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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...
Christina Applegate’s memoir is not a safe, prim thing. It’s raw and angry, lyrical and funny, and more than a bit dangerous — a lot like Christina Applegate. “My...
Have you read the one about the doctor with a double life writing globally bestselling thrillers? The twists of Freida McFadden’s career are not unlike the jaw-dropping plots of...
In an in-conversation session at the second edition of the Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL), acclaimed Rwandan author Scholastique Mukasonga recounted how the 1994 incident in Rwanda, and...
