Literature

Since Kazi Nazrul Islam arrived in Bangladesh on May 24, 1972, the government has formally acknowledged him as the country’s national poet. “In accordance with the proposal approved at the December meeting of the Advisory Council,...

On November 26, a seven-day book expo will open on the Divisional Commissioner’s office in Khulna city. The government has decided to hold divisional level book fairs throughout the nation in an effort to encourage the...

Samantha Harvey, a British author, won the coveted Booker Prize on Tuesday for her science fiction book that chronicles the 24-hour orbit of six astronauts around the Earth. Harvey’s “Orbital” is set aboard the International Space...

Speakers at a discussion here today lauded Mahbub Morshed’s  writing style saying there are many elements and techniques in his educative writings from which new writers can take lesson. Taking part in the discussion on his...

Major South Korean bookshops ran out of author Han Kang’s books on Friday, as the author’s historic Nobel Prize win sent local publishers’ stock prices through the roof. Han, a writer of short stories and novels,...

Since it was established in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has primarily recognized writers from the West, but this year, analysts predict that the Swedish Academy will cast its gaze farther afield. There is no...

The winners of the International Booker Prize for the book “Kairos” were announced on Tuesday, including translator Michael Hofmann and writer Jenny Erpenbeck from Germany. The book, which was first published in German, describes a young...

British-American author Salman Rushdie releases his memoir “Knife” on Tuesday, recounting the harrowing experience of being stabbed at a public event in 2022 and how he overcame the near-fatal ordeal. Rushdie lost sight in one eye...

The Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, one of the leaders of a young generation of authors in Gaza who chose to write in English to tell their stories, was killed in an Israeli strike, his friends said...

At an event in London on Sunday, the 2023 laureate of the coveted honor will be named, while Britain’s Booker honor for Fiction will crown a first-time winner. This year’s six finalists—two Canadians, two Irish, one...