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Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay dead

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Legendary Bengali writer and Sahitya Akademi President Sunil Gangopadhyay died here early Tuesday following a major cardiac arrest, family sources said.

Equally acclaimed for his poems and novels in

‘Hillary was first, I said too’

The news about a forthcoming book by British author Mick Conefrey that tries to establish that Edmund Hillary was the first man to scale Everest during the 1953 expedition, and which received wide cov

SEAL book on Bin Laden raid exposes state secrets: US

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The Pentagon said on Tuesday a new book by a former Navy SEAL on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contains 'sensitive and classified information', opening the way to possible criminal charges agai

No move to ban sale of controversial book on OBL: Pentagon

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The Pentagon has ruled out any move to ban the sale of the controversial book, No Easy Day, on the killing of Osama bin Laden, which it says has been written by a former Navy SEAL in breach of contrac

Author acknowledges fake Dylan quotes, resign

A staff writer for The New Yorker has resigned and his latest book has been halted after he acknowledged inventing quotes by Bob Dylan.

Jonah Lehrer released a statement on Monday through his publis

Tagore award for Akkitham

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Renowned Malayalam poet Akkitham Namboodiri, who received the Tagore Literature Award here on Tuesday, said that his first published poem at the age of 12 was titled ‘Tagore’.

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Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes dies

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Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world's best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language.

President Felipe Calderon an

Anthology of dalit writing to hit stands April 10

For the generation that has known M.C. Raja as the name of hostel and Ayothiya Dasar as the name of a research centre, here comes the Oxford anthology of Tamil dalit writing. The anthology, to be rele

Bonfire of sanity in Jaipur

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The five-day Jaipur Literature Festival closed on a sad, angry and distressing note on Tuesday when even the image of Salman Rushdie, the author of the Booker of Bookers Midnight’s Children, The Satan

British author Julian Barnes wins Booker Prize

British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the 2011 Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, for his novel 'The Sense of an Ending'.

Barnes, who has been s

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.