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Patrick French, the biographer of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, and Dean of the School of Art and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, passed away on Thursday in London, leaving behind his wife Meru Gokhale and four children.He was ...

He was 57 and suffering from cancer.Reac

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 was awarded to Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

Climate fiction literary genre slowly takes root in Africa, authors say it can convey climate threats on the continent

Dystopia, drought and hope? African cli-fi takes on climate crisis

In Monsters (Knopf, Apr.), book critic Dederer examines the complexities of loving art by problematic artists.

"Literature, in this regard, works to raise consciousness among people," said Umezurike, who is an assistant professor at Canada's Calgary University. "But how far any nation or its government is willing to go to stem the ultimate tsunami rests on its concerted intervention with private organisations." 'MORE REAL THAN GRAPHS' The Share Africa Cli-Fi Award - the first of its kind to be established and run on the continent - was launched last year by the Botswana ...

The charming portrait of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb opens Friday at the Belcourt

Raised in a Paris banlieue, the documentary-maker is now in the spotlight thanks to her Venice prize-winning first feature, based on the true story of a woman accused of killing her baby

Electricity and food were in scant supply, and a TV was an unimaginable novelty, but most people simply knuckled down and muddled through