Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’ The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who...
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Holiday bookings to Japan are down – could a 90s manga comic’s earthquake prediction be to blame?
The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel by Ryo Tatsuki, declared a major disaster would occur on 5 July 2025 A grim prediction made...
Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94
Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss Ted Kotcheff, the prolific...
Macron says French-Algerian author under ‘arbitrary detention’ in Algeria
French president voices concern for health of Boualem Sansal, who is on hunger strike over his imprisonment The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said he...
Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel
Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh Two complaints have been filed in Algeria against...
Evaristos united: namesakes Bernardine and Conceição meet at book festival
Celebrated authors discuss the somewhat connected stories of their shared surname at literary event in Rio Born more than 5,500 miles apart, the Booker prize...
Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter
Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him...
Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88
The prolific actor appeared in more than 190 films and TV shows and was a vocal anti-war activist Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of...
‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage
Book prompts conflict over claims of Métis identity in eastern Canada where group doesn’t have a homeland or deep historic ties A graphic novel investigating...
Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown
Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism In sweltering mid-afternoon heat,...
