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The work of acclaimed Scots artist and writer Alasdair Gray is to be celebrated in the first ever Gray Day. It is hoped the event will become an annual commemoration of the life and work of one of Scotland’s most important cultural polymaths, Alasdair Gray. The first will take place on Thursday - marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of his seminal novel Lanark. Known faces including Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney and Ewen Bremner are set ...

Central Ohio has 20,000 undocumented immigrants working in essential jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, says to a study by advocacy group FWD.us.

You might not know it yet, and lock-down means your opportunity to explore it fully will be sadly limited when you do, but Thursday is the inaugural Gray Day, the first of what organisers hope will become a significant annual event celebrating the life, work and legacy of Alasdair Gray. The iconic author, illustrator, poet and artist died aged 85 in 2019 and the plan is for Gray Day eventually to assume the same stature as its sort-of-namesake, Bloomsday. Named for Leopold Bloom, the protag...

PUBLISHING Scotland has announced that its Translation Fund, designed to support international publishers with the translation of Scottish authors, has once again supported a brilliant array of authors and publishers. With the help of Creative Scotland, the publishing house has spent £23,000 on 15 international publishers to translate Scottish writing into German, Turkish, French, Danish, Italian, Arabic, Serbian, Macedonian, Hungarian and Portuguese. The website explains further: “Its...

Thames & Hudson to publish Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton. Foreword by Ali Smith. Published by Thames & Hudson, 20 May 2021 £25.00 hardback, 178 illustrations, 24.00 x 16.5cm, 288pp. LONDON .- Barbara Hepworth is now acknowledged as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. This compelling new biography, published on the occasion of a major retrospective opening at The Hepworth Wakefield, offers new insights into the re...

You may be cool, but are you Century Club cool? It’s time to meet more of the coolest readers in SouthCoast.  Each year, I challenge SouthCoasters to read 100 books to make my BookLovers Century Club. Reading 25-49 books would qualify you for the Quarter-Century Club, and 50-99 books, the Half-Century Club. We’ve met members of all tiers in recent weeks. If you missed your neighbors’ mention, or your own, follow me on Twitter and Facebook to catch up. (Print readers: both links are l...

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News LGBT+ History Month 2021 at Cambridge LGBT+ History Month events are happening across the University and Colleges throughout February, to raise awareness and advance education on matters affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. LGBT+ History Month is our opportunity to celebrate and reflect on our ongoing march towards equality and social justice. We highlight trailblazers and role models, and educate others and ourselves about queer history. D...

The books which are closest to my heart and which evoke a certain sense of otherworldly glee are the ones that are themselves odes to literature, reading, and writing. Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read (TLS Books, 2019) is one such book. It is a collection of critical essays and book reviews by Woolf which were published in the UK's Times Literary Supplement from

Kamila Shamsie and Nell Stevens to judge 2021 Goldsmiths Prize Fred D’Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”. Stevens, who won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award for Mrs Gaskell & Me and lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will chair the panel, comprising Shamsie as well as the poet, playwright and novelist Fred D’Aguiar, and the book critic and Home Fire, a modern-day retelling of the story of Sophocles’...