Nobel winner Orhan Pamuk speaks about art, politics, and the importance of speaking truth to power
November 12, 2019
Atwood becomes only the second female author to win the award twice, sharing the £50,000 prize at the 50th anniversary ceremony at London´s Guildhall.
October 15, 2019
Revealing the jacket cover of the book, Hamid on Wednesday took to Twitter to share that the novel will launch soon.
April 25, 2019
The original French version of the gothic novel, "Notre-Dame de Paris", became the fastest selling book in France and is also a number one bestseller worldwide in English in two sub-categories of...
April 16, 2019
Penny Mordaunt expressed admiration for the book in light of World Book Day.
March 9, 2019
Kamila’s seventh novel, Home Fire is an adaptation of a Greek myth Antigone that reimagines Sophocles's play in a contemporary setting.
November 28, 2018
Stockholm: The Swedish Academy, which has awarded the Nobel Literature Prize since 1901, said Monday it would expand its prize jury to include outsiders for the first time following a scandal that...
November 19, 2018
Kamila and Mohsin were earlier nominated for the coveted Man Booker Prize.
November 15, 2018
LONDON: Stephen Hawking´s final work, which tackles issues from the existence of God to the potential for time travel, was launched on Monday by his children, who helped complete the book after the...
October 16, 2018
Author of renowned book ‘Salt and Saffron’, Karachi-born Kamila Shamsie recently bagged this year's Women’s Prize for Fiction for her 2017 book ‘Home Fire’.According to BBC, it was...
June 7, 2018
MULTAN: Pakistan's famed Urdu novelist Mazhar Kaleem, chiefly known for his spy novels 'Imran Series', passed away today after a prolonged illness.Kaleem has successfully written over 500 books...
May 26, 2018
NEW YORK: American author George R.R. Martin Wednesday announced a new book to be released in November -- but fans may be disappointed to learn it´s not the highly-anticipated sixth installment of...
April 26, 2018
"It will be the full record of my view of things, of society, of the way we are governed, of the way we treat animals in my country," said Bardot, known in France by her initials "BB".
December 27, 2017
PARIS: Two novels about the Nazis took France´s biggest literary prizes on Monday, with Eric Vuillard´s story of how German industry and finance backed Adolf Hitler winning the top Prix...
November 6, 2017
KARACHI: Oxford University Press has held a special talk on the recently launched book “Crimson Papers”, written by a renowned Pakistani poet and civil rights activist Harris...
October 28, 2017
WASHINGTON: American author George Saunders has won the Man Booker prize for his novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ - becoming the second US author to take home the £50,000 fiction...
October 19, 2017
NEW YORK: The final poems of Leonard Cohen, completed days before the legendary songwriter died, will be published in an anthology next year, his estate announced late Friday. Entitled "The Flame,"...
October 7, 2017
LONDON: US author Paul Auster tops the shortlist for Britain´s prestigious Man Booker Prize published Wednesday, one of six books that organisers said "collectively push against the borders of...
September 13, 2017
LONDON: The Hogwarts universe is set to expand by an additional two new Harry Potter books, published in conjunction with a British Library event, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the...
July 20, 2017
Noted Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif is coming out with a new novel titled Red Birds. It is scheduled to hit stands in September 2018. Red Birds comes five years after his last book "The Baloch...
July 11, 2017