Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ wins $25,000-DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019

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· Dec 17, 2019 · 01:11 am

‘I have no contempt for the ordinary’: Lucy Ellmann, author of a 430,000-word, 1034-page novel

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· Dec 14, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Don’t act as if you’re all alone’: 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Peter Handke’s lecture

Peter Handke

· Dec 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Fiction has lost the readers’ trust’: 2018 Literature Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s lecture

Olga Tokarczuk

· Dec 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

A new book says the KGB may have killed Albert Camus. His novel ‘The Stranger’ lives on

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· Dec 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon

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· Dec 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Poet Akkitham’s Jnanpith award recognises an epic literary journey out of tradition into modernity

Santosh Alex

· Dec 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges

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· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

Writer George Eliot has valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers

Helen Kingstone, The Conversation

· Nov 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends

Suhasini Patni

· Nov 24, 2019 · 08:30 am

This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan

Intizar Husain

· Nov 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How does a publishing company persuade people in the 21st century to keep reading the classics?

Hattie Adam-Smith

· Nov 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Anxiety of coping’: How a new anthology of Odia short stories in English translation was born

KK Mohapatra

· Nov 15, 2019 · 07:30 am

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels

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· Nov 07, 2019 · 10:42 am

This non-fiction literary prize shortlist is the one where every book must be read

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· Nov 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

Watch: A seemingly endless queue for Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s autograph in Krakow

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· Oct 28, 2019 · 10:08 pm

Adda: What the institution of the convivial community chat over ‘cha’ means for Bengali literature

Faisal Mahmud

· Oct 26, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This novel about a thrilling fight between two boxers in India is based on a real-life person

Timeri N Murari

· Oct 23, 2019 · 07:30 am

Is there a message in the choice of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize?

Bhaskar Kumar

· Oct 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Will climate fiction change 21st century literature the way that modernism did in the 20th century?

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Oct 20, 2019 · 12:30 pm