literature
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Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ wins $25,000-DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019
Scroll Staff
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‘I have no contempt for the ordinary’: Lucy Ellmann, author of a 430,000-word, 1034-page novel
Shireen Quadri
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‘Don’t act as if you’re all alone’: 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Peter Handke’s lecture
Peter Handke
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‘Fiction has lost the readers’ trust’: 2018 Literature Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s lecture
Olga Tokarczuk
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A new book says the KGB may have killed Albert Camus. His novel ‘The Stranger’ lives on
Yuvraj Nathani
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Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon
Doseline Kiguru, The Conversation
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Poet Akkitham’s Jnanpith award recognises an epic literary journey out of tradition into modernity
Santosh Alex
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‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges
Rimi
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Writer George Eliot has valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers
Helen Kingstone, The Conversation
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This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends
Suhasini Patni
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This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan
Intizar Husain
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How does a publishing company persuade people in the 21st century to keep reading the classics?
Hattie Adam-Smith
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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