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Nine years after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan, 66, shows no sign of letting up in his pursuit of crafting great stories, remaining a passionate storyteller as energetic as he was three decades ago. As one of China’s most accomplished contemporary writers, Mo Yan has generated tons of novels that are widely […]

Two of the three books in Dame Hilary’s Wolf Hall trilogy won the Booker Prize Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009’s Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro said self-censorship was “a dangerous state of affairs” Young authors may be self-censoring because they worry they will be “trolled” or “cancelled”, according to celebrated writer Sir Kazuo Ishiguro. Sir Kazuo, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, warned that a “climate of fear” was preventing some people from writing

Writer Margaret Atwood attends the 2019 NYWIFT Muse Awards at the New York Hilton Midtown on December 10, 2019 in New York City. The 83-year-old Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is a keen observer of life. “Storytelling is what human beings do. And every single person you will ever meet has got ‘a story of my

CNN — Famed author Salman Rushdie is recovering at a hospital after he was repeatedly stabbed on stage Friday in front of a New York audience in an attack that left him with severe injuries, his family said. The family of the 75-year-old author – who has for decades lived under threat because of his writings – said he

Milan Kundera was a fierce critic of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and his books were banned there for years Milan Kundera, one of the biggest names in European literature in recent decades, has died in Paris aged 94. His best-known work was his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Anna Mrazova, a spokeswoman

Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been hospitalized in Madrid with Covid-19, his son said Monday. “In light of the interest by the news media in our father’s health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19,” Alvaro Vargas Llosa tweeted on behalf of himself and his siblings, Gonzalo

Author Jerry Jenkins, whose “Left Behind” novels sold more than 80 million copies, goes back to biblical themes with “Dead Sea Conspiracy,” releasing Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (Image courtesy of Jerry Jenkins Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the megaselling “Left Behind” series of apocalyptic novels, expresses a firm belief in his evangelical faith — and in