literature
Berlin's biggest literature festival, taking place in September, will feature around 150 authors from 50 countries, organizers announced on Wednesday. Notable authors such as Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing, and Elif Shafak will present their new works to literature enthusiasts at the event, which welcomes around 20,000 visitors every year. Festival curator Helon Habila had highlighted themes like collective trauma, environmental issues, and human rights as key topics, reflecting the current global climate of pandemics, wars, and climate change. Young visitors are also catered for at the 24th editio...
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Berlin's biggest literature festival, taking place in September, will feature around 150 authors from 50 countries, organizers announced on Wednesday. Notable authors such as Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing, and Elif Shafak will present their new works to literature enthusiasts at the event, which welcomes around 20,000 visitors every year. Festival curator Helon Habila had highlighted themes like collective trauma, environmental issues, and human rights as key topics, reflecting the current global climate of pandemics, wars, and climate change. Young visitors are also catered for at the 24th editio...
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Berlin's biggest literature festival, taking place in September, will feature around 150 authors from 50 countries, organizers announced on Wednesday. Notable authors such as Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing, and Elif Shafak will present their new works to literature enthusiasts at the event, which welcomes around 20,000 visitors every year. Festival curator Helon Habila had highlighted themes like collective trauma, environmental issues, and human rights as key topics, reflecting the current global climate of pandemics, wars, and climate change. Young visitors are also catered for at the 24th editio...
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The library of Brothers Grimm fairy tales is to be digitized. "The books, of which around 700 relate to the Brothers Grimm 'Children's and Household Tales,' are particularly valuable because of the traces of their workings they contain," the University of Kassel announced on Tuesday. The Grimms crossed out text passages in the books they analysed for the "Children's and Household Tales," made handwritten notes in the margins and inserted notes on scraps of paper. Until now, anyone seeking access to these culturally and historically significant sources has had to rely on the originals. The inte...
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Ismail Kadare, who had long been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Literature Prize, died at the age of 88 after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. A nurse at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorised to talk to the press, said the renowned author had suffered a cardiac arrest. “Albania and Albanians lost their genius of letters, their spiritual emancipator, the Balkans (lost) the poet of its myths, Europe and the world (lost) one of the most renowned representatives of modern literature,” Albanian Pr...
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It's the book that no one asked for, and it’s coming your way in October. Publishing house HarperCollins is to “unleash” former UK PM Boris Johnson’s memoir later this year, on 10 October, and it’s titled “Unleased”. HarperCollins described the memoir, which will cover Johnson’s time as mayor of London and as prime minister, as an “honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book, written in his inimitable style and shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir". “This is the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, uncensored, unleashed.” Johnson received a £510,000 (approx. €603,000) a...
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A rare first edition Harry Potter book had been sold at auction for more than £45,000 (approx. €53,000). The novel, "The Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", was auctioned off at the Lyon and Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh. The copy of J. K. Rowling’s book is one of the first 500 printed in 1997; publishers produced only a small number of copies because of the uncertainty towards its popularity. It was predicted to sell for between £40,000 and £60,000, because of some unique errors. The book eventually sold for £45,201 (€53,500), and features a spelling mistake of ‘Philosopher’s’ on...
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Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher of her works, said today. Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20, freshly graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, with her “Tamago no Furu Machi,” translated as “The Town that Rains Eggs” — a surrealist portrayal of Japan’s wartime destruction. With her trademark long black hair an...
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Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women's Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger”, a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation. Its sister award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, went to US writer V. V. Ganeshananthan for her novel “Brotherless Night,” about a family torn apart by Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Both come with £30,000 pounds (€35,000) in prize money. Both winners referenced the conflict-clouded international situation, at a time when the arts world is grappling with divisions over the Israel-Hamas war and corporate sponsorship of the art...
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The new, all-female, international arts festival inspired by one of the most famous female characters in Irish Literature, Molly Bloom from James Joyce's "Ulysses", is taking place today until the end of the weekend (16 June). The YES Festival is the first of its kind in the world, and is the concept of Seán Doran and Liam Browne (DoranBrowne), Artistic Directors of Arts Over Borders. It features 32 female artists from 16 countries across the world, coming together to perform in a range of multi-disciplinary and free events across various locations in Derry and North Donegal. These events incl...
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