literature
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What readers can expect from Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize-winning Sri Lankan political satire
Lucy Christopher, The Conversation
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Temsula Ao (1945-2022): The Naga writer’s literary legacy covers more than her stories and poems
Chitra Ahanthem
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2022 Booker Prize: Actors and musicians read excerpts from the six shortlisted books
Scroll Staff
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How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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Nobel Prize winner for Literature Annie Ernaux’s true art is the deconstruction of memory
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Annie Ernaux: Opening lines from books by the 2022 Nobel Prize winner for literature
Annie Ernaux
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Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: A reader’s introduction to the six novels
Scroll Staff
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JCB Prize for Literature 2022: Six translations (two from Urdu) feature in the longlist of 10 novels
Scroll Staff
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Dalit Lekhak Sangh turns 25, shows how Dalit literature could be a radical preamble to a New India
Nikhil Pandhi
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How 19th-century American literature planted sensationalism in conversations about abortions
Margaret Jay Jessee, The Conversation
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What do William Shakespeare’s plays tell us about war?
Robert White, The Conversation
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Was writer F Scott Fitzgerald an early appropriator – of his wife Zelda’s story ideas?
Shashi Deshpande
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Watch: Author Zadie Smith sings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at a public reading of her novels
Scroll Staff
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Steampunk: How this subgenre of science fiction challenges the beliefs of civilisational progress
Sumit Bardhan
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How should Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy be read during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
Ani Kokobobo, The Conversation
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What classic literature says about the challenges of refugees fleeing persecution
Robert F Barsky, The Conversation
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If you think you know Gujarat, this anthology of stories expands and confuses your understanding
Gayathri Sankar
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Booker Prize International 2022: Read the opening lines of the 13 longlisted books
Scroll
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This book examines writings across the world for relationships between power and pain
Prasanta Chakravarty
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How the Mahabharata rules the national imagination through a mix of fact and fantasy
Urmi Chanda