on location in a large-scale production. Filipino director Borinaga Alix Jr. instead chose to film "Death March" in black-and-white and almost entirely inside a studio ... Tue, 14 May 2013 04:46:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2083378-filipino-director-takes-bataan-march.html 2013-05-14T04:46:50Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2075986-1969-hendrix-telegram-paul-to-play.html LONDON (AP) — Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970. But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another ba... Fri, 10 May 2013 11:58:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2075986-1969-hendrix-telegram-paul-to-play.html 2013-05-10T11:58:16Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2072502-british-director-bryan-forbes-dies-age-86.html LONDON (AP) — British film director Bryan Forbes, whose work includes the original 1970s horror classic "The Stepford Wives," has died at age 86 after a long illness, a family spokesman said Wednesday. Matthew D'Ancona said Forbes died surrounded by his family at his home in Surrey. Forbes was born John Theobald Clarke in 1926 in London. He began his film... Wed, 08 May 2013 21:56:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2072502-british-director-bryan-forbes-dies-age-86.html 2013-05-08T21:56:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2066442-prizes-awarded-translated-fiction-poetry.html NEW YORK (AP) — An experimental Hungarian novel and a collection of Romanian poetry have won prizes for best English language translations. Laszlo Krasznahorkai's "Satantango," translated into English by Georges Szirtes (ZUR'-tes), won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction. The poetry winner was Nichita Stanescu's "Wheel With a Single Spoke," transla... Mon, 06 May 2013 17:27:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2066442-prizes-awarded-translated-fiction-poetry.html 2013-05-06T17:27:48Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2035564-rushdie-relives-magic-midnights-children.html NEW YORK (AP) — Thanks to the printed word and the moving image, Salman Rushdie has recaptured the worst part of his life and relived one of the best. Last fall, the 65-year-old author published the best-selling memoir "Joseph Anton" about his years in hiding that followed the 1988 publication of "The Satanic Verses" and the call for his death by Iran's A... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:34:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2035564-rushdie-relives-magic-midnights-children.html 2013-04-22T02:34:50Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2027908-book-interviews-with-future-pope-april-30.html NEW YORK (AP) — A book of interviews with the future Pope Francis will be coming out in English at the end of the month. "Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio" is scheduled for release April 30, G.P. Putnam's Sons announced Thursday. The book, an international best seller published in Spanish in 2010, includes the Argentine's thoughts on every... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2027908-book-interviews-with-future-pope-april-30.html 2013-04-18T12:00:35Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2021144-zadie-smith-granta-best-young-novelists-list.html LONDON (AP) — Newcomer Taiye Selasi and established best-seller Zadie Smith have been named to Granta magazine's list of best young British novelists — a once-a-decade roster with a reputation for predicting literary stars. The lineup of 20 writers under 40 announced Monday also includes Sarah Hall, Adam Foulds, Kamila Shamsie, Adam Thirlwell and Helen Oy... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:22:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2021144-zadie-smith-granta-best-young-novelists-list.html 2013-04-15T19:22:01Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2017416-pope-taps-cardinals-to-advise-governing-reform.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect the universal nature of the church in key governing decisions. The advisory panel includes only one current Vatican offi... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:35:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2017416-pope-taps-cardinals-to-advise-governing-reform.html 2013-04-13T17:35:16Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2017226-pope-faces-tough-decisions-vatican-reforms-loom.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has spent much of his first month as pope charming ordinary Catholics with his ordinary yet extraordinary papal ways and making clear he is very much the boss when it comes to decisions as small as the shoes he wears to where he rests his head at night. In the coming months, he'll face decisions of far greater import as he... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:15:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2017226-pope-faces-tough-decisions-vatican-reforms-loom.html 2013-04-13T06:15:32Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2015260-cecil-hits-contents-biography.html NEWMARKET, England (AP) — Esteemed British racecourse trainer Henry Cecil has hit out at a soon-to-be-published biography that contains "unhappy and difficult phases" of his life, saying the concept of the book was changed without his authorization. The 70-year-old Cecil, who trained retired flat-racing great Frankel and is a 10-time champion trainer, gav... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:24:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2015260-cecil-hits-contents-biography.html 2013-04-12T09:24:48Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2012034-nominees-announced-english-translation-prize.html NEW YORK (AP) — A novel by Romanian-born German Nobel laureate Herta Muller is among the finalists for prizes given for best English language translations of fiction and poetry. Muller's "The Hunger Angel" was translated from German by Philip Boehm and has been nominated for a Best Translated Book Award. Ten fiction works and six poetry books were announc... