Faber will no longer distribute Sally Rooney's books in the United Kingdom, in any format, the author and publisher said on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. Rooney says her support for the proscribed group Palestine Action makes continued UK sales a legal risk.
The image, called The Aftermath and shot in Namibia's Huab river valley, shows an elephant carrying a dead calf that was not her own. It tops the Natural History Museum's 2026 contest, which drew more than 65,000 entries from 121 countries and territories.
Louvre director Christophe Leribault says the Paris museum could eventually have to shut to the public without a renovation, days before the first anniversary of the 2025 jewel heist. Security works are under way, but he calls the wider overhaul the only way to secure its future.
The 75th Premio Planeta, which drew a record 1,424 manuscripts, will be awarded on Thursday, 15 October, at Fira de Barcelona. Nine finalists are in contention for a prize of one million euros.
A. A. Milne's book was published in London on 14 October 1926, a week before its New York edition. Since then it has been translated into more than 70 languages and spread through Disney films and merchandise.
The 2,050 square metre extension at 68 Zurbano Street opens to visitors on Thursday, 15 October, while the Sorolla house itself remains under renovation. An exhibition on the building's architecture from 1905 to 2026 opens alongside it.
The novel Mi amor no muere, published in Spain by Alfaguara, is based on a real 'Ndrangheta case involving a Florentine student who fell in love with a man from a Calabrian mafia family. Nobody was ever convicted in her case.
The Swedish Academy announced the prize on 9 October, worth about one million euros. Carson, who is 76, was reached by phone while she was in Iceland.
The Canadian-Haitian author says no sentence of his novel was written by a machine, while apologising for copying passages from established writers after moving to Canada.
British novelist and former Conservative peer Jeffrey Archer died at home at age 86, one day before the publication of his final novel, 'Adam and Eve'.
Burglars took the 150-kilogram bronze cover of L'Apocalypse, sculpted by Salvador Dali, from a private contemporary art centre in Issoire overnight between 4 and 5 October 2026.
Spotify announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it is expanding its audiobook service from 22 markets to more than 180 countries by the end of 2026, granting access to more than 750 million listeners across 120 languages.
Hundreds of people queued in Hong Kong on Tuesday to see Chestnut Trees in Blossom, a Van Gogh painting not shown publicly in more than six decades, before its 18 November sale in New York.
Piraeus-born writer Dionysis Charitopoulos died at 79 after a stay in an Attica hospital. Kathimerini dates the death to 8 October, and publisher Topos announced it on 9 October.
Author Shida Bazyar received the 2026 German Book Prize on 5 October in Frankfurt for Die Lücken, a novel exploring 90 years of provincial German history and suppressed Nazi memory.
Aragon's Provincial Commission of Cultural Heritage in Huesca approved on Friday the dismantling, packing and transport of the paintings from the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. The planned schedule runs from 19 October to 5 November, but the MNAC says the calendar is provisional until it receives the official documentation.
The Prix Renaudot jury retained Thélyson Orélien's novel in its second round on Wednesday, diverging from decisions by the Goncourt and Femina academies following accusations of plagiarism and AI use.
The Senegalese writer and former government minister, whose 1961 novel Ambiguous Adventure explored the psychological impact of French colonial rule, died at his home in Dakar.
The survey of 3,100 high-net-worth collectors in ten markets found Gen Z buyers account for almost half of purchases above $1 million. Family remains the main entry point, and more collectors now use AI tools to research their purchases.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice heard Wolfgang Beltracchi's claim on Friday, 9 October, over a 2006 sale of a painting he forged. A ruling is due on 15 January.
A collection of personal notes written by the late Pope Francis between December 1992 and August 2024 will be released worldwide in five languages on 24 November 2026.
Editorial Planeta will release Isabel Díaz Ayuso's first book, titled Íntimo, on 2 December 2026, documenting the Madrid regional president's personal life and political career.
A 1951 oil painting by Chicago surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, purchased for $30 at a Kalamazoo estate sale, sold for $1.35 million at Freeman's after vanishing from public view for over 70 years.
The British Museum is introducing extended hours, audio guides, and extra seating after visitors faced two-hour queues and early closures at the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.
The Goncourt Academy excluded Canadian-Haitian author Thélyson Orélien from its 15-novel selection list after an online collective alleged his bestseller C'était ça ou mourir was written with artificial intelligence.
Szczepan Twardoch won the 30th Nike Literary Award on Sunday at the University of Warsaw Library for his 2025 novel Null, securing both the main jury prize of 100,000 PLN and the readers' choice award.
The eleventh Letras en Sevilla forum opened at Fundación Cajasol on Monday following an eight-month delay caused by political disputes and speaker boycotts.
Fundación Bancaja in Valencia opens a centennial retrospective dedicated to painter Ximo Michavila, assembling 100 works across six decades alongside 80 archival documents.
The Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam has handed over a third-century BC Centuripe pyxis to Sicilian authorities, completing a voluntary restitution process after a 1976 wedding photograph proved the artefact had been looted.
The 66-year-old author secured 83 votes from the anonymous jury at Venice's Palazzo del Cinema on 3 October, edging out Alcide Pierantozzi to claim the literary prize.
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presented its 45-million-euro Agravitas expansion on Friday, adding over 6,000 square meters ahead of its official October 5 reopening.
Under old plaster on a tenement at Puławska 48 in Mokotów, a Fighting Poland anchor was found during facade work. Experts say it may instead date from the 1980s Fighting Solidarity movement.
Art critic and former Italian culture undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi is in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit at Rome's Gemelli Hospital following respiratory failure.
The Spanish Ministry of Culture has awarded the 2026 National Essay Prize to political scientist Aida dos Santos for her book 'Hijas del hormigón', carrying a financial endowment of 30,000 euros.
The Orthodox Church will mark the feast of Athens patron saint Dionysius the Areopagite on 3 October 2026, commemorating the biblical convert alongside Saint Damaris.
The mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer announced on Friday that two paintings taken from the Renoir Museum on 8 September have been found. Reports differ on how many suspects were detained, and the location and condition of the works have not been disclosed by police.
Spanish author Paloma Sánchez-Garnica presented her tenth novel, Un hombre de honor, during a press tour across 1968 settings in New York City.
Spain's Ministry of Culture awarded the 30,000-euro prize on Friday to writer Julio Llamazares for his novel retracing his father's Civil War route.
Author Szczepan Twardoch received the Ambassador of New Europe award on 1 October 2026 in Gdańsk and won the Nike Readers' prize on 2 October for his wartime novel Null.
Director Marianne Elliott brings Edward Albee's 1962 marital drama to the @sohoplace theatre in London, staging a three-hour-and-20-minute production with Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup in the lead roles.