For all its understated ambience, the public interactions that follow each of the sessions at the Alchemist Hay Festival at Thiruvananthapuram throw up interesting responses. Snapshots and dialogues from the festival by
Antara Das.
By targeting select audiences and focusing on regional content, independent publishers are carving out a place for themselves.
Indian-origin novelist Rohinton Mistry is among 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious $ 96,070 Man Booker International Prize, where strangely British thriller writer John Le Carre withdrew his name.
No longer do stories that inspire movies get reeled in by their cinematic adaptations. Instead, moviemakers are happy to give authors their due (while also publicising their movies, of course).
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni spoke to
Sonakshi Babbar about feminist conflicts, reinterpreting Draupadi, finding strong women in everyday life and
One Amazing Thing. Read on for more.
Delhi is all set to host a weekend book bazaar to mark 100 years since it was declared the National Capital
When most of us think of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, we think back to the perfectly coifed first lady of the early `60s in a stylish shift, a string of pearls, a pill box hat. Or the Jackie O of the next decade, the rich widow in huge sunglasses that shielded her from the world. But this First Lady was a lot more.
Internet giant Google struck an agreement with France's biggest publisher Hachette Livre to scan thousands of out-of-print French books for Google's online library.
She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but a new study says Jane Austen was a poor speller who got a big helping hand from her editor.
The world’s biggest book fair in Frankfurt, Germany, is used to seeing some big book launches, but none came larger than a six-by-nine-foot atlas.
Hilary Mantel's
Wolf Hall, last year's winner of the Man Booker Prize in London, has been honoured with the National Book Critics Circle Prize for fiction in New York.
A distinguished Hindi poet and the writer of the great collection
Madhushala, was born in 1907. He was the second Indian to get his doctorate in English literature from Cambridge University.
The Sunday Times on Sunday announced support to a new literary prize worth 25,000 pounds - the biggest prize money for a short story in Britain and Ireland.
Don’t sell old books to the raddiwala. Give them to Karmayog, which sends them to children in remote areas, reports
Mini Pant Zachariah.
Adding another gem to its kitty of Indian imprints, Penguin Books-India launched its classic Hamish Hamilton imprint in the country with a collection of political essays, Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy and The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi on contemporary Pakistan.