Your ads will be inserted here byEasy AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page to paste your ad code. A necklace reportedly worth 1.9m euros (£1.6m) has been stolen during the Cannes film festival, in the second such theft to hit this year’s event. The expensive piece by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono vanished after a [...]
Your ads will be inserted here byEasy AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page to paste your ad code. A book written entirely in verse is one of three debut novels to be shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber is up against The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin [...]
American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her “achievement in fiction on the world stage”. She beat nine other nominees to take home the £60,000 biennial award. Judge Prof Sir Christopher Ricks said Davis’s stories “fling their lithe arms wide to embrace many a kind.” The award recognises an [...]
As celebrated author, Chinua Achebe’s final burial rites hold this week, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in this exclusive interview with Sahara Reporters paid tribute to the famous author but says he(Achebe) is not the father of African literature. Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, also spoke on his personal relationship with Achebe [...]
Trevor Bolder, bassist in David Bowie’s 1970s backing band Spiders From Mars, has died from cancer at the age of 62. In a statement, Bowie remembered him as “a wonderful musician” who had been “a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with”. His death was announced by rock band Uriah Heep, who called [...]
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