Shortlists for the Tata Literature Live! Awards announced

Scroll Staff

· Nov 10, 2017 · 05:37 pm

With just 11 stories this collection goes to the core of Tamil writer Jayakanthan’s fiction

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Nov 05, 2017 · 06:30 pm

How Mughal history inspired an American professor to weave a fantasy world that rivals Tolkien’s

Blake Smith

· Nov 05, 2017 · 03:30 pm

The Jnanpith award celebrates Hindi writer Krishna Sobti’s exuberance as well as resistance

Ashutosh Bhardwaj

· Nov 05, 2017 · 08:30 am

Philip Pullman fans have no choice but to read his new novel (and new readers can start here)

Achala Upendran

· Nov 04, 2017 · 08:30 am

Giving a voice to the oppressed: Why Tamil writer Melanmai Ponnusamy (1951-2017) remained a Leftist

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Nov 02, 2017 · 08:30 am

Both life and literature were unconventional for Malayalam writer Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940-2017)

Anand Kochukudy

· Oct 29, 2017 · 06:00 am

As the debate over naming and shaming sexual harassers continues, ‘Disgrace’ is the book to read

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 28, 2017 · 06:30 pm

What is untranslatable? Ten translators from Indian languages list their candidates

Shashank Bhargava

· Oct 28, 2017 · 05:30 pm

This novel locates ‘King Lear’ in an Indian business empire. Dynasties, corruption and greed explode

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 28, 2017 · 07:00 am

A ritual of rooftop meetings led to Perumal Murugan’s anthology of Tamil writing on caste

Perumal Murugan

· Oct 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Ruskin Bond and Anees Salim are among the winners of this year’s Atta Galatta-BLF Book Prize

Scroll Staff

· Oct 24, 2017 · 08:00 am

How the shadow of the battle of Karbala has shaped Urdu literature

Asif Farrukhi

· Oct 23, 2017 · 10:30 pm

British literature is richly tangled with other cultures. Why is it sold as largely white writing?

Erica Lombard, The Conversation Elleke Boehmer, The Conversation

· Oct 22, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Two Man Bookers in a row: Why the British shouldn’t be sore at American literary success

Andrew Dix, The Conversation

· Oct 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Five novels from America you must read (because they’re shortlisted for the US National Book Award)

Anu Kumar

· Oct 21, 2017 · 11:00 am

For the love of books: India’s ‘Invisible Libraries’ named as a finalist for the Jan Michalski Prize

Scroll Staff

· Oct 20, 2017 · 05:07 pm

Watch: George Saunders isn’t merely the Man Booker Prize winner. He is also a literary powerhouse

Scroll Staff

· Oct 18, 2017 · 05:00 pm

The serendipity of reading ‘Autumn’ in autumn makes up for Ali Smith’s not winning the Man Booker

Pia Ghosh-Roy

· Oct 18, 2017 · 01:39 pm

The Booker Prize is supposed to make a novel famous. How many of these six winners do you remember?

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 17, 2017 · 08:30 am