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Indian-origin author Jhumpa Lahiri turns down Noguchi Museum award in protest of kaffiyeh banPulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri has declined the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award from the Noguchi Museum in Queens. Her decision follo...- Beauty in imperfectionThe Japanese art of Kintsugi, or golden repair, teaches valuable lessons about accepting failures, learning from them, and persevering. The...
- Sir Elton John gets National Humanities Medal from US President Joe Biden. See detailsElton John received National Humanities Medal from US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden for his contributions in the fight agains...
- Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree credited her English translator: Here's why they deserve all the praiseTranslating literature isn't a mere technical exercise, subbing one word for another.
- Jhumpa Lahiri's latest is a book on translation, will hit the shelves next spring"To be a writer-translator is to value both being and becoming," Lahiri writes in the book.
- Pulitzer prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri's new book will release in April'Whereabouts' is the story of a woman protagonist and her journey through life.
- English is a bigger mentor and a closer friend: Paul Zacharia, Malayalam writerPaul Zacharia on being the first leading Malayalam author to write a novel in English.
- David Baldacci keen to write novel set in IndiaDavid Baldacci fans have something to cheer as the celebrated American crime writer is eager to pen a novel with an India setting.
- US President Barack Obama's love for Jhumpa Lahiri highlights desi successPresident Obama on Friday honoured Jhumpa Lahiri with the National Humanities Medal for her works of fiction at an elegant White House even...
- Obama presents National Humanities medal to Jhumpa LahiriIndian-American Lahiri was presented with the medal yesterday at the White House in the presence of luminaries from the field of arts and h...
- 'Nirbashito' not a biopic on Taslima: Churni GangulyChurni Ganguly, the director of "Nirbashito", says the film is inspired by the life of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.
- Jhumpa Lahiri's novel among Obama's summer reading listJhumpa Lahiri's second novel 'The Lowland' is among the six books which are part of the summer reading list of US President Barack Obama.
- 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...
- How the big fat Indian lit fest is wooing global writersWriters are known to have good imaginations. It's no wonder, then, that writer & festival director William Dalrymple thinks up creative way...
- 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...
- Whose worth went up or down todayNarayana Murthy’s son, a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard, has developed a software algorithm that could ensure optimum utilizat...
- Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Lowland' shortlisted for top UK prizeLowland is about the lives of brothers Subhash and Udayan, their choices and their fate. A novel about how political passion can destroy li...
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- Is making fact stranger than fiction a literary hindrance in India?There is even more variety in the hordes now milling around the site of a purported hidden cache of gold in an equally obscure village in U...
- Kobo enters Indian market with launch of four devicesCanada-based e-reader maker Kobo entered the domestic market with the launch of four devices in the range of Rs 7,999 to 13,999.
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