Literature
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose'
World | Oct 10, 2024, 06:05 PM ISTHan Kang is a distinguished author in South Korea who has previously won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for "The Vegetarian". She comes from a literary background as her father was also a reputed novelist and began her career in 1993 with a short story collection.
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Nobel Prize 2020: American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize
World | Oct 08, 2020, 05:09 PM ISTThe Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
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First female head of Nobel’s literature award body has died
World | Oct 13, 2019, 08:09 PM ISTDanius was elected to a lifetime position on the Swedish Academy’s board in 2013 and because the body’s first female permanent secretary in 2015. She resigned the position in 2018.
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Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, 2019 announced
World | Oct 10, 2019, 05:15 PM ISTBreaking: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke.
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'No Nobel Prize in Literature award this year following sex-abuse charges'
World | May 04, 2018, 05:23 PM ISTThe Swedish Academy says the Nobel Prize in literature will be not awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within its ranks that have tarnished the body's reputation.
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Kazuo Ishiguro named Nobel Prize winner in Literature: Interesting facts about the author
Books & Culture | Oct 05, 2017, 07:05 PM ISTKazuo Ishiguro won the Booker Prize in 1989 for The Remains of the Day.
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5 gripping short stories by Ruskin Bond you can enjoy reading with a cup of tea
Books & Culture | Jun 12, 2018, 11:16 AM ISTOn his 83rd birthday, let’s enjoy some of his best stories with a cuppa tea. Let’s feed our soul with the morsels of fine literature.
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Ruskin Bond at Times Lit Fest
World | Nov 26, 2016, 04:15 PM ISTSighting his outstanding contribution in the field of literature, noted author Ruskin Bond was today presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Times Lit Fest. Bond, moments after receiving the award, reminded his young readers
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Legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan gets 2016 Nobel in Literature
World | Oct 13, 2016, 05:45 PM ISTIn a development that should bring cheer to music fans of American singer-songwriter, artist and writer Bob Dylan has been declared the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic
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Mother outperforms son in class 12th exam in Assam
India | Jun 02, 2015, 09:59 PM IST37 year-old mother outperforms 18-year-old son in Class 12th ExamNew Delhi: In a rare competition between a mother and her son, the 37-year-old Nayanmoni Bezbaruah has outshined her son in the higher secondary school examination.She
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Jaya Bachchan applaudes filmmakers' choice to adapt published works
Bollywood | Jan 26, 2015, 08:23 PM ISTKolkata: Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan said it's a "wonderful" trend in Indian cinema that filmmakers are going for subjects based on published literature and said this augurs well for women in cinema."I think a new
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Jaipur Litfest: Engaging, mind-stimulating conversations on table
Lifestyle | Jan 21, 2015, 11:59 AM ISTJaipur: Every year, the annual literary pilgrimage Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) offers a fine balance among different writing genres that peacefully co-exist and give the audience an opportunity to deliberate on issues that usually don't
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India most 'literate' country in world: Hanif Kureishi
Lifestyle | Jan 18, 2015, 02:06 PM ISTKolkata: Award-winning British playwright and author Hanif Kureishi Saturday praised Indians for their continued interest in literature and said the nation is the "most literate" country in the world.Kureishi, who is of Pakistani descent, is
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Pranab Mukherjee condoles Ananthamurthy's death
India | Aug 23, 2014, 11:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday condoled the death of writer UR Ananthamurthy, saying India will remember his invaluable contribution to literature.In a statement, the president said: "Nation will always remember Ananthamurthy's invaluable contribution
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Tata Literature Live to honour Khushwant Singh
India | Nov 14, 2013, 07:46 AM ISTMumbai: The Tata Literature Live will honour the grand old man of Indian writing, Kushwant Singh today with a lifetime achievement award. Announcing the Mumbai LitFest 2013 at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Tata
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Editors Guild flays Tewari's suggestion for issuing licence to journalists
India | Aug 22, 2013, 08:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Editors Guild of India has termed Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari's suggestion of licensing journalists as an "undemocratic" practice and said it is a tool of totalitarian states to control the media."The
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Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel to be out in September
India | Jul 09, 2013, 05:18 PM ISTNew Delhi, July 9: Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel "The Lowland", a story of fate and will, exile and return, of the price of idealism and of a love that can last long
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Hindi Writer Amarkant Presented Jnanpith Award
India | Mar 14, 2012, 02:53 PM ISTAllahabad, Mar 14: Noted Hindi litterateur Amarkant today received the prestigious Jnanpith Award at a glittering function here.The 87-year-old writer was presented with the award by renowned critic Namvar Singh at a function organised at
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Vijaydan Detha, Satchidanandan Among Nobel Prize Aspirants
India | Oct 04, 2011, 06:17 PM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 4: Seasoned Malayalam poet K Satchidanandan, who has been writing for over 40 years, says there is a wealth of writing in Indian languages that has not yet been discovered outside the
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Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize
World | Oct 07, 2010, 08:19 PM ISTStockholm, Oct 7: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature today. The Swedish