

Author Stephen Cole talks about writing a Sarah Jane Adventure compared to a Doctor Who story. Stephen's "The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Glittering Storm" read by Elisabeth Sladen, is one of many Sarah Jane, Doctor Who and Torchwood audiobooks available from BBC Audio on CD and download from all good retailers, including: http://www.audible.co.uk/bbcaudiozone/doctorwho http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/9781405678247
| Finalists Announced for Coveted TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) The Canadian Children's Book Centre and TD Bank Financial Group are proud to announce the finalists of the 2008 TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards for the most distinguished books of the year. |
| Kurdish novel re-writes rules (BBC News) A leading novelist's latest work could mark a new era for Kurdish literature, writes Kereem Abdulrahman. |
| Doris Lessing receives Nobel Prize in Literature (International Herald Tribune) Lessing has written candidly about the inner lives of women and rejected the notion that they should abandon their own lives to marriage and children. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy called her an "epicist of the female experience." |
| Age of Consent: Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" (indieWIRE) In what may be a perfect sophisto storm, none other than Sir Ben Kingsley plays Philip Roth 's academic antihero David Kepesh, a solemn piano underscoring his negotiations with sex, art, and mortality in the Continental Manhattan of Isabel Coixet 's new film, " Elegy ." Kepesh teaches literature at Columbia and, as a low-key celebrity cultural critic -- is there any other kind of intellectual ... |
| Nobel Literature Laureates (CBS News) (AP) Nobel literature laureates since 1945: --- 1998: Jose Saramago, Portuguese 1997: Dario Fo, Italian 1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Polish. 1995: Seamus Heaney, Irish. |
