Literature
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‘Anxiety of coping’: How a new anthology of Odia short stories in English translation was born
KK Mohapatra
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DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels
Scroll Staff
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This non-fiction literary prize shortlist is the one where every book must be read
Scroll Staff
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Watch: A seemingly endless queue for Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s autograph in Krakow
Scroll Staff
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Adda: What the institution of the convivial community chat over ‘cha’ means for Bengali literature
Faisal Mahmud
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This novel about a thrilling fight between two boxers in India is based on a real-life person
Timeri N Murari
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Is there a message in the choice of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize?
Bhaskar Kumar
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Will climate fiction change 21st century literature the way that modernism did in the 20th century?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Why the Booker panel ought to have broken the tie (and perhaps chosen only Bernardine Evaristo)
Clare Hutton, The Conversation
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Dystopia or utopia? Politics or aesthetics? What are the challenges of writing climate fiction?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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This work of auto-fiction is funny, tender, and shattering. Blame the writer, Ocean Vuong
Suhasini Patni
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What each of the novels on the JCB Prize for Literature 2019 shortlist is worth reading for
Urvashi Bahuguna
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If you haven’t read Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke, start with their opening lines
Scroll Staff
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke
Scroll Staff
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Times Litfest Mumbai cancelled because ‘seriously floundering economy’ has kept sponsors away
Scroll Staff
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JCB Prize 2019 shortlist: An acknowledgement that Indian fiction is now raw, brutal and angry
Scroll Staff
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Justin Trudeau’s blackface: How ‘The Arabian Nights’ went from exotic tales to Muslim stereotypes
Katherine Bullock, The Conversation
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Found in translation: How 57 different languages have interpreted Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’
Matthew Reynolds, The Conversation
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The DSC Prize for Literature longlist reaffirms the growing strength of diversity (and debuts)
Scroll Staff
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Opinion: By failing to celebrate the work of its living authors, Pakistan is failing all of society
Asif Farrukhi