It's no surprise literary fiction novels make great movies. What surprises me is the literary fiction authors themselves (or their inspiration) also make good movies. Here are three novelists and three movies depicting them

Creative talent usually comes with more than one outlet. In the case of Laura Elise Taylor, she divides her time between writing in the winter and photography during "wedding season". This Canadian author slash photographer was born

Nellcott Is My Darling is Golda´s second book and a finalist for the 2005 Governor General´s Literary Award for fiction. Her first was a collection of short stories titled Darkness

In Havana, Cuba during 1982 high school students were required to put in time in the Tobacco fields as part of their learning and as service to the communist regime. A Girl Like Che Guevara follows the life of Lourdes Torres

Sweetness in the Belly was recently short listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction. This is one of Canada´s prestigious literary prizes and although Camilla did not take home the trophy

If you have one passion in life, you´re lucky. If you have two you must be blessed. Besides being a full-time writer Joyce Hackett is also a community activist with "emphasis on the active".

Her first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence garnered the Writer´s Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, the City of Toronto Book Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. With two novels published and an anthology she compiled and edited, it´s obvious

Marsha Mehran was born in Tehran (an Iran province), grew up in Argentina and currently divides her time between New York and Ireland. Her first release, Pomegranate Soup,

Discouraged from following her artistic talent and desires at an early age, Carrie Kabak was educated as a teacher. It wasn't until two years ago she gave in and followed

Last night at an awards dinner in Guildhall, London Banville was named the winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sea. The Dublin author was shortlisted in 1989.