Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river.

Bestselling author Haruki Murakami is to appear at a Q and A session in Japan in May, in a rare public appearance for the publicity-shy but wildly popular writer, its organizer said Tuesday.

Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her mother's scrapbooks. She burst into laughter, she says, as she came across a poem that her brother John, as a youngster, had picked out and copied as a gift to their poetry-loving mom.

Japanese comic strip soccer superhero Captain Tsubasa, who has inspired stars such as Lionel Messi and Fernando Torres, has returned from a storybook stint in Spain to save his “birthplace.”

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban as she returned home from school, is writing a book about the traumatic event and her long-running campaign to promote children's education.

Letters, an unpublished short story and William Faulkner's Nobel Prize medal could sell for more than US$2 million when archival materials of the author are sold at auction in June, Sotheby's said on Thursday.

Argentine illustrator and writer Marisol Misenta, better known as Isol, won the 5-million-kronor (US$780,000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature on Tuesday for picture books that “vibrate with energy and explosive emotions,” the prize jury said.

The home state of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the “father of modern African literature” who died this week in the United States, wants him to be buried in his native community, an official said Saturday.

Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years old when she first read Chinua Achebe's groundbreaking novel “Things Fall Apart.”

A supernaturally tinged barnyard manual has won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.