PEN America "champions the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world"...

Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, died on December 24, at the age of 96.

Though you might have thought of her as Princess Leia, the Mystery Woman from The Blues Brothers, or Sally's best friend in When Harry Met Sally, Carrie Fisher made a name for herself as a bestselling author by being very much herself.

Last night, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 National Book Awards.

Picking our best book of the year is a different experience each time. Sometimes it's difficult and sometimes it's easy. In 2016, it was both.

A multi-generational novel that explores the survivors of Mao's Cultural Revolution and reaches to the events of Tiananmen Square, the book was also shortlisted for the UK's Man Booker Prize.

Paul Beatty's The Sellout has won the prize given "to encourage the widest possible readership for the best in literary fiction." Also £50,000. He is the first U.S. writer to win the award.

Today the Swedish Academy awarded Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

Here is the National Book Award shortlist for Poetry:

The 2016 National Book Award longlists for Fiction and Nonfiction have been announced.

The shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize has been announced. Originally awarded in 1969, the prize endeavors "to encourage the widest possible readership for the best in literary fiction."

The ten longlist contenders for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature have been announced and include some of our own favorites.