Anthea Bell, a grande dame of literary translation, died today age 82. She was particularly known for her translations of Franz Kafka's...

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, French writer & director and Holocaust survivor, died yesterday aged 90. Marceline Rozenberg was born in Epinal...

We were very sorry to hear that Michel Déon (1919-2016), French author and "immortal" writer since he joined the ranks of the Académie...

Michel Butor passed away on Wednesday 24 August, aged 89. The Book Office would like to pay tribute to one of the great writers of...

Yves Bonnefoy was born on the 24th of June 1923. He died aged 93 years old, on the 1st of July 2016. He was a poet, an art critic and...