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International Booker Prize interview: How Johnny Lorenz translated 'Crooked Plow'

Johnny Lorenz’s translation of Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Junior’s ‘Crooked Plow’ is shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.

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What is romantasy? And why is it the latest bestselling book trend?

The genre is wedded to the structure of the romance novel, often including the romantic happy ending, but it included fantastical elements and/or settings.

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'Circles of Freedom' tells a tight-paced story of Asaf Ali and friends during the national movement

The cast of TCA Raghavan’s book comprises not only an elite English-speaking crowd within the Congress, but also the context.

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'Shakchunni': A supernatural thriller about how the zamindari system crumbled under its own weight

Author Arnab Ray makes the choice of not modernising the story at all, and sets it in 1940s’ Bengal, when the Great Bengal Famine had just hit.

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'Speaking Sandals': Stories about sociological realities of 'untouchable' Madigas of Andhra Pradesh

Yendluri Sudhakar’s Telugu short stories, translated into English by K Purushotham, focus on injustices meted out on account of caste.

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Women's Prize for Fiction: A reader's guide to the six books on the 2024 shortlist

The winning author will receive a cash prize of £30,000 and the ‘Bessie’, a bronze statuette.

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Democracy: A new book questions whether the people (or the experts) are always right

An excerpt from ‘Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power’, by Erica Benner.

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'Be freed from what holds you back': Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library

An excerpt from ‘Poems Of the First Buddhist Women’, translated from the Pali by Charles Hallisey.

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Fiction: An ageing writer gets a mysterious letter which begins to colour his entire perception

An excerpt from ‘Yatra: An Unfinished Novel’, by Harekrishna Deka. Translated from the Assamese by Navamalati Neog Chakraborty.

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Parsi theatre: How female impersonators controlled the female body and its representation on stage

An excerpt from ‘Pure Entertainment: Parsi Theater, Gender, and Performance’, by Kathryn Hansen.

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