PHILADELPHIA CREAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fresh off the press, the collection of popular Polish author Romuald Roman Aldek‘Bestiary features twenty-one short stories about life in socialist Poland and how an immigrant family embraces the American dream with all its imperfections. Romuald Roman grew up under an incomprehensible Polish bureaucracy, but lived four decadesRead More →

Brutal reality stopped internationally acclaimed Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov from writing fiction, so he instead tells the story of the Russian invasion to the world. The 61-year-old, famous for his Russian-language satirical novel “Death and the Penguin,” has become something of a traveling cultural spokesperson for Ukraine’s war effort. HerRead More →

Hilary Mantel, the British author of the best-selling ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy and the first woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize twice, has died. She was 70, her publisher and agent announced Friday. Mantel, who was considered one of the greatest English-language novelists of this century, died “suddenly but peacefully”Read More →

THE QUESTION: In Islam, what is a fatwa? Why the demand to kill the novelist Salman Rushdie? THE RELIGIOUS GUY’S RESPONSE: In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s theocratic leader, ordered the “immediate” assassination of novelist Salman Rushdie because of his novel “The Satanic Verses”. Remarkably, this official fatwa imposed theRead More →

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of prominent novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he had only “read like two pages” of satanic verses, Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all MuslimsRead More →

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of famed novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he only had “read like two pages” of satanic verses, Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all MuslimsRead More →

(MENAFN – The Conversation) Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he had ‘only read two pages’ of ‘The Satanic Verses’, Rushdie’s 1988 novel which caused anger fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced aRead More →

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of famed novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he only had “read like two pages” of “satanic versesRushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims toRead More →

April Davila Working in a library, in addition to providing the obvious benefit of easy access to books, also gives budding authors an idea of ​​what people are reading. —April Davila LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, August 25, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Award-winning novelist April Dàvila explains the fundamentals of reading whenRead More →

Ddocumentaries about acclaimed authors can often be stereotyped; this honest and engaging study makes a refreshing difference. Robert B Weide, who directed many episodes of the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as documentaries on the Marx brothers and Woody Allen and wrote the little-seen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’sRead More →

Telesforo Sugdan Sungkit Jr. at a student conference in 2014. Photo from TS Sungkit Jr’s Facebook page. MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/July 19) – Novelist and poet Higaonon Telesforo Sugdan Sungkit Jr. died on Tuesday morning. Ramel S. Sungkit, an older brother, confirmed the information Tuesday noon. He said his brother diedRead More →

Photos courtesy of Walter Pearce. “The novelist: a novel is the first novel by Jordan Castro. This nine-word opening sentence—self-aware, direct, and containing the word novel three times—seems like the fitting introduction to a conversation about this self-fiction book about self-fiction. Castro, influenced by Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine and ThomasRead More →

Australian author John Hughes has apologized for unintentionally plagiarizing parts of a Nobel laureate’s work after a Guardian Australia investigation found multiple similarities and identical instances in his new novel, The Dogs, which has been nominated for Australia’s most prestigious literary award. Nearly 60 similarities and identical phrases were foundRead More →

Barbadian George Lamming talks about his world famous novel, iIn The Castle of My Skin.’ Screenshot taken from a YouTube video Posted by NCF Barbados. Renowned Barbadian novelist George Lamming passed away on Saturday, June 4, at the age of 94. He will be granted official funeral on his nativeRead More →

Jordan CastroNovelist (Soft Skull, 2022) For any computer user, the opening phrase of Jordan Castro’s compact, brilliant and very funny first novel Novelist is decidedly accurate and not a little weird: “I opened my laptop, still waiting for my morning tea to steep, and tried to type in my passwordRead More →

(JTA) — For many young Jews, criticizing Israel is itself a form of attachment. They may not consider themselves responsible to the Jewish state, but they certainly feel responsible to the world. So do some Jewish writers, including Michael Chabon and his wife, Israeli-born novelist Ayelet Waldman, who together editedRead More →

The trial of an Oregon romance novelist accused of shooting her husband took a surprising turn this week when a prosecutor suggested Nancy Crampton Brophy accidentally confessed to the shooting with a slip. Crampton Brophy allegedly described the shooting to another inmate she lived with, Multnomah County Senior Assistant DistrictRead More →

Staff report Acclaimed author Michelle Richmond, a Mobile native whose recent novel “The Wonder Test” has been hailed as a “gripping thriller” and a witty satire of “high-stakes education,” will receive the Hall-Waters Prize from the Troy University on April 14. Richmond will discuss the evolution of her career fromRead More →

In the UK, the University of Stirling has removed acclaimed English novelist Jane Austen from English literature in a bid to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, UK media reported. According to reports, the University of Stirling’s English Literature program has added award-winning writer Toni Morrison in place of Austen, who wrote popularRead More →

Acclaimed author Michelle Richmond, originally from Mobile, Alabama, whose recent novel The Test of Wonders has been hailed as a “gripping thriller” and witty satire of “high-stakes education,” will receive the Hall-Waters Prize from the University of Troy on April 14. Richmond will discuss the evolution of his career sinceRead More →

The truth is probably more that Vargas Llosa has always been a writer who allows himself enormous latitude and license, and that he has been able to take work that tends to sound trashy and turn it into a miracle of invention. What has sometimes gone wrong with his fiction,Read More →

In the third novel by Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, Ways to get homehe coined the phrase “literature of los hijos” or “children’s literature”, which has come to refer to works dealing with the trauma of growing up under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In a recent email conversation, longtime ZambraRead More →