New ReviewHungarian author Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature, recognized for his unique narrative style and profound contributions to contemporary literature.

For years, a bookstore owner in Hong Kong smuggled banned books into mainland China. His work made him a target.

Ahead of the European elections in May, Euronews teams are taking a road trip across the continent to listen to people’s hopes and demands. In Spain’s Murcia, in the southeast or the country, 25-year-old literary sensation Miguel Gane...

French intellectual, writer, and peace activist Marek Halter spoke to Euronews' Isabelle Kumar about the challenges he faced writing his memoirs and how his efforts for peace in the Middle East are far from over. Of Polish origin, Halter...

Poetry is having a huge surge, largely through the growing popularity of so-called "Insta-poets." These young writers built their audience using Instagram, and have now drifted into the world of celebrity, gracing the front rows of...

The professor, writer and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate makes a case for Canadians to put aside the Harper Lee classic in favour of other anti-racism works.

The author on how she relates to the 11-year-old protagonist, who escapes life as a field slave in the cane fields of Barbados.

'The book is a really sort of a portrait of a consciousness,' says the 2018 Giller finalist.

The first-time Giller finalist explores the human ability to love despite impermanence, heartbreak and loss.

The writer discusses his attempts to explore common ground with unpleasant characters.

The writer shares what he hopes readers will take from his bestselling, translated novel.

Unseen for 50 Years, the most famous map in children’s literature goes on sale with four other sketches about Christopher Robin and his friends Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore. Drawn by illustrator E.H. Shepard, the map illustrated...

Unseen for 50 Years, the most famous map in children’s literature goes on sale with four other sketches about Christopher Robin and his friends Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore. Drawn by illustrator E.H. Shepard, the map illustrated...

There will be no Nobel Prize for Literature awarded this year, because the organization that decides the winner is dealing with a scandal over sexual assault allegations.

From actors and writers to musicians, the close of the year is a time to remember those who inspired and challenged us but whose muse has been silenced. David Bowie The year began with British music icon David Bowie’s death from cancer....

Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The announcement had the effect of a bombshell. Bob Dylan is the first musician to...

As Britain marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, a group of actors including Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi have come together to try and help the audience better understand his work. They’re doing this through the...

Shakespeare in Ten Acts is an exhibition about the performances that made the Bard into the icon that we know today. It looks at ten key performances of his works, from the first showing of Hamlet at the Globe Theatre around 1600 to a...

The Italian author and intellectual Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84. An accomplished scholar, Eco was nearly 50 years old when his first novel,“The Name of the Rose’, was published in 1980. The medieval murder mystery, set in a...

The Canadian mystery author talks to Wendy Mesley about the twists and turns in her personal story.

Sir Ian McKellen is set for a new role. The British actor who has tackled Shakespeare’s works on stage and screen is to be a bus tour guide for the forthcoming festival, ““Shakespeare on Film”“:http://www.bfi.org.uk/shakespeare-film-0....

Sales of e-books are down, and the printed word is seeing a resurgence.

Canadian author Heather O’Neill talks about her connection to Alice Munro’s stories and how the Nobel laureate earned her rank as one of the masters of the short story.

Alice Munro, the Canadian author who was revered worldwide as master of the short story and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 92.