Ngugi wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 May 28 2025 The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi,... Read more »
On Iowa City’s Market Street stands a low-slung, trailer-like red building. This is Dave’s Fox Head Tavern, one of the sites where the official culture and the counterculture of this most literary... Read more »
Oisín Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meath and lives in Dublin. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse comic fiction prize with his first novel, Nobber, about the... Read more »
We readers of Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild know something that the novel’s protagonist could not: No one, at least in this corner of France, ever really dies.... Read more »
Book News: Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature
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Queues of customers spilled out of South Koreaâs bookshops yesterday and online stores crashed as readers tried to get their hands on the work of the new Nobel prize winner, Han Kang.... Read more »
Book News: Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024
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In 1952, a book appeared that redefined childrenâs literature. âA lap is so you donât get crumbs on the floor,â it proclaimed. âA mustache is to wear on Halloween. A hat is... Read more »
Book News: 2024 NBA longlist for young people’s literature announced
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