Tag: literature
Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack
"Victory City” is an "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city
Sri Lanka welcomes Booker win for novel on civil war
"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" is about a dead war photographer who in the afterlife seeks to expose the brutality of the conflict
Salman Rushdie in hospital as outrage grows over stabbing
Rushdie has been an outspoken advocate of freedom of speech
Pope Francis cites JRR Tolkien in essay on storytelling
Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has made reference to books such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov”
Saya at Pighati: Mga alaala kay F. Sionil Jose
Siguro, ganoon talaga, may mga magkakaibigan na nagkakasundo sa isang bagay at mayroon din namang hindi
Philippine literary giant F. Sionil Jose dies
In a 2019 interview with CNN Philippines, Jose said he wanted his epitaph to read: "He wrote stories and believed in them”
Bookworm Mother
Ang pagkawili ko sa pagbabasa ay naging tulay upang matunton ang isa ko pang nais—ang pagsulat.
Dante’s Divine Comedy to float among the stars
A copy of the entire Divine Comedy will be sent up into space and left there to float in the heavens among the stars
Ano bang aklat ang binabasa n’yo ngayon?
Parang may kinalaman ang kuwento ng The Heiress sa mga nagaganap ngayon sa lipunan: tila mambabarang ang mga troll, sumusunod sa 'Mamalarang'
Irish Catholic priest, Korea’s first foreign literary scholar, dies at 81
During his lifetime, Father O'Rourke translated more than 2,000 Korean literary works into English