Authors A.S. Byatt, J.M. Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Hilary Mantel, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters have been nominated for Britain's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The winner of the honor and an $83,000 cash award is to be announced at a ceremony in London Oct. 6.

By Joan Dupont Once dedicated to discovering small gems from faraway places, the Toronto Film Festival, now in its 33rd year, has evolved into something so big that old friends and even its founders must scramble to find the original spirit.

By MATTHEWS, Philip Author Ian McEwan takes time out from a busy schedule to talk to PHILIP MATTHEWS about his novels, which he describes as "something exploratory, an extended investigation of human nature". .

By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - Irish writer John Banville was the surprise winner on Monday of the Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, for "The Sea," his poignant and dark novel about childhood memories.

By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - British author Julian Barnes was hot favorite on Monday to land the prestigious Booker Prize with a quirky tale of Sherlock Holmes' creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.