The regional award winners of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize head for the Sydney Writers' Festival.

Mar 23, 2011 - Keith Lawrence

The 2011 shortlist for the hotly contested Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the year was announced on Friday, 18th February.

Feb 18, 2011 - Susan Osborne

The five books shortlisted for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize have been announced in Hong Kong.

Feb 16, 2011 - Cate Allan

The debut novel Tinkers by Paul Harding won this year's Pulitzer Prize, earned, perhaps, by the poignance of the story and poetry of the author's prose.

Aug 6, 2010 - Leah Abramovitz

West Virginia University's Sarah Einstein, a creative nonfiction M.F.A. candidate who recently won a Pushcart Prize, writes of homelessness, friendship.

Jul 19, 2010 - Kori Frazier

The Man Booker Prize is awarded each October for the best original novel written in English by a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic or Ireland

Feb 20, 2007 - Sandy Mitchell

Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess won the 2011 Nobel prize in physics for discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Oct 14, 2011 - Paul A. Heckert

Alfred Kastler won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing optical techniques to study Hertzian resonances in atoms.

Feb 11, 2011 - Paul A. Heckert

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman shared the 1965 physics Nobel Prize for theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics.

Jan 31, 2011 - Paul A. Heckert

Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and Hans Jensen won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to understanding nuclear physics.

Oct 15, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Andre K. Geim and Konstantin S. Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of a new form of carbon, graphene.

Oct 5, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in fiber optic cables and charged coupled devices, CCDs.

Oct 3, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Lev Landau won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his theoretical work on superfluid states of liquid helium.

Sep 24, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Robert Hofstader and Rudolf Mössbauer shared the 1961 physics Nobel Prize for work on electron scattering in nuclei and discovering the Mössbauer effect.

Sep 20, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Donald A. Glaser won the 1960 physics Nobel Prize for inventing the bubble chamber, which led to discoveries in nuclear and high energy particle physics.

Sep 6, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain won the 1959 Nobel physics prize for discovering the antiproton.

Aug 30, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

P.A. Cherenkov, I.M. Frank, and I.Y. Tamm were the 1958 Physics Nobel laureates for discovering and interpreting Cherenkov radiation.

Aug 17, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

Chen NingYang and Tsung-Dao Lee were the 1957 Physics Nobel laureates for predicting parity violations in beta decay and other weak interactions.

Aug 13, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert

William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter H. Brattain won the 1956 Physics Nobel Prize for their discovery of the transistor.

Aug 11, 2010 - Paul A. Heckert