Literature

The book launching ceremony of a new book Muktijuddher Chikishsha Itihas, authored jointly by renowned fiction writer and medical anthropologist Shahaduz Zaman and public health expert Dr. Khairul Islam, and published by Prothoma Prokashon, was held...

Shurjo’s Clan, the first book by Bangladeshi-American author Iffat Nawaz, has been published by Penguin Random House India. This literary fiction blends magic realism with historical accuracy and tells the coming-of-age tale of a girl growing...

Tom Hanks, a seasoned Hollywood actor, is getting ready to publish his first book. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, written by the two-time Oscar winner, is scheduled to be released on May 9,...

The Nobel Literature Prize was given to French novelist Annie Ernaux on Thursday. Annie Ernaux is renowned for her deceptively straightforward books that draw on personal experience of class and gender. The committee cited Ernaux, 82,...

Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009’s Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and...

The Television Academy revealed on Saturday that Barack Obama, a relative unknown in Hollywood, had won an Emmy for narrating his Netflix documentary series “Our Great National Parks.” The former US president only needs an Oscar...

David Trimble, the former first minister of Northern Ireland and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, passed away on Monday at the age of 77. After the pair signed the momentous agreement in 1998, Trimble, a...

Humayun Ahmed was one of the writers who helped Bengali literature become ingrained in daily life and built up a sizable readership in Bangladesh. Today is his passing day. Ten years have passed, yet the void...

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist best known for “Interview with the Vampire,” died at the age of 80 on Saturday, according to her family. “I sat alongside her hospital bed in admiration of her accomplishments and...

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose work touches on colonialism and refugee life, on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said. Gurnah, who grew born on the island of Zanzibar but fled to England...