10 Jan 2013 10:24 |
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| Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." He died on 10th Jan1951. |
8 Jan 2013 9:37 |
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| Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was born on a day like this (8th Jan 1942). |
7 Jan 2013 9:22 |
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| René Guénon also known as Shaykh `Abd al-Wahid Yahya, was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, "sacred science" and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation. He died on 7th Jan 1951. |
29 Dec 2012 9:57 |
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| Rainer Maria Rilke, a Bohemian-Austrian poet who is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language, died on a day like this (28th Dec). |
28 Dec 2012 9:49 |
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| Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, professor, literary icon, and political activist who died on 28 December 2004. |
27 Dec 2012 14:15 |
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| ‘Love is Forbidden My Daughter’ shortlisted in the 18th Book for the Season Awards, ‘The Lost Rose’, ‘Outsider’, and poetry collection ‘Is Not’ are recently reprinted by Amout Publications. |
27 Dec 2012 10:37 |
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| Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam, a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union, died in a day like this on 27th December 1938. |
25 Dec 2012 9:06 |
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| Henry Miller, an American writer and painter who was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, was born on a day like this (26th Dec, 1891). |
24 Dec 2012 9:35 |
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| Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón, a spanish poet and a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956, was born in a day like this on 23rd December 1881. |
22 Dec 2012 16:07 |
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| Iran’s Shabaviz Publications won the Best Content Provider’s award supported the All India Conference Of Intellectuals (AICOI) on the final days of the 2012 year. |
22 Dec 2012 9:15 |
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| Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour. He died on 22nd December 1989. |
18 Dec 2012 14:42 |
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| The works by the charismatic Dr Ali Shariati still lure readers to buy them from fairs where they are being presented. Shariati’s works sparked a lot of interest among visitors of the 56th Beirut Arab International Book Fair. |
15 Dec 2012 11:27 |
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| A Danish researcher has stumbled across the first fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark's national archives. |
15 Dec 2012 11:07 |
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| Three Monsters, a book by David McKee which was rendered into Persian by Mahshid Mojtahed zadeh, has been released in Iran. |
12 Dec 2012 17:06 |
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| As it prepares to wrap up its 7th session for the year 2012/2013, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced its longlist of book titles for two of its categories; "Children's Literature" and "Translation". |
12 Dec 2012 15:26 |
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| The people of Malton have welcomed home a unique piece of the town’s Dickensian heritage after it was won in a nail-biting auction in New York. |
12 Dec 2012 12:24 |
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| South Korea has been named the London Book Fair 2014 Market Focus, with the announcement made at a launch event at Asia House in London on 11th December. |
11 Dec 2012 15:24 |
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| The Witches, a children's book by Roald Dahl, has been released in Iran. The book’s translator Mahboubeh Najaf- khani says that it is one of the most interesting works of Dahl. |
8 Dec 2012 15:25 |
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| Three debut novelists and a Nobel laureate are among the 15 writers to make the long list for Asia's most prestigious literary prize. |
8 Dec 2012 15:08 |
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| Charles Dickens' London home is the house which saw the conception of some of English literature’s most loved tales: the characters Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby were both born there. |
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