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:14:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2012034-nominees-announced-english-translation-prize.html 2013-04-11T00:14:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2006330-thatcher-troubled-relations-with-uk-sports.html LONDON (AP) — Margaret Thatcher barely concealed her distaste for sports while serving as prime minister of Britain. Instead, she tried to use the athletic arena as a political weapon of sorts during the Cold War, and even took on the soccer establishment as violence at matches damaged the nation's image. So divisive was Thatcher's 11-year rule of Britain... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:39:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2006330-thatcher-troubled-relations-with-uk-sports.html 2013-04-08T19:39:21Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2002080-cuba-culture-official-demoted-ny-times-op-ed.html HAVANA (AP) — A leading Cuban cultural official said Friday that he has been demoted nearly two weeks after he published an opinion piece in the New York Times that criticized "blatant racism" on the island. In a phone interview with The Associated Press in Havana, Roberto Zurbano refused to speculate on whether his demotion from publishing director at th... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2002080-cuba-culture-official-demoted-ny-times-op-ed.html 2013-04-06T03:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1991708-pope-francis-lung.html BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Does the pope have only one lung? Despite erroneous reports that Pope Francis has lived most of his life with just one lung, the surgery actually only removed the upper part of his right lung, and his friends and family say he remains in good health for a 76-year-old man. The Buenos Aires archdiocese and ... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:46:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1991708-pope-francis-lung.html 2013-04-01T21:46:41Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1979788-argentine-illustrator-wins-child-literature-prize.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — Argentine illustrator and writer Marisol Misenta, better known as Isol, won the 5 million kronor ($780,000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature on Tuesday for picture books that "vibrate with energy and explosive emotions," the prize jury said. Isol has written and illustrated 10 children's books, starting with her 19... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:09:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1979788-argentine-illustrator-wins-child-literature-prize.html 2013-03-26T17:09:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1967994-british-horror-author-james-herbert-dies-69.html LONDON (AP) — He was a "Grand Master" of horror and rats were one of his specialties. British horror writer James Herbert, whose best-selling spine-tinglers included "The Rats" and "The Fog," has died at age 69. Herbert's publisher, Pan Macmillan, said he died Wednesday at his home in Sussex, southern England. It did not disclose the cause. ... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:32:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1967994-british-horror-author-james-herbert-dies-69.html 2013-03-20T18:32:23Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1963030-poet-ponsot-91-wins-lifetime-achievement-award.html NEW YORK (AP) — Poet, teacher and translator Marie Ponsot has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement award. The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation announced Monday the 91-year-old Ponsot has been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Ponsot has written six books of poetry and translated more than 30 books from French into English. Her previous honors include the... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:25:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1963030-poet-ponsot-91-wins-lifetime-achievement-award.html 2013-03-18T19:25:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1958746-argentine-publisher-reissues-book-pope-francis.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The naming of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis has inspired the enthusiasm not only of many Roman Catholics, but also of a publisher planning to re-launch a book about him by his official biographer, Sergio Rubin. "The Jesuit. Conversations with Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio" will be reissued Tuesday as "The Jesuit. The story of Francis... Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:38:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1958746-argentine-publisher-reissues-book-pope-francis.html 2013-03-16T04:38:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1956256-malaysias-tan-twan-eng-wins-man-asia-book-prize.html HONG KONG (AP) — Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng's novel "The Garden of Evening Mists" has won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. Tan's novel is set in the traumatic aftermath of Japan's wartime occupation of Malaya, now known as Malaysia. It tells the story of a young law school graduate who is the sole survivor of a Japanese work camp. She encounters the ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:39:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1956256-malaysias-tan-twan-eng-wins-man-asia-book-prize.html 2013-03-15T02:39:48Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1952332-folio-prize-to-reward-english-language-fiction.html LONDON (AP) — A new literary prize is hoping to beat the Booker to the title of Britain's most prestigious fiction award — in part by including Americans. Unlike the Booker Prize, which is open to British, Irish and Commonwealth writers, organizers said Wednesday the new Folio Prize will be open to any English-language writer whose work has been published... