Mexico City: Carlos Fuentes, a towering literary figure in the Spanish-speaking world, died on Tuesday at a hospital in the Mexican capital. He was 83. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but the writer was known to suffer from heart problems. An acclaimed novelist and essayist who taught at Princeton and other elite universities, Fuentes also served Mexico as a diplomat, though he often despaired over his country's...
01:46 PM, May 16, 2012
New York: PD James could hold back no longer. The 91-year-old detective novelist said on Wednesday she was glad to finally complete a long-desired project - a sequel to Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.' James' "Death Comes to Pemberley" will be published by Faber & Faber in Britain in early November and by Alfred A. Knopf in the United states on December 6. James said in a telephone interview from...
02:08 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Gijon, Spain: Mark Keating could never find pirate novels he liked to read so he decided to write his own. Most of the fiction he consumed had fantasy or supernatural elements, or was about people who became pirates out of need and then went straight as soon as they could. "That's not what I felt about pirates. I thought, I'll write one about pirates who want to be pirates, who...
08:41 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Paris: A French novelist will file a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, her lawyer said, throwing fresh uncertainty into a fierce national debate about whether the former International Monetary Fund chief can return to his country's presidential race. A sexual assault case against Strauss-Kahn in New York has been badly weakened by questions about his accuser's credibility. As a result, France was consumed Monday by...
08:50 PM, Jul 04, 2011
London: After ending the famous 15-year feud with American writer Paul Theroux at the Hay Festival this week, Nobel laureate V S Naipaul has sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. Often described as the 'greatest living writer of English prose', Naipaul made the comments at the Royal Geographic Society on Wednesday, prompting angry responses from literary critics, writers...
07:05 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Paris: Noted French classics scholar Jacqueline de Romilly, who was only the second woman to be elected to the prestigious Academie Francaise, has died at the age of 97, the government said on Sunday. Romilly was named to the Academie Francaise in 1989, following in the footsteps of writer Marguerite Yourcenar at the elite institute that has acted as the guardian of the French language since its founding in 1635....
03:26 PM, Dec 20, 2010
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Writer Philip Pullman speaks about his latest novel
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05:56 PM, May 01, 2009
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London: His figures of 32-5-128-0 tell the story as to how the lanky Delhi pacer was belted all over the Lord's on the first two days of the Test against England. Sharma's wayward bowling naturally came in for sharp criticisms from the experts. Wasim Akram, who had seen the pacer from close quarters in the initial stages of the Indian Premier League, felt that a bowler who depends solely on...
10:38 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Laxman Rao has penned 18 books in the 30 years that he has been brewing tea for Delhiites. ...
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