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Literary tribute

  • ‘Writing is a pleasure, an obsession’: A publisher’s tribute to MT Vasudevan Nair

    ‘Writing is a pleasure, an obsession’: A publisher’s tribute to MT Vasudevan Nair

    Mini Krishnan
    · Jan 19, 2025 · 01:30 pm
  • Tribute: In David Lodge’s (1935-2025) writings, the fictions of Derrida and spectres of Marx

    Tribute: In David Lodge’s (1935-2025) writings, the fictions of Derrida and spectres of Marx

    Saikat Majumdar
    · Jan 11, 2025 · 03:30 pm
  • Edna O’Brien (1930-2024): A sensuous, sublime writer who wrote about women longing to escape boredom

    Edna O’Brien (1930-2024): A sensuous, sublime writer who wrote about women longing to escape boredom

    Chandrahas Choudhury
    · Aug 03, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Tribute: We know Paul Auster’s novels, but there was a Jewish otherness in his persona as a poet

    Tribute: We know Paul Auster’s novels, but there was a Jewish otherness in his persona as a poet

    Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
    · May 05, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Remembering Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé with a reading list of her novels

    Remembering Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé with a reading list of her novels

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 03, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • A master of paradox: Memories and impressions of reading Milan Kundera in the 1990s

    A master of paradox: Memories and impressions of reading Milan Kundera in the 1990s

    Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
    · Jul 15, 2023 · 11:30 am
  • Remembering Gnani Sankaran (1954-2018): Playwright, journalist, and tireless fighter for justice

    Remembering Gnani Sankaran (1954-2018): Playwright, journalist, and tireless fighter for justice

    K Chandru
    · Jan 20, 2018 · 10:30 am
  • Reading Lakshmi Holmström (1935–2016), whose translations took Tamil literature to world readers

    Reading Lakshmi Holmström (1935–2016), whose translations took Tamil literature to world readers

    R Sivapriya
    · May 10, 2016 · 08:30 am