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• Madhuri Vijay bags Crossword Book Award for novel on Kashmir

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  Source : Hindustan Times The prestigious award in the jury category is the third major literary prize that the Bengaluru-born, US-based writer has won for her book ‘The Far Field’…

• A glorious tradition

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  Source : The Hindu So long as people remain suppressed and oppressed, poets like Faiz Ahmed ‘Faiz’ will continue to take their side     Faiz Ahmed ‘Faiz’, a communist…

• It is time for an introspection on the purpose of the IFFK: Adoor Gopalakrishnan

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  Source: timesindia.indiatimes.com Many filmmakers across the country have expressed their disappointment at the selection of films for the 24th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) and the…

• Writer Shanta Gokhale Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at Tata Literature Live

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  Source: thewire.in Renowned writer and playwright Shanta Gokhale was on Sunday presented the lifetime achievement award at Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest here for her work, which has made…

• Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938-2019): ‘She represented blend of humour and original vision’

  November 9, 2019 Read More...

  Source : The Indian Express Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer passed away in her Hindustan Road residence in Kolkata. In her last column published on November 3 in a Bengali magazine,…

• A New Book From the Creator of ‘Wonder’ Tells a Holocaust Story

  November 8, 2019 Read More...

  Source: The New York Times What kind of literature do we owe our young readers? Should it aspire to artfulness, or is that a luxury when there are American educators…

• Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

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  Source: Literary Hub David Ulin Reflects on Death, Science Fi and Scenes From La Jetée. This past summer, I stumbled across a link on social media to Chris Marker’s 1962 science…

• Legendary Bengali writer, academician Nabaneeta Dev Sen dies at 81

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  Source: Hindustan Times Nabaneeta Dev Sen was honoured with numerous awards, including the Sahitya Academy Award in 1999 and Padmashree in 2000. Legendary Bengali writer, poet and academician Nabaneeta Dev Sen…

• Nabaneeta Deb Sen: Wit, brilliance, guts shaped literary ouvre

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  Source: New Kerala.com Kolkata, Nov 8 : Nabaneeta Dev Sen once said she took up the pen because there was no escape for her as “everybody who came to our…

• Debut writers dominate DSC Prize shortlist

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  Source : The Hindu   It carries a cash prize of $25,000   First-time authors dominated the shortlist of this year’s DSC Prize for South Asian Literature that was announced…

• Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, RK Narayan, Vikram Seth’s books feature in BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’

  November 7, 2019 Read More...

  Source : The Indian Express The list has been divided into 10 categories — identity, love, sex and romance, adventure, life, death and other worlds, politics, power and protest, class…

• World is becoming increasingly hostile to fiction: JCB Prize winner

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  Source : The Hindu     Author Madhuri Vijay on Saturday was crowned the winner of this year’s JCB Prize for Literature “Fiction is a strange and imperfect medium but…

• Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86

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  Source : Hindustan Times Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty,…

• Does literature shape ideology or vice-versa?

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  Source: India Today   In the thought-provoking session Vichardhara Ka Sahitya (Literature of Ideology) on the second day of Sahitya Aaj Tak, the participants included author and well-known critic Sudhish…

• No more talks, discussions, book launches at Nehru Memorial?

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  Source: Outlook   New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Even as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) is in the news after the NMML Society was re-constituted with the ousting…

• World is becoming increasingly hostile to fiction: JCB Prize winner

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  Source: The Hindu “Fiction is a strange and imperfect medium but allows for the full range of nuanced complexity that the world deserves”, said author Madhuri Vijay, who has set…

• August 29, 2018 Read More...