South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘poetic prose on historical trauma’. (Image: X/@NobelPrize) The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean ...
Let us look at the opening paragraphs of Franz Kafka’s ‘METAMORPHOSIS’, translated by David Wyllie. “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed ...
NO matter how strange it may sound, the fact is though Urdu was born in North India, its earliest written literary pieces, whether in prose or poetry, were created in South India. The word ‘Deccan’ ...
Myers reports in this audacious broadside upon current American literary writing that, "at the 1999 National Book Awards ceremony, Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had to puzzle ...
THE history of Urdu prose in northern India begins with Karbal Katha. It was also known as Dah Majlis, a misnomer popularised by the fact that the book was read out during the congregations held in ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One of Jane Austen’s jokes in Pride and Prejudice concerns the jealous Caroline Bingley sneering at Elizabeth Bennet, ...