Literature
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Carrie Fisher memoir returns to U.S. best-sellers list
Jan 6, 2017News Hour: Carrie Fisher’s memoir “The Princess Diarist,” about her time making the 1977 “Star Wars” movie, climbed back into the U.S. best-sellers chart on Thursday after the death of the actress last week following a... -
Swapna Das’s “A String of Pearls”: Reflection of nature, life and personalities
Jan 3, 2017News Hour: Swapna Das’ debut book “A String of Pearls” was published in July 2016 in the UK. The book is a collection of eleven delightful short stories spanning many continents. In her first book “A... -
Laureates to receive Nobels, except Bob Dylan
Dec 11, 2016News Hour In the absence of rock icon Bob Dylan, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will be the star of Saturday’s Nobel ceremonies when he receives his Peace Prize in Oslo, crowning an achievement that came... -
Patti Smith and a speech by proxy to fill Dylan void at Nobels
Dec 6, 2016News Hour: Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will provide a speech and fellow American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will perform one of his best-known songs in his absence during Stockholm’s prize celebrations, the awards body said on... -
Tagore’s collected works published in Chinese
Dec 4, 2016News Hour: China has recently published the collected works of the Bengali Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Chinese, according to BSS. It is a 33 volume labor of love by Chinese-Bengali experts in collaboration with the... -
Booker finalist Thien wins top Canada fiction prize
Nov 9, 2016News Hour: Man Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien on Monday won Canada’s Giller Prize, the country’s richest fiction award, for “Do Not Say We Have Nothing”, about a young woman’s flight from China after the Tiananmen... -
Shazia Omar’s “Dark Diamond” launched at a sparkling event
Oct 30, 2016News Hour: Bloomsbury India announced at Red Shift Book Cafe recently, Shazia Omar’s latest publication, Dark Diamond, a fast-paced, historical adventure story, set in 1685 Bengal. Writer and historian William Dalrymple described the book as “A... -
The eight-year-old who gave publisher Bloomsbury Pottermania
Oct 29, 2016News Hour: Alice Newton was just 8 years old when she gave Harry Potter his big break. Her publisher father asked her to read the first book in J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts series, Harry Potter and the... -
Paul Beatty’s race satire wins Man Booker Prize
Oct 27, 2016News Hour: Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize, for “The Sellout”, a biting satire on race relations in the United States. The narrator of... -
Big Data to show Marlowe co-wrote three Shakespeare plays
Oct 26, 2016News Hour: A new edition of William Shakespeare’s complete works will name Christopher Marlowe as co-author of three plays, shedding new light on the links between the two great playwrights after centuries of speculation and conspiracy...
