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The Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women was won by Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . With this she has become the first African to take the award in its history of 12-year. Adichie is also the youngest author to have won the prize. She is...

Japan will honor the artists in the comic book field abroad for the first time this summer. The "Nobel Prize of Manga" is another step towards Japan's pop culture tactics. The International Manga Award will be given to a foreign artist, whose work...

The winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books is finally out. Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness won £10,000 award. There were six nominations for the prize. Each of the runner up received £1,000 at the Society's headquarters.

Angolan journalist and author Jose Eduardo Agualusa has won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his book 'The book of Chameleons'. He shares the prize money of £10,000 prize money with translator Daniel Hahn. Jose writes in...

The PEN/Borders Literary Service Award is out with the name of their first winner and its no other than the legendary American author Gore Vidal. In a statement, Borders Group CEO George Jones said, 'a truly distinguished American writer whose...

Elizabeth Alexander, author of four books of verse received the first annual Jackson Poetry Prize. This $50,000 award has been graded for poets with exceptional talents and genius and who haven't yet got the deserved commendation. The award is named...