New York Black & African Literature Fesitval Debuts in September

A new literary festival titled The New York Black & African Literature Festival  (NYBALF) will host writers, poets, public intellectuals, artists, and community organizers from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas in New York from September …

Giant of African literature Ngugi waThiong’o remembered as fierce writer

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail and exile. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country – Kenya – from a colonial …

What timeless literature tells us about injustice, war and human nature

A work of literature is called great when it remains contemporaneous across time spans and ages. In our civilisation, the Mahabharata is one such epic. One can spend a lifetime poring over the plots and subplots of this epic, examining the complexity of …

Feature: Digital storytelling adds new appeal to night tours at Vietnam's Temple of Literature

HANOI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- In the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, the Temple of Literature, known locally as Van Mieu, has begun using digital projection technologies to present its cultural heritage in a new light, drawing growing interest from both local and …

‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that the book has aimed to chronicle. Karnataka, the home …

India News | Uttarakhand Government Announces New Initiatives to Promote Literature and Culture

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 8 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the state government is committed to the preservation and promotion of literature and culture. He said the government has initiated steps to honour …

The magic of discovering literature

Today’s Tech Titans Grew Up On The Same Dystopian Sci-Fi Literature

The future, an abstract concept perpetually just beyond our grasp, isn’t being shaped by the collective imagination of humanity. Instead, a compelling argument can be made that its contours are being drawn by a remarkably homogenous and numerically small …

Another reason to love classic literature

When I started writing this column early in 2010 as a way to encourage more people to appreciate and read classic books, I listed some of the many reasons that I love old, quality literature: Its timelessness, the beauty of the language, the birth of new …

A niche publisher is using Asian literature to bring Taiwan and Japan closer to Ukraine

Until the 1990s, Ukrainian and Taiwanese literature shared a similar fate on the map of world literature: rarely translated, outsiders perceived them as a literary subset of their larger neighbor, Russia and China, respectively. The situation changed …