16-03-02 Everyone Poops Author Taro Gomi illustrates how all animals and humans need to have a number two. Which, as an adult, is important and helpful to remember the next time you are in a tense and scary situation at work. All my friends are dead If you'r...

15-11-04 Junot Daz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) The winner in this BBC Culture critics' poll is Junot Diaz's first novel, about New Jersey ghetto-nerd Oscar, who dreams of being the Dominican-American Tolkien and finding love. It also was nam...

15-09-09 Chinese writer Liu Cixin has become the first Asian author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, receiving the 2015 honor for his book, The Three-Body Problem. 中国作家刘慈欣凭借作品《三体》获得2015年雨果奖最佳长篇故事奖，成为首位获得雨果奖的亚洲人...

14-12-13 据外国媒体报道，《哈利波特》系列故事要有新料了！小说原作者J.K.罗琳透露，圣诞期间她会更新一系列相关的小故事。而有报道称，其中一个的主角会是人气反派德拉科马尔福，少爷的粉丝圣诞有福了！ It's going to be a magical Christmas, after all. J.K. Rowling will...

14-08-13 The kind bishop intimately asked an author's son, Do you want to become an author like your father? No, replied the author's son. Then what is your ambition, my little man? said the bishop. I want to become a famous person, then anything I write wil...

14-04-15 The landlady said to the hard-up author: When will you pay arrears（拖欠，滞付） of room rent? The author replied: I will pay you as soon as I receive the check that the publisher will send me if he accepts the novel that I am about to start writing...

12-04-25 All's Well That Ends Well has another author as well as William Shakespeare, according to research from Oxford University academics. 牛津大学学术社的研究显示，《终成眷属》除了威廉莎士比亚之外还有另一位作者托马斯米德尔顿。 Thomas Middleton has been r...

10-07-19 Singapore police have arrested a British author of a book about the city-state's use of the death penalty. 新加坡警方逮捕了一位英国作家，该作家著有一本关于新加坡政府使用死刑的书籍。 Alan Shadrake has written a book about Singapore's use of the death...

09-11-02 Author Yann Martel is to follow his Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi with another story focusing on animals. 布克小说奖获奖作品《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》的作者Yann Martel将要撰写下一步以动物为主题的小说。 Beatrice and Virgil will be Yann Martel\'s th...

09-07-20 Frank McCourt, author of best-seller Angela's Ashes, has died of cancer in a New York hospice. 畅销书Angela's Ashes的作者Frank McCourt，因癌症在纽约一家医院逝世。 McCourt contracted meningitis while being treated for melanoma The 78-year-old Irish-A...