JK Rowling has written a prequel to Harry Potter.

Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing thinks Barack Obama would be assassinated if he became US president, the British writer said in a newspaper interview.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

NOBEL Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has called the September 11 attacks “not that terrible” compared to the campaign of terror waged by the IRA.

A British writer has reportedly claimed the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington were important but “not that terrible” when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain.

DORIS LESSING, author of The Golden Notebook, won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday. She was praised by the judges for her “scepticism, fire and visionary power”.

British writer Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, it was announced today.

IRELAND’S John Banville has been pitched against literary heavyweights Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and 13 other writers from around the world in the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize.

WRITING is hard work, Doris Lessing told the 500 people who gathered to hear her read on Saturday. “And keeping writing is even harder.”

The 18 contenders for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize were announced today.