Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award.

Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 International Dublin Literary Award for the novel "Lost Children Archive". The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two child…

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Pablo Picasso's work sells for $. 103.4 mn.

A painting by Pablo Picasso has sold for more than $100m - marking the fifth work by the Spanish artist to sell for a nine-figure sum. Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) sold for $103.4m (£73.5m) at Christie's auction house in New York. That figure comprises $90…

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Richard Osman wins author of the year after hit debut novel.

Richard Osman has been crowned author of the year at the British Book Awards after the runaway success of his debut novel The Thursday Murder Club. Pointless star Osman said his win for his story of elderly amateur sleuths was an "absolute dream come true". Also tri…

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Mumbai-born Dr Tahera Qutbuddin First Indian To Win Arab World Nobel Prize.

Dr Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago, recently became the first person of Indian-origin to win the 15th Sheikh Zyed Book Award. The award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of the Arab world. Dr Qutbuddin, who was born in Mumbai…

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The World Book Capital for 2021: Tbilisi, Georgia.

In the Republic of Georgia, a small but spirited weekend opens the 2021 UNESCO World Book Capital program. As is its custom, UNESCO’s World Book Capital program used World Book Day (Friday, April 23) to make its transfer from the 2020 city to the new 2021 designee. Less than …

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J.K. Rowling children's story 'The Christmas Pig' to be released on October 12.

One of the world's most successful authors is coming back with a new book just in time for the holiday season. Author J.K. Rowling announced Tuesday on her website that her latest children's book is titled "The Christmas Pig." Rowling said the story is about…

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Shravan Rathod, of Nadeem-Shravan duo dies at age 66.

Composer Shravan Rathod, of popular music director duo Nadeem-Shravan, passed away on 22 April due to the current pandemic related complications. Nadeem-Shravan were among the most popular music composers in the 90s, giving chartbuster soundtracks in films like Aashiqui (199…

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405th death anniversary of William Shakespeare.

April 23 is the 405th death anniversary of the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, William Shakespeare.  William Shakespeare, who was born in 1564 at Stratford, England, was an English poet, playwright and actor, commonly regarded as the finest master of the English language and …

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Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet wins National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, published as Hamnet & Judith in Canada, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. The Irish-British author's novel is an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague. Hamnet, an unfort…

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Carmen Maria Machado wins Rathbones Folio prize for queer abuse memoir.

The American author Carmen Maria Machado has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for her memoir "In the Dream House", which examines the domestic abuse she was subjected to by her ex-girlfriend. It is at once an inventive and radical work, a true testimony to her…

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Author Beverly Cleary dies at age 104.

Beverly Cleary, the award-winning children's author whose work has been read by young readers for more than 70 years, has died at 104, her publisher, HarperCollins, said in a statement Friday (26th). Cleary, whose books helped generations of kids grapple with the challen…

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Renowned Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski passes away.

Renowned Polish poet Adam Zagajewski has passed away. He was a leading figure in Poland’s New Wave or Generation ’68, a literary movement of the late 1960s that called for a simple language to relate directly to reality.  Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” was…

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‘Aatmanirbharta’ chosen as Oxford Hindi Word of the Year 2020.

‘Aatmanirbharta’, implying self-reliance, has been chosen by Oxford Languages, which publishes the Oxford English dictionary, as its Hindi Word of Year 2020. The Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that is chosen to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of th…

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73rd Independence Day celebrated today, February 4, 2021.

The 73rd Independence Day, which is themed “A prosperous tomorrow - a prosperous motherland”, is celebrated ceremoniously today (February 04) at Independence Square. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will grace the event following the arrival of distinguished guests. The President…

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Emmy-winning Screenwriter & Producer dies.

Emmy-winning producer and writer Allan Burns passed away at the age of 85. Born on June 14, 1935, Allan Burns spent his childhood in Baltimore, Maryland before he made it to the west for attending the University of Oregon in 1953. Burns began his writing career in 1962 as an…

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Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize 2020.

Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize 2020. New York based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his debut novel "Shuggie Bain", about a boy in 1980s Glasgow trying to support his mother as she struggles with addiction and poverty. The 44-year-old S…

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Daniel Menaker, award-winning US author and editor, died at age 79.

Daniel Menaker, award-winning US author and editor, died at age 79. Daniel Menaker, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House who worked with Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and many others, has died …

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.

# The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020. Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 8 October 2020. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to the American poet  Louise Glück "for her unm…

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Pope Francis’ new book “Let Us Dream” to hit stands on 01st December.

# Pope Francis’ new book “Let Us Dream” to hit stands on 01st December. Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, has penned a new book titled “Let Us Dream”. In this book, the preeminent spiritual leader explains about what pandem…

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Dutch novel 'The Discomfort of Evening' wins the 2020 International Booker Prize.

# Dutch novel 'The Discomfort of Evening' wins the 2020 International Booker Prize. "The Discomfort of Evening," written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, is the winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize, announc…

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