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

New African literature is disrupting the standard lists of Western publishers (making readers happy)

Jeanne-Marie Jackson, The Conversation

· Oct 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm

‘Malgudi’: A poem to remember R K Narayan, creator of India’s most loveable town

Gabriel Rosenstock

· Oct 11, 2017 · 05:30 pm

What does it take for an Indian writer to be published abroad? A literary agent has some answers

Kanishka Gupta

· Oct 07, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Kazuo Ishiguro may have won the Nobel, but he’s by no means done as a writer

Shalmi Barman

· Oct 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

Kazuo Ishiguro has written only eight books (and won the Nobel). This is how they begin

Kazuo Ishiguro

· Oct 06, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Why writing is like music for the world’s newest Nobel laureate for literature, Kazuo Ishiguro

Florence Noiville

· Oct 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

Literature Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s restrained writing holds unfathomable depths of emotion

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 05, 2017 · 08:25 pm

Will Ngugi Wa Thiong'o finally win the Nobel Prize for Literature (or will Murakami make it)?

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 04, 2017 · 08:30 am