Israeli writer Amos Oz wins 2013 Kafka award
Amos Oz, Israel’s best-known writer, was on Monday named the winner of this year’s international Franz Kafka literary prize for his imaginative tales of life in the Jewish state.
Amos Oz, Israel’s best-known writer, was on Monday named the winner of this year’s international Franz Kafka literary prize for his imaginative tales of life in the Jewish state.
Author Tan Twang Eng became the first Malaysian author to win Asia’s top literary prize on Thursday for his novel set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
The shortlist for the $30,000 Man Asian Literary Prize was announced on Wednesday. Here is a look at the five contenders:
British novelist Hilary Mantel on Tuesday made literary history by becoming the first woman and the first British author to become a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction.
