A Hong Kong judge convicted five speech therapists of sedition on Sept. 7 for publishing children’s books about sheep and wolves. District Judge Kwok Wai-kin found — Lorie Lai, Melody … Read more
Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie has been placed on a ventilator and may lose function of his eye and liver after he was stabbed twice onstage at the Chautauqua Institution … Read more
Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French co-creator and cartoonist of “Le Petit Nicolas” (Little Nicholas) series of children’s books, died at age 89 on Aug. 11. Sempé died peacefully surrounded by his … Read more
American best-selling horror novelist Stephen King testified on Aug. 2 in an anti-trust trial to block the $2.2 billion merger of the two biggest book publishers in the United States. … Read more
Michael Longley, a poet from Belfast, will receive a €250,000 ($261,292) European cultural award. At a ceremony in November, Longley will accept the Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry. Italy’s Accademia … Read more
Geetanjali Shree on May 26 became the first Indian author to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. Shree’s novel, “Tomb of Sand,” is the first book originally written in any … Read more
The Florida Department of Education on April 15 rejected 54 new mathematics textbooks from next school year’s curriculum, citing references to critical race theory among its reasons for the rejections. … Read more
Taiwan’s military released a defense handbook with information on possible military crises and disasters to teach Taiwanese various emergency responses. The Ministry of National Defense has compiled the National Defense … Read more
Fiji-based authors published adventure series for children that talked about critical ocean themes from sea-level rises and pollution to ocean acidification and deforestation to inspire the children of the Pacific … Read more
A Dutch publishing house has apologized for a new book that claimed to identify a Jewish notary as the prime suspect for the betrayal of Anne Frank and her family … Read more