• Christopher Unborn
• The Crystal Frontier
• The Eagle's Throne
• Holy Place
• This I Believe
• The Years with Laura Díaz

awarded each year to the graduating senior who has the best ability and promise for future fulfillment in the field of literary endeavor

Manion, an English major from Clarksville, Md., took the prize with her submission of four short stories she considers works in progress, and excerpts of her thesis on the role of letter writing in literature -- a study that drew from the novels of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, George Eliot and Emily Bronte.

Translation to and from Arabic has been so low to the extent that, according to the UNESCO Index Translation, out of top 50 languages it is the 17th language being translated to other languages, and 29th target language (translations to Arabic)

Thirty out of 50 writers speaking at this year's Festival of Asian Literature are female, an impressive change from the London event's launch in 2007 when only two women were involved

But it's about quality writing, not quotas, as Loftus Parkins stresses. "Despite a desire to promote Asian women writers, I didn't make a conscious effort to invite mostly women to the festival. I chose the best books, and the best moderators. It just so happened that 30 are women."

When my daughter was small I used to take her to school every day and we always passed by a house that stood on the corner of a street. And suddenly, one day, I had the absurd idea of telling a story in that house. So I bought it and began to write.

This translation changes Simone Veil to Simone Weil, Tunis to Tunisia, and Birmingham to Stoke-on-Trent. Binet's half-brother becomes a brother-in-law. Heydrich says 36 Jews were murdered on Kristallnacht, one more than stated previously. There are cuts as well as slips. Our presumed ignorance or impatience may account for lost lines about, say, medieval Bohemia; but why does Heydrich no longer vow to shove his deputy into a mass grave ?

Far better to have HHhH in English than not at all, of course, yet more could have been preserved, in terms of tone as well as detail. [...] The French expects you to know the story already; the English worries you won't keep up.

Do you read reviews of your work still ?

I try not to. It's stupid. It's only driven by ambition and vanity, insecurity.

At the entrance is a wall display of cigarette butts -- 4,213, arranged in columns dated 1976-84. However, fiction upon fiction, these cigarette butts are facsimiles, as real cigarettes would decay in the glass display.

I don't write hatchet jobs. A thoroughly negative review needs to justify its existence thoroughly, and for that you need a lot of words, and Time's book reviews don't run long enough. So if I don't like a book, I leave it alone. Books come into this world mortally wounded as it is. It's pretty rare that a book is so malignant and so tough that it needs someone like me to come along and finish it off. It's enough to deny them care.

In a published report of their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers concluded that the literary styles of modern authors vary from their predecessors more than authors of previous eras. This gap between authors and their immediate predecessors has widened over generations in a quantifiable manner.

We find temporal stylistic localization among authors through the analysis of the similarity structure in feature vectors derived from content-free word usage, nonhomogeneous decay rates of stylistic influence, and an accelerating rate of decay of influence among modern authors. Within a given time period we also find evidence for stylistic coherence with a given literary topic, such that writers in different fields adopt different literary styles.

Managing director of Iranian Fiction Foundation Mohammad Hassani said that the foundation's international section has been established and it will render a selection of Persian contemporary literature into other languages.

Do Debut authors turn to self-publishing ? And how is self-publishing in Russia, by the way ?

OS: Many Debut authors have enough material for a book or two, and failing to find a publisher, they often make it available on the Web, where an outstanding work can easily get lost in the sea of online garbage. In the provinces, writers often find sponsors to subsidize the publication of their books. But booksellers rarely carry these titles. Back in the 1990s, a self-published author would stand in an underground passage and often sell more copies per day than what a bookshop now can do with some bestsellers. In those days, people regarded books as something in short supply that they should immediately grab. Today, authors turn to self-publishing mostly for economic reasons. However, such books often have little impact on the overall literary scene.