Jaipur Literature Festival's 16th edition to return on January 19; Nobel, Booker winners to take partThe fest is expected to see participation by over 250 authors, politicians & pop-culture icons.
2019, the year of debutant writers: From Madhuri Vijay to Roshan Ali, first-timers who basked in literary gloryMadhuri Vijay and Roshan Ali outshone well established writers.
Amitabha Bagchi wins DSC Prize, $25,000 for 'Half The Night Is Gone', Kanak Dixit congratulatesThe prize was awarded at the IME Nepal Literature Festival which concluded on Monday in Nepal.
JCB winner Madhuri Vijay senses hostility towards fiction; says she thought her book won't release in IndiaVijay could not attend the award ceremony in Jaipur due to her pregnancy.
RVCE wins Bengaluru round of ET in Campus Quiz 2016The Bengaluru round of ETiC south quiz was held at Mount Carmel College, which saw a record participation from over 140 students.
Six writers of Indian origin shortlisted for DSC Prize 2016The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature carries $50,000 for the best work in fiction by an author of any ethnicity or nationality.
Mark Tully stresses on translation of books from regional languagesMark Tully has stressed on the need for more and more writings in regional languages to be translated into English saying there is lot to b...
Has commercialisation of books killed good writing? Jaipur Literature Festival debatesCelebrated Tamil writer C S Laxmi expressed the concern "amidst the intellectual community" about the commercial aspect overtaking real wri...
Jhumpa Lahiri wins the $50,000 DSC Prize for her book 'The Lowland'The Prize celebrates writing on the South Asian region from writers across the globe and is given to the best novel or translations into En...
Books: Top authors' top reads in 2014Amit Chaudhuri, who is also an acclaimed musician and a professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, named four b...
Jhumpa Lahiri, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in DSC Prize shortlistLahiri's "The Lowland", an intimate portrayal of two brothers and political passion was earlier on the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist as w...
Award winning India author Tabish Khair writing family epicTabish Khair, the award-winning Indian author of well-known books such as How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position and The...
Jaipur Literature Festival: Cyrus Mistry wins $ 50,000 DSC Prize for 2014Mistry was presented with the award at a ceremony at the Jaipur Literature Festival here this evening by Gloria Steinem.
Active marketing important in publishing: Cyrus MistryHe believes his first book "The Radiance of Ashes" published in 2005, could have got more attention with more active marketing.
I believe in the first five pages: David Godwin"I look for very distinctive voices. And good stories, of course, but it is the voice for me that is the most important thing in a new book...
- China has much to learn from India: Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said 'genuine' friendship between China and India on the basis of mutual trust is 'essential' and China...
- Get set Potter fans, J K Rowling may be headed for Jaipur fest
Rowling's Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated $15 billion. In March 2010, Forbes estimated Rowling's net worth to be $1 b...