Lawrence Hill Takes Commonwealth Prize Canadian Lawrence Hill’s THE BOOK OF NEGROES, about a West African girl sold into slavery in 18th-century South Carolina who eventually returns home, won the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Tahmima Anam of Bangladesh won the Best First Book prize for A GOLDEN AGE. Bloomberg Weinstein Announces Alchemist Film Project Harvey Weinstein announced at Cannes that he will personally produce a film version of Paulo Coelho’s bestselling THE ALCHEMIST. The project had languished at Warner Bros. for years, with Laurence Fishburne eventually acquiring the rights along with A-Mark Entertainment. They are thought to have sold rights […]