Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been taken to hospital in Mexico City. Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for…
Two stolen paintings by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard have been found hanging on an Italian factory worker's kitchen wall…
Mario Vargas Llosa has announced he will travel to Venezuela to back anti-Maduro groups. The Peruvian Nobel Prize winning author…
Vatican Radio’s new digital archive will made available to the public audio recordings featuring the voices of popes from as…
A Rembrandt painting has been recovered in France, 15 years after it was stolen. The 17th Century painting L'enfant a…
JRR Tolkien’s translation of the Old English poem Beowulf is to be published for the first time, nearly nine decades…
The Vatican Library has begun digitizing its collection of ancient manuscripts dating from the origins of the Catholic Church. The…
Indian writer and journalist Khushwant Singh has died at the age of 99, his family announces. Khushwant Singh wrote dozens…
J.K. Rowling is continuing to expand Harry Potter’s wizarding world with her new website, Pottermore.com. On Friday, J.K. Rowling released…
Madrid's Teatro Royal director Gerard Mortier has died from cancer at the age of 70. Gerard Mortier, who was born…