Book News Archive April 2005:
30/04/2005 Mailer sells archive to The University of Texas
Norman Mailer has sold his archive to The University of Texas it was announced earlier this week. 
28/04/2005 Oliver Stone to direct new Ellroy film
Oliver Stone is in talks to direct The Night Watch Man, the new crime thriller by James Ellroy.
27/04/2005 Reagan diaries to be published
Ronald Reagan's handwritten diaries of his eight years in the White House are going to be published.
27/04/2005 Augusto Roa Bastos dies, aged 88
Augusto Roa Bastos, the Paraguayan writer and winner of the Cervantes prize has died.
26/04/2005 Orange launch new prize to celebrate 10th anniversary
To celebrate the 10th year of the Orange Prize for fiction Orange have launched a new prize.
25/04/2005 Tóibín wins LA Times Award
Colm Tóibín has won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Award for his novel The Master.
25/04/2005 Irish authors unite for tsunami relief
Moments, a book of short stories written by Irish authors in aid of the tsunami disaster fund goes on sale today.
25/04/2005 Peace awarded James Tait Memorial Prize
David Peace has been awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for his political thriller, titled GB84, which is written from the point of view of a striking miner.
24/04/2005 Carey to write children's fiction
Mariah Carey is following in Madonna's footsteps by becoming a children's author.
22/04/2005 American Novelists beg Oprah for help
A group of published and award-winning novelists have written Oprah an open letter, begging her to resume picking new novels for her popular book club.
22/04/2005 Don Quixote gets boost in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged everyone to read Miguel de Cervantes' Spanish classic, Don Quixote.
21/04/2005 Brown takes Best Book for Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown's controversial but bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code, was last night named Best Book at the British Book Awards in London.
21/04/2005 C.K. Williams wins $100,000 poetry prize
C.K. Williams has been named the winner of this year's Ruth Lily Poetry Prize.
20/04/2005 McKellen joins cast of Da Vinci Code
Ian McKellen has joined the cast of the big screen adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code.
20/04/2005 New Pope's books flying off shelves
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger being selected as the new pope has led to a huge demand for his books.
20/04/2005 Samuel Johnson Prize longlist announced
Biographies of playwright William Shakespeare, politician Winston Churchill, artist Henri Matisse, author BS Johnson and actress Mary Robinson are among the books longlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
19/04/2005 Dückers marks World Book Day in Cork
German author Tanja Dückers and Cork-born poet and novelist Martina Evans will read together on World Book Day in Cork.
18/04/2005 Shortlist for Orange Prize announced
The shortlist for the Orange Prize for fiction was announced today.
17/04/2005 Bill Cullen sets new world record
Bill Cullen succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest ever book signing in Easons, O'Connell Street, Dublin yesterday.
15/04/2005 Literary bloggers unite to highlight overlooked books
A group of American literary bloggers announced last week that they will begin working together in the hope of drawing readers to books they feel deserve more attention.
15/04/2005 Musicians line up for Burns festival
Roddy Frame, the ex-frontman of Aztec Camera, is to perform a rare solo set at Burns An' A' That!, a festival to celebrate the work of Scotland's best loved bard Robbie Burns.
14/04/2005 Rowling says new Harry Potter book is her favourite
British author JK Rowling told The Sun newspaper that the latest Harry Potter book - The Half Blood Prince - is one of the best she has written.
13/04/2005 Forest Whitaker to star in The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker is to play Idi Amin, in the big screen adaptation of the award winning novel, The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden.
13/04/2005 Winners of Book Sense Book of the Year Awards Announced
The American Booksellers association announced the winners of the Book Sense Book of the Year Awards yesterday.
12/04/2005 World Record Attempt at launch of Bill Cullen's new book
Bill Cullen the author of It's a Long Way from Penny Apples, announced today that he will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever book signing.
12/04/2005 Feminist Andrea Dworkin dies, aged 59
American feminist icon, writer and scholar Andrea Dworkin died on Saturday at the age of 59.
11/04/2005 German author Schätzing accused of plagiarism
Frank Schätzing, one of Germany's most successful writers, has been accused of lifting chunks of his latest book from a scientific website, according to the Guardian newspaper.
10/04/2005 Zimbabwean writer Vera dies, aged 40
One of Zimbabwe's most prominent writers, Yvonne Vera has died aged 40 of meningitis.
08/04/2005 Dickens theme park for Britain
A £60m theme park, based on the life and work of Charles Dickens, is due to open in Kent in 2007.
06/04/2005 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Saul Marilynne Robinson was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction for her novel Gilead.
06/04/2005 American writer Saul Bellow dies, aged 89
Saul Bellow, considered to be one of America's greatest novelists in the years after World War II, has died aged 89.
05/04/2005 Libraries in Steinbeck's hometown under threat
Over one hundred supporters turned out at the weekend to help save the libraries in American author John Steinbeck's hometown of Salinas, California.
04/04/2005 Books about and by Pope climb charts
Since the death of Pope John Paul II on Saturday night, sales of books by him and about him have soared.
04/04/2005 Osbournes quit The Vagina Monologues
Sharon Osbourne and her daughter Aimee have withdrawn from a West End production of The Vagina Monologues because Aimee is ill, according to a spokeswoman.
02/04/2005 Aslam, Mehta to share Kiriyama Prize
Nadeem Aslam's novel, Maps for Lost Lovers, and Suketu Mehta's Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found are the joint winners of this year's Kiriyama Prize.
01/04/2005 Da Vinci Code for Children
Who Can Crack the Leonardo Da Vinci Code? by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina will give children the opportunity to learn about Leonardo Da Vinci.
01/04/2005 Reading by Evelyn Conlon
Novelist, short story writer and reviewer Evelyn Conlon will read at the De Valera Library on Tuesday 5th April at 7pm.
01/04/2005 Potter Director may film Life of Pi
Alfonso Cuarón, director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is in talks to bring Yann Martell's bestseller, Life of Pi to cinema screens.
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