Just over a month ago, Aamir Faraz – the son of the late Afra Bukhari and now literary heir – told me on the phone that his mother’s new collection of short stories Sang-e-Siyah (black stone) had just been released. I had wanted to review the book and also meetRead More →
[ad_1] Irish literature is full of stories of disappointing fathers. Think Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt or Philadelphia, Here I Come by Brian Friel! or The Dark by John McGahern, for example. No one would call these portraits of Irish manhood flattering. No one could even call them parents. TheyRead More →
News of the death of famous Punjabi novelist Mohan Bhandari swept through literary circles in Chandigarh in no time on Friday. Sick for a few years, the writer breathed his last in his house in sector 34. He was 84 years old. The recipient of several awards, Bhandari, apart fromRead More →
[ad_1] “Previously my tours were 15-20 cities, but because of Covid it’s like five or six,†a masked Gary Shteyngart told a small but enthusiastic crowd of fans at BookShop West Portal in San Francisco on the 11th. November. “I wish I could do all the schmear. The New York-basedRead More →
[ad_1] Photo by Dan Callister / Shutterstock “It’s a funny deal – starting a book,” novelist Bernard Cornwell told me, when we spoke via Zoom earlier in October. At this point, more than 40 years after starting work on Sharpe’s eagle – the first book he wrote in his seriesRead More →
[ad_1] A play on the personal history of famous Chinese novelist Lu Yao (1949-1992) will be performed at the Shangyin Opera House in Shanghai on November 13-14. “The Story of Writer Lu Yao†is presented by Xi’an Theater in Shaanxi Province. Born in Qingjian County of the province, Lu hadRead More →
[ad_1] Earlier this month, the Loyola Writers at Work series hosted award-winning writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Fajardo-Anstine is an American novelist and short story writer from Denver. She studied English Literature and Chicano Studies at Metropolitan State University and received her MFA from the University of Wyoming. Her award-winning short storyRead More →
[ad_1] Arts Council Pakistan (ACP) Karachi led a session with renowned novelist, critic and short story writer Aamer Hussein, on his latest book “Restless: Instead of an Autobiographyâ€. Speaking about his book, the author Aamer Hussain said that the first part of my book is devoted to my life andRead More →
[ad_1] The last sacraments will be performed on Friday morning and until then the remains will be kept at his home in Srinivas Nagar for the people to pay their last respects. Singamaneni Narayana, a well-known farmer-soul writer from Anantapur, breathed his last on Thursday after a long age-related illness.Read More →
[ad_1] Crafted, honed, condensed and polished to perfection; the best short stories are like a precious jewel, as evocative as any novel. As the $ 5000 Sunday Star-Times short story competition enters its final week, Tracy Watkins talks to some of New Zealand’s best loved writers about the art ofRead More →
[ad_1] English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist EM Forster (Edward Morgan Forster) born in England in 1879, holder of an honorary doctorate from the University of Leiden (1954). Photo: Joop van Bilsen (ANEFO) – Cropped from GaHetNa (Nationaal Artprice.com NL) CC BY 4.0 NEW YORK, NY – SinceRead More →
[ad_1] Through Express news service MALAPPURAM: Novelist and short story writer E. Harikumar, 77, died here Monday evening from various illnesses. He was born to the famous poet Edasseri Govindan Nair and Janaki Amma, who in his early years wrote stories and poems. She even translated Tagore’s Fruit Gathering intoRead More →
[ad_1] You’ve met them: Slightly curved back, eyes glued to the screen, reduced font size, and 14-step model in Jira. History, check. Verification of acceptance criteria. Examples, check. Log files, hmm have yet to perform this query. Mockups, check. Test scenarios, control. Linking all the previously known issues to thisRead More →
[ad_1] Ann Beattie, award-winning short story writer and former Edgar Allan Poe professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia, returns to Grounds this fall as the sixth Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence. Beattie taught at UVA for many years before leaving in 2012 to write full time. HerRead More →
[ad_1] As is the case with most franchises, Star wars has had its ups and downs over the years, and one of the lowest came just a year after the very first Star wars movie, New hope, has been freed. Televised Star Wars Holiday Special has been mocked by critics,Read More →
[ad_1] Following the success of Star wars in 1977, all of pop culture wanted to take advantage of the excitement surrounding space opera, which ultimately led to the start of The Star Wars Vacation Special in 1978. The bizarre variety special brought together unexpected musical acts as Mark Hamill, HarrisonRead More →
[ad_1] Solo: A Star Wars Story co-writer Jonathan Kasdan defends the film’s controversial cameo starring prequel trilogy character Darth Maul. During a long Twitter session to mark the digital release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, co-writer Jonathan Kasdan defended the controversial film cameo of prequel trilogy character Darth Maul.Read More →
[ad_1] Joshua Bodwell discovered André Dubus’ extraordinary prose in his youth, and therein lies a short story. Twenty years ago, when he was only 23, Joshua Bodwell had a meeting that would change his life. With a book. Or, more precisely, with a writer. Two decades later, Bodwell still remembersRead More →
[ad_1] Love or Hate ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, there have been a lot of strong opinions about the film and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ writer Gary Whitta is “disgusted” by Rian Johnson lived. Those who didn’t like the film only spit hatred towards the director, the “StarRead More →
[ad_1] A lecturer, novelist and short story writer from the University of Chichester has been nominated for a major literary award for his latest book. Contemporary fiction professor Alison MacLeod was shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Award for All the Beloved Ghosts (Bloomsbury), a collection of storiesRead More →
[ad_1] “class =” lazy img-responsive “data-src =” https://www.iwmbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mrinal-jha.jpg “width =” 920 “height =” 518 ” alt = “I call Naagin the ‘Wonder Woman’ of India: Mrinal Jha, Story Writer, Naagin 3” /> Acclaimed writer Mrinal Jha put another feather in his cap with his association with Naagin, the top ratedRead More →
[ad_1] Alice Munro in 2002. (AP / Paul Hawthorne) This morning, Alice Munro became the first Canadian author and the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Good timing: Munro also said The New York Times this summer she is finished with writing altogether.) In its announcement, theRead More →