There was a time when scholars argued there was no such thing as Australian literature, but with home-grown literary bestsellers, the destiny of Australia’s literary scene is changing for the better.
The Chicago Tribune has announced that it will be offering subscribers a new Sunday books section as a piece of premium paid content. The Tribune compares its model to cable TV subscriptions, which encourage users to sign up to a basic package and then pay for extra premium channels. The question is, will it work?
The American Library Assn. announced the 2012 winners of its annual Newbery, Caldecott, Printz and other awards Monday in Dallas. The awards are given to authors and illustrators of books, audio books and videos for children and young adults.
Vladimir Putin wants to establish a hundred book “Russian Canon” that’s more rigid and purpose-driven than the Western Canon . . . but others fear that texts from the likes of Dostoyevsky or Solzhenitsyn will be sacrificed for “Soviet-era schlock” literature.
Bigotry. Intolerance. Censorship. Not words that you would normally associate with a literature festival, let alone one taking place in what is considered the world’s largest democracy, and yet Salaman Rushdie was banned at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India.
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Egya Sule, a poet and a literary critic teaching at the University of Abuja, Sule , criticizes the Nigeria Prize for Literature for not helping African writers, and publicly states that fellow African writer, Chinua Achebe, is overrated.
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