Literature
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How to understand your grief through writing
Losing a family member at such a time can bring with it an added level of grief. Catherine Cole The…
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Holiday reading: Five picks from a great year for African writing
South Africa’s Damon Galgut lifted the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Promise, and exciting prose continued to sprout.…
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Booker Prize won by South African writer Damon Galgut for The Promise
The 57-year-old, who has been shortlisted twice previously, won the 50,000-pound ($91,783) prize against a shortlist that included Pulitzer Prize winner Richard…
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Guide to the classics: Euripides’ The Trojan Women – an unflinching look at the brutality of war
Extensive narratives of the war are told in the oral traditions of myth and literature, and they also appear very…
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The best new books to read in October as selected by avid readers and critics
Each month, we’ll present a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf’s Kate Evans and The Book…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the…
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How Nadifa Mohamed became the first Somali person to be short-listed for the Booker Prize with new novel, The Fortune Men
She didn’t know at the time, the discovery would lead her to write what’s now become the first novel written…
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Trojan War retold as a sprightly, well-paced bit of epic theatre
The Trojan Women, one of his greatest plays, shows this spectacularly: not only is it a staggering lamentation for the…
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Why translators should be named on book covers
This lack of transparency is misguided and unfair. Jennifer Croft The Guardian Translators are like ninjas … Why translators should…
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Fruits of the loom: why Greek myths are relevant for all time
Among my most treasured books as a child was a volume of Greek myths. Charlotte Higgins The Guardian My eldest…
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Could sending humans to sleep for a year help solve the climate crisis?
What lengths would you go to in order to save the planet from climate crisis? Sarah Peters The Conversation Stop…
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Best book club bets: the must-read books for winter
This gripping novel is the story of Lex, a New York lawyer with a dark past. Georgie Gordon The Age…
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Australian-Indian author Aravind Adiga, who won the Booker in 2008 with his debut The White Tiger, is one of six…
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“200 years of Freedom and Hellenism”
Press release: 4th International Literary Competition NOSTOS The Greek Cultural Organization “Nostos” participates in the festivities for the 200 years…
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Moved by words: how poetry helps us express our feelings
Gorman has been described as bringing poetry to the masses. Maria Takolander The Conversation However, when it comes to the…
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Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times
Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed it “a play in which nothing happens, twice.” Mark Byron The…
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