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

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  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

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  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…

• TM Krishna presents Narayana Guru’s poetry set in Carnatic music, underlining the reformer’s prevailing relevance

  November 3, 2019 Read More...

  Source: firstpost.com   Carnatic vocalist and social commentator TM Krishna will be performing to the works of the 20th-century philosopher-poet-saint and social reformer from Kerala, Narayana Guru. Guru was born in…

• The Life of Thomas Edison

  November 2, 2019 Read More...

  Source: www.nytimes.com The acclaimed biographer Edmund Morris died earlier this year, at 78, before he could see the publication of his new book, “Edison,” about the brilliant and prolific inventor. David Oshinsky,…

• India, Germany ink deal on culture, literature

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  Source: www.outlookindia.com Following a delegation-level meeting between Indo-German culture ministers on Friday, India and Germany have agreed to cooperate between select museums, and explore the possibility of translating literature classics of…

• Tata literature festival turns 10

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  Source: www.newkerala.com   Counted among the oldest homegrown literature festivals of India, Tata Literature Live, which will host its tenth edition in Mumbai this month, has a stellar line-up of…

• August 29, 2018 Read More...