Literature

News 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...

News 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...

News 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...

News 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...

News 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...

News 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...

News 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...

News 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...

News Hour: After whittling down a pile of 155 novels, the judges of the Man Booker Prize are set to unveil this year’s winner of a 50,000 sterling ($61,200) award that can have a “seismic” impact...

News Hour: The London home of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and other landmarks linked to gay figures have been awarded special status, the UK’s leading heritage body said, in a tribute to the often overlooked contribution...