The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation announced that this year the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award constituting $10,000 stipend is presented to Wendell Berry – a writer, poet, essayist and full-time farmer. The award carries the name of the American diplomat who was mostly responsible for the signing of… Read More →
Stephen King is, undoubtedly, one of the most well-known writers of today – not only in his genre, but in literature as a whole. It is a far less widely known fact that among his relatives he is far from being alone in this respect – all in all there… Read More →
Richard Matheson, a prolific science fiction, fantasy and horror writer, died Sunday, June 25th, 2013 at the age of 87. He was well-known as a versatile writer working in many fields that are often considered to be incompatible: we wrote 25 novels, a number of screenplays for film and television… Read More →
Poe Baltimore, the organization which is going to take over the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, has announced the date of reopening: October 4, 2013. This does not simply mean that the old museum will be reopened – although located on the same premises and displaying most… Read More →
As it was revealed the previous week, the true author of the detective novel Cuckoo’s Calling released back in April is not a Robert Galbraith, but the world-famous British novelist Joanne Rowling, the author of best-selling Harry Potter series. It is hard to say now why it has turned out… Read More →
