Washington [US], August 15 (ANI): Padma Lakshmi, TV personality and former wife of Indian author Salman Rushdie, said that Rushdie is pulling through after Friday's nightmare and hoped that he heals swiftly following the stabbing incident that shocked the world.

Tehran [Iran], August 15 (ANI): Iran on Monday "categorically" denied any link with the attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie in the United States.

New York [US], August 14 (ANI): Zafar Rushdie, son of the renowned author Salman Rushdie, on Sunday said that his father remains in critical condition in hospital as he continues to receive extensive ongoing medical treatment.

Salman Rushdie may lose an eye and had severed nerves in his arm and liver, according to the author’s representative. His agent, Andrew Wylie, emailed him. At a literary event in New York, US, on Friday, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen. The author, who is... The post appeared first on .

Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ made history. It became the first Indian language book to win the Booker Prize. The book is a story of an 80-year-old woman in northern India. The original title of the book is ‘Ret Samadhi.’ While accepting the prize of GBP 50,000, Geetanjali said she would share it with the […]

Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for his wonderful work in ‘The Promise. Galut is the third South African novelist to win the award and after a gap of 20 years. 2021 Booker Prize announced Damon Galgut, a South African novelist won the prestigious prize on Wednesday. His book “The Promise,” is a story about […]

New Delhi Sep 28 PTI A new novel Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth released on Tuesday marks the return of Africas first Nobel laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka after a hiatus of almost 50 years publishing house Bloomsbury India announcedThe Nigerian novelist equally well-known for his poems plays and essays wrote his last novel Season of Anomy in 1973An unforgettable portrait of contemporary Nigeria Soyinkas latest work is both a gripping whodunit and a sharply satirical state-of-the-nation novelBristling with wit and rage in equal measure and delivered with an enormous generosity of spirit and a dazzling lightness of touch Wole Soyinka speaks truth to power as ever with a tour de force from a master storyteller at the height of his powers the publishers said in a statementSoyinka 87 became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 His first novel The Interpreters was published in 1965 He has also written three autobiographical volumes Ak The Years of Childhood sar A Voyage Around Essay and IbadanHis notable plays include The Jero Plays The Road The Lion and the Jewel Madmen and Specialists and From Zia With LoveChronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth has also been endorsed by the Booker-Prize winner Nigerian poet and novelist Ben OkriA vivid and wild romp A vast danse macabre No one else can write such a book Like Henry James like Conrad like Nabokov Chronicles is Soyinkas greatest novel It ought to be widely read said the author of The Famished Road about the book PTI MG MAH MAH