Book News Archive September 2005:
30/09/2005 Renée Zellweger in Beatrix Potter biopic
American actress Renée Zellweger has signed up to play Beatrix Potter in a biopic of the celebrated children's author.
29/09/2005 World premiere of Binchy's Tara Road for Dublin
The film of Maeve Binchy's acclaimed novel Tara Road will receive its world premiere release at the Savoy cinema in Dublin tonight.
28/09/2005 Debut author wins inaugural Frank O'Connor award
The first ever Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was presented to Chinese author Yiyun Li for her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
27/09/2005 Winfrey to produce The Colour Purple musical
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey will produce a Broadway musical based on Alice Walker's acclaimed novel The Colour Purple.
26/09/2005 Authors sue Google over book archival
A writers' group in America is suing Google over plans to digitise major library book collections, alleging that the move amounts to massive copyright infringement.
25/09/2005 Potter sales in US hit 11 million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the latest book in the JK Rowling series, sold more books in its first two weeks as any other author's book in a whole year.
23/09/2005 Ford to star in film adaptation of Swanson's Manhunt
Although James L Swanson's Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer has yet to be published, the film adaptation of this Civil War drama already has a star.
22/09/2005 Honorary awards for Mailer, Ferlinghetti
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti are to be presented with honorary awards by the US-based National Book Foundation.
21/09/2005 TS Eliot letters, poems auctioned in London
A selection of unpublished letters from poet TS Eliot along with a first edition of The Waste Land, inscribed by the author, have sold for £242,652 at auction on Tuesday.
20/09/2005 Ronson's book to hit big screen
Jon Ronson's acclaimed book, Them: Adventures with Extremists will be adapted for the big screen.
16/09/2005 Donegal teen cast in Notes on a Scandal film
Donegal actor Andrew Simpson has been cast in the film adaptation of Zo Heller's Notes on a Scandal.
16/09/2005 World food media nominees announced
It has been announced that Stephanie Alexander, Dean Brettschneider and Lauraine Jacobs, Nigella Lawson and Anthony Bourdain are among the nominees for the 2005 World Food Media Awards.
14/09/2005 Roberts' niece to star in Nancy Drew movie
Emma Roberts, the 14-year-old niece of Julia Roberts, is to play teenage detective Nancy Drew in a film version of the long running book series.
13/09/2005 Brokeback Mountain takes gold at Venice Film Festival
Brokeback Mountain, the film adaptation of the E Annie Proulx novella, was the winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
12/09/2005 Rolling Stone to publish Thompson note
American magazine Rolling Stone will publish a note written by author and gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson four days before he committed suicide.
09/09/2005 Two Irish authors for Booker Prize shortlist
Irish authors John Banville and Julian Barnes are among the six authors on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
08/09/2005 Rowling portrait unveiled in London
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling unveiled a three-dimensional portrait of herself at the National Portrait Gallery in London last night.
07/09/2005 Finucane Show writing series published
A Page in the Life, which is a collection of pieces from the writing series that ran on RTÉ 1 radio programme, the Marian Finucane Show, was published yesterday.
06/09/2005 Book lovers predict the classics of the future
Contemporary bestselling novels by authors Mark Haddon, Louis de Bernières, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Connor, Sebastian Faulks and Margaret Atwood have been chosen by reading groups around the country as the books most likely to be the classics of the future.
06/09/2005 French author Houellebecq snubs critics
Michel Houellebecq, France's most inflammatory novelist, snubbed French literary critics last week when he launched his new book amidst an intense campaign of secrecy.
05/09/2005 Pamuk faces jail in Turkey after genocide allegations
Acclaimed Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has been charged with the "public denigrating of Turkish identity" after making comments on his county's killing of Armenians and Kurds.
02/09/2005 Constant Gardener receives rave reviews
The film adaptation of The Constant Gardener opened on Wednesday in America and received rave reviews.
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