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Famed romance writer Qiong Yao dies
1 month ago

Famed romance writer Qiong Yao dies

China Daily  

File photo of Qiong Yao. Renowned romance novelist Qiong Yao died in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Wednesday. Qiong was regarded as the most popular romance writer in the Chinese-speaking world, and her novels have been adapted into more than 100 films and television series. Her novel Jidu Xiyang Hong was adapted into a popular TV drama in 1985, marking …

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Barbara Taylor Bradford embodied the intrepid, rags-to-riches heroines of her bestselling novels
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Barbara Taylor Bradford embodied the intrepid, rags-to-riches heroines of her bestselling novels

The Independent  

The day I get a good review in The New York Times I’ll kill myself,” once said the novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford who, following a short illness, has died at the age of 91. “They only give good reviews to books that don’t sell.” Taylor Bradford, known affectionately across the industry as BTB, certainly never had to worry about her …

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Manju Kapur’s gallery of life
1 year ago

Manju Kapur’s gallery of life

Live Mint  

It’s a murky Saturday morning on the eve of Diwali, and I’m sitting with writer Manju Kapur in the drawing room of her home on Man Singh Road in Delhi. “We spend most of our lives with our families,” Kapur says, “And when women get married, they are told they haven’t just married a man, but his whole family.” Words …

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AS Byatt and the freedom to think
1 year, 1 month ago

AS Byatt and the freedom to think

Hindustan Times  

English writer and critic AS Byatt who died on 16th November, aged 87, won the Booker Prize in 1990 for her most widely read and translated novel, Possession. Rather, it has to do with what becomes of one’s mind and emotions as they encounter her peculiar array of characters.” The Potter family saga continues in Still Life, Babel Tower and …

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Can AI-generated art help us understand the future Octavia Butler saw?
1 year, 1 month ago

Can AI-generated art help us understand the future Octavia Butler saw?

LA Times  

American Artist, “Study for Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy,” 2023, AI generated image I’ve been doing this ongoing, multitiered project about Octavia E. Butler. I was thinking about Butler’s grandmother moving, having this chicken farm, and then her granddaughter becoming a well-known author and just that progression of trying to make one’s way in a place. American Artist, “Study for …

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Miranda Seymour: ‘Jean Rhys was far ahead of her time’
1 year, 10 months ago

Miranda Seymour: ‘Jean Rhys was far ahead of her time’

Hindustan Times  

Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, despite being the first wife of Edward Rochestor, remained dehumanized and faceless until Jean Rhys decided to bring her to literary life in 1966 through her hugely popular work, Wide Sargasso Sea. Seymour visited that house with Lennox Honychurch, Dominica’s most noted historian, who showed her …

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Kothainayaki Ammal: A Writer, Journalist, Storyteller and Much More
1 year, 10 months ago

Kothainayaki Ammal: A Writer, Journalist, Storyteller and Much More

News 18  

While travelling down memory lane, we find that there are so many unsung heroes of our pious land, who have contributed towards literary works, music, and freedom struggle, but have remained mostly unknown to the people of this era. A fan of Kothainayaki Ammal, S. Ramanathan Chettiar, a resident of Saigon then, was so moved by one of her novels …

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“Explaining particular cases in very great detail”: Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of fiction
4 years, 11 months ago

“Explaining particular cases in very great detail”: Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of fiction

ABC  

“It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?” — Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. This is what Nora Hämäläinen calls “the struggle of consciousness to face reality” and “the dynamic relationship between mind and world, the effort to see more clearly, which is central for Murdoch’s moral philosophy.” Literature …

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Judith Krantz: Bestselling author of racy romance novels
5 years, 6 months ago

Judith Krantz: Bestselling author of racy romance novels

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “They’ve done everything but tattoo a ‘P’ for pornographer …

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Portrait of a writer as a ‘crotchety’ woman
5 years, 10 months ago

Portrait of a writer as a ‘crotchety’ woman

Live Mint  

Someone, somewhere called me curmudgeonly. “Men always come up to me at literary fests and say, ‘Please sign this book for my wife,’ as if they are ashamed to be reading me,” she says. “Though recently I have noticed younger men are not ashamed to be reading women.” Listen To Me: By Shashi Deshpande, Context, 380 pages, ₹ 699. It …

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Portrait of a writer as a ‘crotchety’ woman
5 years, 10 months ago

Portrait of a writer as a ‘crotchety’ woman

Live Mint  

Someone, somewhere called me curmudgeonly. “Men always come up to me at literary fests and say, ‘Please sign this book for my wife,’ as if they are ashamed to be reading me,” she says. “Though recently I have noticed younger men are not ashamed to be reading women.” Listen To Me: By Shashi Deshpande, Context, 380 pages, ₹699. It is …

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