Tishani Doshi’s most recent books are A God at the Door, Girls are Coming Out of the Woods (shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for poetry), and a novel, Small D ...

Novelist Elif Shafak has been elected president of Britain’s Royal Society of Literature (RSL) after a vote at the society’s ...

Elif Shafak steps into the RSL presidency with a vision shaped by fellowship, empathy and artistic unity, marking a powerful ...

Rahul Bhattacharya discusses his novel "Rail Song," exploring themes of identity and modernity in post-Independence India at ...

Together the bar staff read Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, taking scenes and characters from the book and trying ...

In short, it’s a masterpiece that should win the Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer his second Man Booker Prize. He took one home in 1992 for The English Patient. It’s a sly masterpiece, in a sense, ...

“Gamini rarely saw himself from the point of view of a stranger. Though most people knew who he was, he felt he was invisible to those around him.” -Michael Ondaatje In this recording, Michael ...

A Good Read: Tony Parsons and Olly Mann talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert Exploring the lives of Beiruti women and Ceridwen Dovey A Good Read: Juno Dawson & Pandora Sykes A Good Read: Loyd ...

A Dessert and Drinks Reception follows the Award Ceremony at 8:30pm on the Ground Level Patio Area of the Busch Student Center. Cost $50. REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THE RECEPTION ST. LOUIS (May 2, ...

The work is a distillation of recollections. Lovers, landscapes, friends, books. In one poem Ondaatje enfolds four etched-in-memory names of his mates from his 17th year, a tight posse of monikers ...

Michael Ondaatje, left, Brandi Morin, middle, and Ian Williams, right, are among the Canadians featured at TIFA 2024. (Daniel Mordzinski, The Writers' Union of Canada, Justin Morris) The Toronto ...