Using humour and Fredrik Backman’s novels to breeze through life
Backman, in his style of writing and the characters he builds, tends to approach all the complexities of humanity with a touch of distance, while still managing to maintain intimacy
4m ago
Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter Prize 2024
This award is meant to be shared with a Writer of Courage, which PEN describes as a ‘writer who is active in defence of freedom of expression, often at great risk to their own safety and liberty’
4m ago
The golden hat
It was not a question one would ask as he did/ With his round glasses at the end of his nose
5m ago
6 Books to add to your summer reading list
As summer rolls around and our lifestyle changes to adjust to the heat, so do a lot of our books! So here are a few books that might make a good addition to this year’s summer reading list.
7m ago
Uncovering history through storytelling
In conversation with Reem Bassiouney on the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, 'Al Halwani', and bridging the cultural gap
7m ago
PublishHer Excellence Awards winners announced at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Mitia Osman, CEO and publisher of Mayurpankhi and the executive director at Agamee Prakashani, won the Emerging Leader Award
7m ago
Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces winners for the 18th edition
The winners were announced on 4 April, 2024, with the ceremony being hosted by Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, chairman of the SZBA Board of Trustees
7m ago
To read as an academic: The transformative journey of a reader turned student
I became curious as to how the experience of reading might change for someone who studied it for a living, and how the lens of a literature student might differ from that of a creative writing one
8m ago
February 15, 2024
Anubad Sahitya Puraskar 2024: Celebrating the achievements of translators
Speakers talked about the losses and the gains of the meaning of text after having undergone translation, about the responsibility and the power that a translator holds in taking an author’s words and transforming it for a different reader base.
February 15, 2024
A twisted tale of deception
Reading this book was uncomfortable, like a car crash waiting to happen, it was hard to read and even harder to put down.
February 8, 2024
3-day conference to be held in honor of literary magazine’s 20th anniversary
There will be a total of seven sessions held over the course of February 8, 9, and 10 where various topics will be discussed by participants, ranging from litterateurs, artists, and accomplished literary personalities.
January 30, 2024
6 magazines accepting international submissions for fiction, poetry, and everything in between
To help save you the effort and to hopefully nudge you a little to submit your work, here are a few magazines around the world accepting international submissions for this year.
January 27, 2024
The House With No Clocks
There are no clocks inside this house. The walls are quiet, the windows loud.
January 11, 2024
A writer’s odyssey
Review of ‘Save The Cat! Writes a Novel’ (Ten Speed Press, 2018) by Jessica Brody
December 29, 2023
Inside
She’s as real as my meandering/ As tangible as tinkering.
December 25, 2023
A pleasant pool of magic I would happily drown in
What I loved most as a reader about her is that her strength was not displayed in the conventional ways that most fantasy books tend to use to depict a powerful woman.
December 21, 2023
Books that reinspire the creative spark
And on this day, when you are almost certain you will complete what you set out to do (hit your word count), you pick up that pen and flip open your notebook, and it hits you.
May 18, 2023
Blue clay
The blue model of clay vices that sits in a house of glass
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