- China bars HIV-positive Aussie author
- China has refused a visa to Australian writer Robert Dessaix on the grounds he is HIV-positive.
- Doug Wright Awards finalists named
- Cover artist Seth and web-comic creator Kate Beaton are among the finalists for the 2010 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian comics that were announced Friday.
- Canada Reads 2010 chooses a winner
- A winner has been chosen in CBC Radio One's Canada Reads series, in which a celebrity jury votes for a single book it can recommend to all Canadians.
- Spanish writer Delibes dies at 89
- Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed Spanish novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life, died Friday. He was 89.
- Crummey, Mitchell win Commonwealth book honours
- Nova Scotia writer Shandi Mitchell and Newfoundland and Labrador's Michael Crummey advance to the finals of the Commonwealth Writers Prize after their books were chosen winners in the Canada and Caribbean category Thursday.
- Debut works dominate B.C. fiction prize
- Three debut novels, including the much-lauded The Golden Mean, have scooped nominations for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, one of seven B.C. book prizes.
- Russian poetry, Israeli novel take translation prizes
- An Israeli novel translated from Hebrew and a collection of Russian poetry have won an American prize for best translation.
- Google to scan books in Italy's libraries
- Italy has signed a deal with Google to have up to 1 million old books from its two national libraries scanned and made available online.
- Trudeau bio wins political writing prize
- A biography of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
- Ralston Saul wins Korea's Manhae Prize
- John Ralston Saul, a Canadian author and president of International PEN, has been awarded South Korea's Manhae Grand Prize for literature.
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