Book News Archive March 2006:
31/03/2006 Fay Weldon to take creative writing post
Fay Weldon has been appointed professor of creative writing at Brunel University. 
30/03/2006 Oliver, Rowling honoured at British Book Awards
Jamie Oliver and JK Rowling were among the authors honoured at last night's British Book Awards in London.
29/03/2006 Jennifer Farrell's Beached takes Hennessy Award
The 2005 Hennessy New Irish Writer Award has been won by Jennifer Farrell for her First Fiction short story Beached.
28/03/2006 Cork celebrates World Book Festival in April
Cork will celebrate World Book Festival from the 21 to 23 April with a series of free events on Grand Parade, in the City Library, Bishop Lucey Park and Triskel.
27/03/2006 McGahern, Heaney for Dublin Writers Festival
John McGahern and Seamus Heaney are to take part in the 2006 Dublin Writers Festival, which takes place from Wednesday 14 June to Sunday 18 June.
24/03/2006 Gary Oldman to star in fifth Potter film
Despite the rumours that Gary Oldman would not be involved in the fifth Harry Potter film, The Order of the Phoenix, it has been confirmed that he has agreed a deal to once again star as Sirius Black.
22/03/2006 Johnny Cash's first wife to publish autobiography
Vivian Liberto Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife, has written a book about her life with the singer which will be published early next year.
21/03/2006 Roberts for adaptation of Leimbach's Daniel Isn't Talking
Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts is in talks to star in a film adaptation of Marti Leimbach's novel Daniel Isn't Talking.
20/03/2006 Film rights sold for children's book Stoneheart
Paramount Pictures has bought the film rights to a children's book by screenwriter Charlie Fletcher called Stoneheart.
16/03/2006 Grace Metalious biopic to star Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock is to star in a biopic of American author Grace Metalious, best known as the author of controversial 1956 novel Peyton Place.
15/03/2006 Award for new writers in Ireland and UK
Booker Prize-nominated author Colm Tóibín launched the Glen Dimplex New Writers' Awards at the Irish Writers' Centre in Dublin on Monday.
14/03/2006 Greville, McWatt winners of 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Australian Kate Grenville and Mark McWatt of Guyana are the winners of the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes for Best Book and Best First Book.
13/03/2006 Actress Fiona Shaw to join Booker judging panel
Cork actress Fiona Shaw will be on the 2006 panel which chooses the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
10/03/2006 Irvine Welsh to introduce film at the IFI
Scottish novelist and screenwriter Irvine Welsh will take part in a new event at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin.
09/03/2006 Kylie moves into the world of publishing
According to reports on the BBC, Kylie Minogue is writing a children's book based on her life as a pop star.
08/03/2006 Brown back in court for Da Vinci Code case
Author Dan Brown was present in court on Tuesday to hear evidence from Richard Baigent, the New Zealand-born historian who, with his writing companion Richard Leigh, is suing over copyright infringement in The Da Vinci Code.
07/03/2006 Danes, De Niro for Stardust film adaptation
Claire Danes and Robert De Niro are among the actors who have signed up to star in Stardust, the Matthew Vaughn-directed adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
06/03/2006 Orange Prize longlist announced
The Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, today announced the 2006 longlist.
03/03/2006 Eastern writers dominate Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist
The shortlist for the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, announced last night, was dominated by Eastern European writers.
02/03/2006 Irish Novel of the Year for Banville
Irish novelist John Banville won another literary prize last night, taking the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year award for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea at the inaugural Irish Book Awards.
01/03/2006 Frank O'Connor prize-winner on Kiriyama Prize shortlist
Chinese author Yiyun Li, the winner of last year's inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is on the shortlist for the Kiriyama Prize..
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