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The author of Queenie (2019) discusses reclaiming voice, honouring her aunt’s memory and resisting white literary tradition ...
During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.
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Nowadays, it would be almost unthinkable that a woman would have to disguise her gender in order to become a published author, but sadly this was not always the case. Thankfully, many women broke ...
The onetime San Antonian is considered a contemporary master of the western novel and was greatly influenced by living in rural Texas.
The Association of Nigerian Author (ANA) has opened call for application to its maiden edition of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Residency ...
Chinese women face fines and jail for publishing homoerotic fiction online. Crackdown targets LGBTQ+ expression and feminism ...
Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela has won the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize. Her works delve into migration, faith, and ...
Aboulela will formally receive the prize at a ceremony on October 10 at the British Library, where she will also announce the ...
The Chinese police have detained dozens of writers in recent months. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes ...
Jane Lazarre, author of 'The Mother Knot', dies at 81. Her bold, honest memoirs reshaped how we see motherhood, identity, and ...
I devoted this column to Ngugi wa Thiong’O, the late gifted Kenyan writer and critic who left our world in the United States ...