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Was Chinua Achebe the “Father of African Literature?”

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Was Chinua Achebe truly ‘The Father of African Literature’ or does that designation serve a purely non-African agenda?

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SURVEY: Is Sexing Up Classic Lit a Step Too Far?

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Clandestine Classics adds explicit sex to novels by Jane Austen and others where none existed before. It is a cynical ploy to generate sales or just a bit of harmless fun?

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Egypt’s Ibrahim Issa on Reading and Writing After the Arab Spring

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Egyptian journalist and bestselling author Ibrahim Issa believes the Arab Spring has added religious oppression to the existing political hardships of the region.

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Is the World’s Largest Translator of German Literature in India?

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Seagull Books, based in Kolkata, India, is perhaps the world’s most prolific translator of German books into English in the world, says Deutsche Welle.

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Lebanese-Canadian Author Rawi Hage’s Winding Road to Success

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Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage, a featured speaker at this year’s Abu Dhabi Book Fair, discusses his long, transcontinental path to becoming a novelist.

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Ten Titles Up for €100,000 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

Ten Novels on IMPAC Shortlist

From a longlist of 154 titles, ten novels have been shortlisted and are in the running for the €100,000 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Shakespeare and Sexual Hypocrisy in Vienna!

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Publishing Perspectives’ epic examination of the complete plays of William Shakespeare, The Play’s the Thing, begins its reading of Measure for Measure. Join us.

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Women’s Prize for Fiction Gives Nod to Mantel, Zadie Smith

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The longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (the former Orange Prize) includes several A-list authors: Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver and AM Homes among others.

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The UK’s Literature Prize Becomes The Folio Prize, Valued at £40,000

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The Folio Society will sponsor the newly named Folio Prize, a literature award of £40,000 to honor the best English-language fiction published in the UK.

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Turkish Literature and Translation Trapped Between East and West

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Turkish writers have a love/hate relationship with the West, but the tension has resulted in a dynamic literary culture, one that can prove tricky to translate.

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