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17th century illustration for epic poem Mahabharata

Type: Feature
Date: 08 Jun 2022

What’s on my bookshelf: Geetanjali Shree

The writer of the first Hindi book on the International Booker Prize list reveals the books that have inspired her career.

Type: Feature
Date: 25 May 2022

What’s on my bookshelf: Daisy Rockwell

The linguist tells us about the books that have shaped her formidable career.

Type: Author

Florence Ransom

Florence Ransom is a critically acclaimed English author, best known for her Booker Prize-winning novel Pennant Days.

Type: Author

A. B. Yehoshua

Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist and playwright

Type: Author

John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic and literary critic

Type: Author

Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist and essayist

Type: Author

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist, writer and professor

Type: Author

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature

Type: Author

Stanislaw Lem

Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology and literary criticism

Type: Author

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera was a Czech writer, best known for his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being