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:19:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1952332-folio-prize-to-reward-english-language-fiction.html 2013-03-13T19:19:32Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1950828-hilary-mantel-up-3rd-major-literary-award.html LONDON (AP) — Hilary Mantel is homing in on a clean sweep of Britain's three top literary prizes with a nomination for the Women's Prize for fiction. The novelist has already won the Booker and Costa prizes for her Tudor novel "Bring Up the Bodies." The 60-year-old writer is one of 20 candidates announced Wednesday for the Women's Prize, previously known ... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:31:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1950828-hilary-mantel-up-3rd-major-literary-award.html 2013-03-13T12:31:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1948526-election-dispute-big-test-kenyas-top-judge.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Confidence was so low in Kenya's courts after its 2007 election that people preferred to settle their disputes with machetes and bows and arrows. After this year's disputed presidential vote, there has been no violence, in part because of the faith the country has in its highest-ranking judge. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga will soon pr... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:55:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1948526-election-dispute-big-test-kenyas-top-judge.html 2013-03-12T15:55:55Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1931744-us-town-oks-church-takeover-solzhenitsyn-exhibit.html CAVENDISH, Vermont (AP) — Residents of a small town that was the home of exiled Soviet dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn for nearly two decades have decided to create an exhibit honoring him. About 70 voters at Monday night's Town Meeting in Cavendish overwhelmingly decided the town should take over a historic stone church to house the exhibit for t... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:41:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1931744-us-town-oks-church-takeover-solzhenitsyn-exhibit.html 2013-03-05T06:41:02Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1929930-holocaust-survivor-saved-schindler-writes-book.html NEW YORK (AP) — One of the youngest Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler has a book deal, for a manuscript completed shortly before he died. Leon Leyson's "The Boy On the Wooden Box" will be published by Atheneum on Aug. 27, the publisher announced Monday. According to Atheneum, the book will provide an "unprecedented perspective" on Schindler, th... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:14:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1929930-holocaust-survivor-saved-schindler-writes-book.html 2013-03-04T13:14:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1905602-vatican-feuds-fiefdoms-betrayals-await-pope.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A. The pope's own butler stole sensitive internal letters to the pontiff and passed them off to a journalist, who then published them in a blockbuster bo... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:37:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1905602-vatican-feuds-fiefdoms-betrayals-await-pope.html 2013-02-21T18:37:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1902846-german-childrens-author-otfried-preussler-dies.html BERLIN (AP) — Otfried Preussler, a bestselling German children's author who created "The Robber Hotzenplotz" and "The Little Witch" books, has died. He was 89. His publisher says Preussler died Monday at his home in Prien am Chiemsee. The Stuttgart, Germany-based Thienemann publishing house said in a statement Wednesday that 50 million copies of Preussler... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:22:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1902846-german-childrens-author-otfried-preussler-dies.html 2013-02-20T11:22:51Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1902492-big-italy-elex-produce-surprise-frontrunner.html ROME (AP) — If opinion polls are right, he's the man headed to win Italy's elections this month. No, not Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant media mogul chased out of office by Europe's debt crisis and attempting a comeback. Nor Mario Monti, the star economist-turned premier credited by financial circles with saving Italy from ruin. Grab... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:27:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1902492-big-italy-elex-produce-surprise-frontrunner.html 2013-02-20T07:27:29Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1887142-review-blah-memoir-wins-hatchet-job-prize.html LONDON (AP) — A critic who dismissed a divorce memoir as a stew of "vague literary blah" has won a prize celebrating the year's most lacerating book reviews. Camilla Long's review of Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation" for the Sunday Times newspaper was named winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award on Tuesday. Long acknowledged findi... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1887142-review-blah-memoir-wins-hatchet-job-prize.html 2013-02-12T20:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1886512-when-london-take-favorite-book.html LONDON (AP) — Walking toward the George Inn on a drizzly evening, yellow light from its bustling Parliament Bar spilling out on wet cobblestones, it's easy to imagine the ghostly footsteps of the past. Is that a double-decker bus rumbling down the Borough High Street? Or a four-in-hand carriage sweeping into the inn's cobbled yard? And those commuters hur... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1886512-when-london-take-favorite-book.html 2013-02-12T15:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1877184-azerbaijani-writer-punished-pitying-armenians.html BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A respected Azerbaijani author has been stripped of his pension and national honors for "insulting the dignity" of his country with a novel that describes Azerbaijanis attacking Armenians. Akram Aylisli's "Stone Dreams," set during the wake of a bitter war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karaba... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1877184-azerbaijani-writer-punished-pitying-armenians.html 2013-02-08T12:00:00Z