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Tag: Writing and Writers
Women Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize
Novels by Olga Tokarczuk, Mieko Kawakami and Claudia Piñeiro are in the running for the prestigious award for translated fiction.
Torrey Peters’s Inspirations
The author of “Detransition, Baby” on Scandinavian literature and croissants.
Margaret Atwood on National Myths and the Roots of Totalitarianism
The Canadian author, whose dystopian novels fit with how many people feel about this moment, spoke on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar
Ihor Kalynets, 83, spent a lifetime resisting Soviet domination. Now, he says, he’s not going anywhere.
An Author Wrote About Her Sister’s Murder. It Led to a Breakthrough.
Cristina Rivera Garza wanted to shed light on the life of her sister, killed 30 years ago. Her book, part of a larger call for justice by women in Mexico, helped locate the suspect.
An Urgent Mission for Literary Translators: Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the West
A wartime effort to quickly translate work by Ukrainian novelists, poets and historians is underway — a project as political as it is cultural, authors and translators say.
A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About
Andrey Kurkov wrote about fighting between Russia and Ukraine long before Thursday’s invasion. But now, more than ever, he wants to explain it to the world.
Iraj Pezeshkzad, Author of Classic Iranian Novel, Dies at 94
The satirical “My Uncle Napoleon” became a cultural touchstone that held up a mirror to his country, before the 1979 revolution sent the author into exile in Paris.
Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
Young Black Brazilians are publishing on their own terms, achieving the critical and commercial success that eluded past generations of writers from marginalized communities.