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Five principles integral to better schooling systems

A study recently published by the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics says that China’s manufacturing and productivity leap is rooted in more than 40% of its youth pursuing vocational education in the 1980s, as compared to India’s 10%. The most damning statistic on the neglect of primary education in India in the first four decades of …

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Doing the 'write' thing

China Daily

Ma Jun, 29, who won the Junma Awards for Ethnic Literature last month for his debut prose collection, Qing Bai Shijie, relaxes in his room, holding the book Wo Yu Ditan written by renowned author Shi Tiesheng, which inspired him to write. But now I'm here, at 29, happy with my life," says Ma Jun, the youngest laureate of this …

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2 weeks ago

Doing the 'write' thing

China Daily

Courage, talent and determination help award-winning author to overcome challenges "When I was 8, a doctor predicted that I wouldn't live past 20. But now I'm here, at 29, happy with my life," says Ma Jun, the youngest laureate of this year's Junma Awards for Ethnic Literature in the prose category. His winning piece is his debut prose collection, Qing …

2 weeks ago

Doing the 'write' thing

China Daily

Courage, talent and determination help award-winning author to overcome challenges "When I was 8, a doctor predicted that I wouldn't live past 20. But now I'm here, at 29, happy with my life," says Ma Jun, the youngest laureate of this year's Junma Awards for Ethnic Literature in the prose category. He started to think about following Shi's spirit: He …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

The world of romcom queen Nora Ephron is a tonic for times like these

The Independent

In the weeks since Donald Trump’s storming of democracy’s citadel, there have been expressions of dread, hand-wringing editorials, and stunned columns. open image in gallery Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ In hindsight, I see that to a writer such as Ephron, for whom everything was raw material for her art, nothing would ever be wasted. open …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Sometimes cinema can be closer to poetry than prose: Payal Kapadia on 'All We Imagine...'

Hindustan Times

New Delhi, Cinema can sometimes be closer to poetry than prose, says filmmaker Payal Kapadia whose much acclaimed "All We Imagine As Light" is an ode to women, their inner world and the bustling city of Mumbai that becomes home. The poetically titled "All We Imagine As Light", which is ready for its theatrical run on November 22, features dialogues …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Shortlist for the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature Unveiled: A Glimpse into the World of Words

The Hindu

The Hindu on Books Newsletter announces the shortlist for the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature, featuring three translations from Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam. The shortlisted books include Sakshi Malik's memoir, Malavika Rajkotia's book on her father and Partition, Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden's novel and more.

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

A Tapestry of Sylvia Plath: Exploring Her Literary Legacy Through New Anthology

The Hindu

The interview focuses on the significance of The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath, a new anthology of Plath's prose works. The interviewer discusses the importance of considering Plath's writing across different formats and how her non-fiction and poetry can be appreciated on their own. The interviewer also explores the challenges and rewards of bringing unpublished works of an author to …

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3 months ago

Poetry is all about getting close to emotions: Performance poet Megha Rao

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: For performance poet Megha Rao, poetry is all about getting close to your raw emotions. Speaking at the session ‘Poetry and Prose: It’s in the Bones’ at 12th edition of Odisha Literary Festival-2024 here on Friday, Megha said poetry is overwhelming and makes her vulnerable. When I read my poetry, I feel very vulnerable and sometimes it’s overwhelming.” In …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Bestsellers by machine

Times of India

As redundancy caused by artificial intelligence stares in the face of humanity, the first ones to go will be writers. Roald Dahl’s short story, The Great Automatic Grammatizator, heralded the end of original writing 70 years ago. In it, books written by a machine became a roaring success even if some were of poor quality and not ‘respectable’. Plagiarists continue …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Weaving the personal and the political during the tumultuous 1970s

LA Times

Book Review 1974 By Francine Prose Harper: 272 pages, $27.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The paradigm-changing era from the 1960s through the tumult of the early 1970s is the backdrop of novelist Francine Prose’s first memoir, “1974.” Her title’s namesake year included the …

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1 year ago

The color purple: It’s a new movie and an old hue that’s rich in meaning and history

Associated Press

NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly and royal, as a symbol of independence, pride and magic, purple is weighty in history and culture. Now, with the Christmas Day …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Book Review: ‘I Would Meet You Anywhere’ is a breathtaking account of an adoptee’s search for family

Associated Press

Susan Kiyo Ito always knew she was adopted, but uncovering her birth family became a decadeslong process marked by moments of warm connection and icy divides — raw stories compiled into a memoir that’s alternately touching and heartbreaking. Opening on the fateful moment when Ito is about to meet her birth mother for the first time, “I Would Meet You …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Jon Fosse | Master of mystic realism

The Hindu

A 1,250-page novel that is one long, very long sentence, plays charged with unspeakable emotional tension due to anxiety and uncertainty, minimalist poems which raise existential questions — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse’s oeuvre is filled with the “mysticism” of ordinary life. In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 to Mr. Fosse, a contender for long, the Swedish Academy …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse

