Lisa Moore wins regional Commonwealth Prize: See CBC.ca
“Canadian writer Lisa Moore’s debut novel Alligator has been named best book for the Caribbean and Canada region, making it a finalist for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez gives up the pen–retired: See Times Online
Aside from One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold are two of my favourite Marquez novels.