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’ ...
When someone says they love stories, we imagine their head buried in a book or them cuddled up in a blanket watching a blockbuster. Seldom do we think of the stories that hide beneath the pixels of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra) organised a refined and intellectually engaging literary evening to honour distinguished women prose writers, celebrating the strength, sensitivity, and narrative ...
Its an anthology that took 10 years to compile but thats not surprising given that it takes in 200 years of Indians writing prose and poetry in English and what emerges is a priceless collection of ...