Books

Story by Pultizer Prize winner serialised on Twitter

NEW YORK, May 26 — A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialised in 10 instalments on Twitter, according to the magazine.The New ...

Author Anouk Markovits explores Jewish sect she left

TOKYO, May 25 — Like the characters of her book, Anouk Markovits grew up inside the strict Satmar Hasidic Jewish sect, where reading novels was frowned upon and she was expected ...

Hay book fest marks 25th at ‘Woodstock of the mind’

LONDON, May 24 – For 10 days next month, some of the world’s top authors and their readers will descend on a small town on England’s border with Wales for a “Woodstock of the ...

‘X-Men’ comic plans gay superhero wedding

LOS ANGELES, May 23 — Marvel comic book crime fighters X-Men have put down their weapons and picked up wedding rings for the first same-sex marriage in the superhero world, set ...

Brazil’s Dalton Trevisan wins top Portuguese literary prize

LISBON, May 22 – Brazilian writer Dalton Trevisan, famed for his raw short stories, has won the Camoes prize, the Portuguese-speaking world’s top literary honour, officials ...
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