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The two Russian scammers, Fovan and Lexus, spoke to British writer Joan Rowling on behalf of Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky. The Russian newspaper "Life" reported that one of the pranksters presented himself during the…
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Indian writer Gitanjali Shri has won the International Booker Prize for her novel 'Sand Tomb'. This was announced Thursday, May 26, by the Irish translator, Frank Wayne, chair of the jury. The book tells the story of an 80-year-old…
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India’s literary world celebrated on Friday as Geetanjali Shree’s “Tomb of Sand” became the first book written in an Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. The prize is awarded annually to a book that has been…
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At first, readers of “In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat,” a book by Egyptian poet, translator and academic Iman Mersal, may take it as a straightforward biography. But as the book unfolds, it reveals its multiple layers, asking questions…
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On May 24, an exhibition entitled "Dostoevsky, Searching for Man" opened in the "Vrubel" Museum of Fine Arts in Omsk in Western Siberia. This is within the framework of the program "Dostoevsky and the Theater" which the Russian "Golden…
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While the Oscars don't take place for another few weeks, this year marks the 10th anniversary of perhaps the most infamous Oscar telecast, the 83rd Oscars hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway. The Academy hoped to inject some…
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Famous Turkish comedian and writer, Mojdet Gizan, who has been nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations, faces imprisonment for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a telephone interview with Agence…
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Moroccan novelist Abdel Wahid Estito launched an individual cultural initiative to encourage reading in the time of Corona, which consisted of dedicating his novel "Just a millimeter away" (or Zahrlisa) to an unknown readership in Tangiers.…
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Speaking to ET the writer/director called the decision "very, very, very, very messy," admonishing not the decision itself but the sudden rollout. "There's such controversy around it, because they didn't tell anyone," he said. …
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