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Eiko Kadono, the author behind Japan’s most famous - and almost certainly most beloved - literary witch, has a little trouble going up the stairs these days. At 91,...
Artificial intelligence is anathema to many authors. After all, what is writing if not a labour of love, the zenith of human expression? In the war against robots, it...
Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, witnessed the launch and signing of the Hindi edition of Prof. Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi’s book “His Highness...
When she isn’t working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas Stuart, or...
Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film 'Persepolis', has died aged 56, AFP learned on Thursday from a member of her...
Questions of identity, authorship and the changing portrayal of women in literature took centre stage at the Warsaw International Book Fair 2026, as Emirati writer and critic Dr Hind...
Elizabeth Strout found the hero of her latest novel, The Things We Never Say, in an unlikely place. Well, actually, her friend did. 'We've known each other forever, and...
Dubai-based publisher The Dreamwork Collective has launched a novel that explores faith, feminism and identity, through the eyes of a young Muslim woman, who lives a life she never...
British writer Len Deighton, who has died at 97, created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film “The Ipcress File”. Deighton “passed...
Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, says she doesn’t pay much attention to celebrities. With one key exception: that time she first met Gloria...
