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The page proofs of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book – complete with the author’s handwritten poems – have been allocated to Cambridge University Library...
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When Canadian writer Durga Chew-Bose was asked to pen a new film adaptation of Francoise Sagan’s hit 1954 coming-of-age novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” she jumped...
Entertainment
A new play criticising Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's views on transgender issues comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
World
Tributes poured in on Sunday for Edna O’Brien, the radical Irish writer whose groundbreaking first novel “The Country Girls” was burned and banned in...
World
Canadian writer Alice Munro’s daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed...
World
Albanians mourned Ismail Kadare, their “greatest cultural monument”, Monday after the acclaimed novelist — tipped several times for the Nobel literature prize — died...
World
Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare — an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize — died Monday of a heart attack aged 88, his...
World
Novelist Ismail Kadare — who has died aged 88 — used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania’s paranoid communist dictator Enver...
Tech & Science
The world’s favourite French misanthrope writer Michel Houellebecq is too controversial for the world’s new AI tools, which find his views so offensive that...
World
When Hong Kong author Kay So left her home city in 2020, she had in her luggage two short stories she had written about...