I was a reader in a family of runners. With pre-teen grumbles, I reluctantly participated in summer track leagues, always bringing up the rear, always slowing things down, until one day under the blazing Tennessee sun I got my legs moving and earned my first ribbon. My dad puffed me up saying, “You were so…

Love for literature and books brings together people from all walks of life at the Jaipur Literature Festival every year. At the festival’s 2024 edition, The Quint speaks to the programming team to bring forth their stories and the tales of working behind the scenes for months, culminating into a five-day event.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The African American Children’s Book Fair, one of the oldest and largest literary events dedicated to Black literature and creators, is back at the Pennsylvania Convention Center this year. The free event has…

2 February 2024   Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Grace Yee has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs). The winners in each category are: Victorian Prize for Literature ($100,000) Chinese Fish (Grace Ye, Giramondo) Fiction ($25,000) Nonfiction ($25,000)…

He insisted that there were no morals to be found in the murder of six million Jews, nor was language itself capable of fully describing it. Lawrence L. Langer, a literary scholar whose unblinking assessment of the Holocaust as an event so vast and evil that it defies moral framing helped deepen scholarly and popular…

Romantic novels have always held a special place in the world of literature. We always resort to these novels whenever we want a sweet escape from our normal lives, as we delve into the feelings, hopes, and dreams of the characters, we live in their stories as if they are our own.    And since…

The 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) got off to a colourful start in Jaipur on February 1 with a call to promote “literary tourism”, which will boost the economy, widen people’s horizons and support a wide range of genres, languages and cultures. Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari inaugurated the five-day event.…

Cairo International Book Fair CAIRO – 1 February 2024: The International Hall of the Cairo International Book Fair hosted a discussion session on “Chinese Literature on the World Map: Experience and Ambition”, in which a group of Chinese writers and poets spoke, including the Chinese poet and novelist “Chao Li Hong”, Vice President of the…