Live Mint

The Nobel prize for Literature has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse. According to the official page of Nobel Prize, Fosse was awarded the Nobel laureate award “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” Fosse will receive the Nobel from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway’s Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence

Associated Press

STOCKHOLM — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.” The novelist and playwright said the prize was recognition of “literature that first and foremost aims to be …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Witerati: Prose and Cons of AI slavery

Hindustan Times

Till the previous Independence Day, I, in all smugness, supposed that I existed in a world free from any serious sort of subjugation. Of litmus tests and literature As part of his experimentations with the efficacy of the newest form of annexation that humankind is either leveraging, lusting after or labouring under, the esteemed colleague crafted this cheeky challenge for …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Cowboy with a killer phrase: the wild life and dazzling prose of Cormac McCarthy

The Independent

I can’t explain how one creates a novel,” Cormac McCarthy told Tennessee’s Kingsport Times in 1973. Outer Dark achieved miserably poor sales, as did 1973’s Child of God, and McCarthy fell into drinking heavily, which he said was an “an occupational hazard to writing”. Saul Bellow, a member of the jury for this so-called “genius grant”, praised McCarthy’s “absolutely overpowering …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Appreciation: I thought I was done with Cormac McCarthy, but he wasn’t done with me

LA Times

Cormac McCarthy refused to go on book tours and let his novels speak for themselves. I was looking for something to read at a bookshop in London’s Heathrow Airport last October when I spied Cormac McCarthy’s 2022 novel “The Passenger.” The early buzz about “The Passenger” was that it was a very good book — maybe even a great one …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Books of the Month: From Shy by Max Porter to Michael Frayn’s memoir

The Independent

Spring awakens the flowers – and stirs the publishing industry’s arrival of more “green” books. How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall is published by The Bodley Head on 6 April, £22 open image in gallery Christopher Beanland’s ‘City Parks’ is a celebration of urban green spaces City Parks: A Stroll Around the world’s Most Beautiful Public Spaces …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Oseman Announced Recipient Of Medal for Fiction, Rushdie Gets Medal for Prose At Hay Festival

News 18

British author Alice Oseman has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, while Salman Rushdie will receive the Medal for Prose. Rushdie’s latest novel, Victory City, will be launched at Hay Festival 2023 by a panel including Margaret Atwood and Elif Shafak. Hopwood has won awards including the National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Chair, the …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Just because an artist is problematic, doesn’t mean we should cancel their art

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Art and life must always be …

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2 years ago

Review of Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song: 60 years on, the singer-songwriter continues to delight with his wit and liquid prose

The Hindu

Sixty-six songs have been given the Bob Dylan treatment in The Philosophy of Modern Song. Johnnie Taylor’s ‘Cheaper to Keep Her’ talks about marriage, divorce that is a “10 billion-dollar-a-year industry” and rather contrarily of the benefits of polygamy — et tu Bob? Enjoy your free range cumin infused cayenne-dusted heirloom reduction.” Carl Perkins ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ talks of the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Book Review | An unconventional debut that still misses the plot

Deccan Chronicle

Anupama Raju’s debut novel, C, is a dreamy amalgamation of poetry and prose, a lyrical tour de force that quivers with deeply felt impressions and emotions. Though she remembers, and at times longs for the sights and sounds of her hometown, her native ‘C’, as it were, she also feels an overwhelming kinship with the wintry shadowland that cocoons her …

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Five principles integral to better schooling systems

Doing the 'write' thing

Doing the 'write' thing

Doing the 'write' thing

The world of romcom queen Nora Ephron is a tonic for times like these

Sometimes cinema can be closer to poetry than prose: Payal Kapadia on 'All We Imagine...'

Shortlist for the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature Unveiled: A Glimpse into the World of Words

A Tapestry of Sylvia Plath: Exploring Her Literary Legacy Through New Anthology

Poetry is all about getting close to emotions: Performance poet Megha Rao

Bestsellers by machine

Weaving the personal and the political during the tumultuous 1970s

The color purple: It’s a new movie and an old hue that’s rich in meaning and history

Book Review: ‘I Would Meet You Anywhere’ is a breathtaking account of an adoptee’s search for family

Jon Fosse | Master of mystic realism

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse

The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway’s Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence

Witerati: Prose and Cons of AI slavery

Cowboy with a killer phrase: the wild life and dazzling prose of Cormac McCarthy

Appreciation: I thought I was done with Cormac McCarthy, but he wasn’t done with me

Books of the Month: From Shy by Max Porter to Michael Frayn’s memoir

Oseman Announced Recipient Of Medal for Fiction, Rushdie Gets Medal for Prose At Hay Festival

Just because an artist is problematic, doesn’t mean we should cancel their art

Review of Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song: 60 years on, the singer-songwriter continues to delight with his wit and liquid prose

Book Review | An unconventional debut that still misses the plot