Literary

Noughts & Crosses author Malorie Blackman has become the first children’s and YA writer to be awarded the PEN Pinter prize.The prize is given by English PEN annually to a writer of “outstanding literary merit” who is based in the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth. The recipient must also, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel prize, cast an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze on the world and show a “fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”.Blackman was chosen by judges…

For many of us, books are an important part of our lives – but do we want them to change our ideas about how to live? Is there a danger that living alongside fictional narrators will make us too reckless? This may be the case especially when it comes to marriage, given that so many great novels are about adultery.Recently, “bibliomemoirs” have offered a medium in which to think through the relationship between reading and living. Rebecca Mead has charted her changing relationship with Middlemarch; Sophie Ratcliffe…

via Netflix Film fans can talk all day about the lack of creativity and originality on display, but you’ve got to hand it to the team behind Ben & Jody, who at least took a pre-existing concept and managed to evolve it into something new, fresh, and exciting. Based on the novel of the same name by Dewi Lestari, 2015 drama Filosofi Kopi followed Chicco Jerikho’s Ben and Rio Dewanto’s Jody as they dealt with the trials and tribulations that come with running a coffee shop they inherited that came riddled with…

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canada Books Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Indian in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power is one of four books on the list for the new annual Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Publishing date: Oct 13, 2021  •  October 13, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Join the conversation Former Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press/File Article content Former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s memoir of policy-making in the…

The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 will be announced this month. A few weeks back, when the shortlist was announced, several media reports celebrated the fact that women authors formed a majority on that list. News reports with headlines such as 'Women Writers Dominate 2018 Man Booker Prize Shortlist' and 'Anna Burns, Esi Edugyan Among Four Women Shortlisted For Man Booker 2018' did the rounds on the Internet, and for a moment, there was a glimmer of happiness that finally, one of the top literary prizes of the…