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Doing the 'write' thing
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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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Doing the 'write' thing
2 weeks, 1 day 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 …

Doing the 'write' thing
2 weeks, 1 day 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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Sometimes cinema can be closer to poetry than prose: Payal Kapadia on 'All We Imagine...'
1 month, 2 weeks 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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A Tapestry of Sylvia Plath: Exploring Her Literary Legacy Through New Anthology
2 months 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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Weaving the personal and the political during the tumultuous 1970s
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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Jon Fosse | Master of mystic realism
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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Cowboy with a killer phrase: the wild life and dazzling prose of Cormac McCarthy
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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Books of the Month: From Shy by Max Porter to Michael Frayn’s memoir
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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Just because an artist is problematic, doesn’t mean we should cancel their art
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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India at 75 - Fiction
2 years, 4 months ago

India at 75 - Fiction

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 14, 2022 06:00 IST The Private Life of an Indian Prince Mulk Raj Anand Anand’s 1935 novel Untouchable established him as a pioneer of the Indian English novel alongside R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. The Cat and Shakespeare Raja Rao With his first novel, Kanthapura, Rao started the project of “convey in a language that is not …

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Review: The Juvenile Immigrant by Namrata Verghese
2 years, 5 months ago

Review: The Juvenile Immigrant by Namrata Verghese

Hindustan Times  

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. In her impressive collection of debut fiction shorts, The Juvenile Immigrant, Namrata Verghese identifies the cracks, the minute fissures that occur when the two separate worlds of ‘Indian’ and ‘American’ collide in the lives …

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Chinese literary master celebrated in Zhoushan with prose awards
3 years, 6 months ago

Chinese literary master celebrated in Zhoushan with prose awards

China Daily  

The prose of Taiwan writer San Mao occupies a special place in the hearts of readers, long after her death in 1991. To commemorate the great writer and her links with Dinghai, the district initiated the Sanmao Prose Award in 2016 with plans to build it into a cultural hallmark of Zhejiang. According to He Xuhua, director of the publicity …

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