Today we look at stories from 2021 that didn’t receive as much attention as they deserved.
Tag: Books and Literature
Reveling in the Joys of Books, and Reading, at a Baghdad Book Fair
Iraq is home to literary traditions ancient and modern, and to legions of avid readers who find a new book more meaningful to them than a new government.
Marie-Claire Blais, Acclaimed French Canadian Novelist, Dies at 82
Though largely unknown outside Canada, she was often ranked alongside Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro as one of the country’s greatest living writers.
Laszlo Z. Bito, Scientist, Novelist and Philanthropist, Dies at 87
He fled communist rule in Hungary, discovered a treatment for glaucoma in the U.S., then became an author and a voice against authoritarianism in his homeland.
Jakucho Setouchi, 99, Dies; Buddhist Priest Wrote of Sex and Love
Her more than 400 novels often drew on her own romantic affairs, and her translation of an 11th-century romantic Japanese classic sold millions of copies.
Coffee or Chai? At 2 Kolkata Cafes, ‘Adda’ Is What’s Really on the Menu
Unrestricted talk, or “adda,” is the main draw at two storied cafes that are at once museums to the city’s intellectual history — and places for debate.
Deep Underground, a Chinese Miner Discovered Poetry in the Toil
Chen Nianxi has risen to fame as a “migrant worker poet,” adding the voice of China’s often-invisible laborers to the cultural conversation.
Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
The novelist, shortlisted for two of his previous books, received one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for his cutting depiction of a white family in post-apartheid South Africa.
‘Dune’ May Be Set in a Distant Time and Place, but the Film Has Canadian Roots
A science fiction opus was heavily guided by Canadian talent, starting with the director, Denis Villeneuve, who lives in Montreal.
The Canadians Behind ‘Dune’
A science fiction opus was heavily guided by Canadian talent, starting with the director, Denis Villeneuve, who lives in Montreal.