‘The world of literature is mourning’: How Mario Vargas Llosa brought Spanish to splendour
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Latin American Boom: 5 writers who took the continent’s literature to the world | Books and Literature News
Latin American literature in the 1960s was inextricable from its politics. After lawyer-turned-revolutionary Fidel Castro defeated Cuba’s military…
Peruvian Nobel literature prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa dies
Nobel-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, whose vivid novels explored Latin American despotism, corruption and fanaticism and who…
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89
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Santosh K Singh’s The Deras: Culture, Diversity and Politics recovers the syncretic, if male-dominated, character of these sacred spaces in Punjab | Books and Literature News
Literary critic Roland Barthes, in his book Mythologies, underlines how a sign can be stripped of its original…
Tiny libraries giving Yorkdale-Glen Park residents access to literature
In Yorkdale-Glen Park, the closest public library is a 20-minute bus ride away. Although a Toronto Public Library…
Young Craftsman Consults Ancient Literature and Resurrects This ‘Extinct’ Musical Instrument – (LISTEN)
Tharun Sekar with Yazh behind him – credit: Uru Instruments From India comes the incredible story of a…
Young Craftsman Consults Ancient Literature and Resurrects This ‘Extinct’ Musical Instrument – (LISTEN)
Tharun Sekar with Yazh behind him – credit: Uru Instruments From India comes the incredible story of a…
JLF 2025: ‘India has squandered political goodwill on the Palestine issue’: Pankaj Mishra | Books and Literature News
India has today “squandered the goodwill” earnt by Jawaharlal Nehru and successive Indian governments under the Indian National…
Britain’s Ex PM Rishi Sunak Arrives In Jaipur, To Attend Literature Festival
Jaipur: Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Jaipur on Friday to attend the city’s annual literary…
Lawyer-author Rohin Bhatt’s book offers an eyewitness account of the fight for queer marriage rights in India | Books and Literature News
For many, the opportunity to watch courtroom proceedings as part of the marriage equality case was a unique…
Murder mysteries with spooky twists: NSG ex-chief M A Ganapathy’s book treads a road less travelled | India News
A woman who disappeared into the woods with a non-existent man, a long-dead barber who held a lamp…
What is the unsettling poem in the ’28 Years Later’ trailer?
Ahead of the June 2025 release of the long-awaited third part in the ’28 Days Later’ film series,…
Upmanyu Chatterjee wins JCB Prize for Literature 2024 for Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life
Upamanyu Chatterjee, celebrated for his wry humour, has won the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature for his novel…
A Woman Won South Korea’s First Literature Nobel. That Says a Lot.
While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents…