Literature
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Long before fairies were considered cute, they used to drink blood and kidnap children
Sam George, The Conversation
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Carmen Mola episode: What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters
Camilla Nelson, The Conversation Kerrie Davis, The Conversation
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On World Mental Health Day, a reminder of how literature can help understand others (and yourself)
Anupama Raju
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Why Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature is important
Bhakti Shringarpure
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Reading Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: First lines from seven novels
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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‘Words must remain without borders’: Naveen Kishore accepting prize for promoting world literature
Naveen Kishore
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JCB Prize shortlist 2021: VJ James, Daribha Lyndem, Shabir Ahmad Mir, M Mukundan, Lindsay Pereira
Scroll Staff
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After 700 years, women from Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ are finally getting their due through Wikipedia
Laura Ingallinella, The Conversation
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What the JCB Prize for Literature longlist reveals, and what it leaves out, about India today
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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How translators achieve harmony, and why this is not a threat to the writers they translate
Suchitra Ramachandran
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‘Observe, analyse, reinterpret’: The aim of a new collection of folk tales and legends from India
Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai
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Booker Prize longlist 2021: Opening lines of the 13 novels
Scroll Staff
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On top of the world: How writers seek solace in hill station literature
Rajni George
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Finally! In her new book of essays, Joan Didion tells us how she became a writer
Yamini Krishnan
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Interview: Does a literary jury need to think differently in the year of a pandemic?
Kanishka Gupta
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With the deaths of its pillars Anil Dharker and Shashi Baliga, what lies ahead for Tata Litlive?
Selina Sheth
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A reader’s guide to the six books shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2021
Suhasini Patni
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Homen Borgohain (1932-2021): Remembering the Assamese writer with his greatest novel, ‘Matsyagandha’
Homen Borgohain
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After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again?
Dipika Mukherjee