“Wars are won by teachers.” –Vladimir Putin * In a prescient 1995 address at Howard University titled “Racism and Fascism,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison warned of forces within the United States “interested in fascist solutions to national problems.” These fascist solutions,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-16 08:56:32 UTC ]
Welcome to the shiny new version of Best of Book Riot! Who doesn’t love a glow-up? 💔 Nobel Prize-winning author ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-15 15:31:13 UTC ]
She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, with the Academy saying she could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-14 16:57:50 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-14 16:13:08 UTC ]
Earlier this month, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres was banned from the Iowa City Schools. Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 17 novels, two collections of short fiction, five nonfiction books, and eight books for young adults. She spoke to The Little Hawk, the student newspaper of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-19 09:59:29 UTC ]
In a video address to the Munich Literature Festival yesterday, the human rights activist and Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy made a powerful speech in solidarity with the Gazan people, and with the millions around the world marching for a ceasefire. Roy—who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-17 17:42:49 UTC ]
The prize-winning novelist’s lyrics, written for US jazz singer Stacey Kent, will be published with illustrations next MarchA collection of lyrics written by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro for the American jazz singer Stacey Kent is due to be published next year.“I’ve built a reputation over the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-09-14 15:03:01 UTC ]
If you're new to the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver, these three reads are an ideal entry point into her work. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-11 10:31:00 UTC ]
Michael Chabon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union—spent his Covid quarantine taking a trip…through time! Well, not literally, but in an emotional and curatorial sense, the speculative fiction maestro... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-04 16:04:28 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2023-06-16 17:42:27 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy has died of natural causes in his Sante Fe home at the age of 89. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-06-13 20:12:27 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds that enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his representative confirmed to CBC... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-06-13 20:01:40 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is just one of many artists from Appalachia who are probing the crisis in their work, while taking pains to ensure that it doesn’t define the region and its people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2023-05-17 12:40:39 UTC ]
Illustration by Krishna Bala Shenoi. Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. It’s a podcast where people sound like people. New episodes air every Sunday, distributed by Pushkin Industries. * In this episode from May 2022,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-25 08:53:29 UTC ]
Kenzaburō Ōe, the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist known for his fiction addressing social and political issues, has passed away at 88. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-03-13 16:17:07 UTC ]
In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding reimagines the history of a small mixed-race community’s devastating eviction from their homes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-01-24 10:00:17 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on Jan. 26 to discuss his newest book, "Rough Sleepers.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-11 20:26:55 UTC ]
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into itBooker prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka has asked people not to circulate pirated versions of his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-21 13:11:21 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-09-30 13:09:07 UTC ]
The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-09-24 00:46:55 UTC ]