Bernardine Evaristo

FILE - Natalie Portman participates in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film "Lucy in the Sky" on Oct. 2, 2019, in New York.The Oscar-winning actress has agreed to serve as honorary chair of National Library Week, the American Library Association announced Monday. National Library Week will run next April 4-10, and Portman will help promote the role libraries have played in their communities during the pandemic. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Bookish: Natalie Portman to chair National Library Week

Dec. 07, 2020 10:02 AM EST

Americans dominate diverse list of Booker Prize contenders

By Jill Lawless Nov. 19, 2020 05:23 AM EST
LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize judges are meeting Thursday to pick a winner of the prestigious literary award, choosing from a six-book list that's both U.S....

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, author and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award for 2012 Hilary Mantel poses for photographers at the Costa Book awards ceremony in London. Hilary Mantel’s book “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” are among six finalists for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction, with the winner due to be announced on Sept. 9, delayed because of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction's Women's Prize

Apr. 21, 2020 03:28 PM EDT