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...
Category : Culture
Ed Sheeran: I wish I wasn’t on 40th-anniversary version of Band Aid
Singer says his ‘understanding of the narrative’ around Do They Know It’s Christmas? has changed since 2014 appearance Ed Sheeran has said he would rather...
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...
UK court sides with Icelandic firm over artist’s spoof corruption apology
Judge considering complaint by fishing firm Samherji rules artist Odee unlikely to be able to defend work as parody The property rights of Iceland’s largest...
Netflix adapts Pedro Páramo, the great Mexican novel that inspired Márquez
New film of Juan Rulfo’s revered novel, considered founding text of magic realism, is first film adaptation in half a century “I came to Comala...
Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29
Sierra Leone-born DePrince, who moved to US as a child, danced with Boston Ballet and performed with Beyoncé Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a trailblazer and inspiration...
Macklemore cancels Dubai show to protest UAE role in Sudan civil war
US rapper says he will not perform in United Arab Emirates until it ‘stops arming’ the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, where thousands have been...
Corey Yuen, martial arts director and Jet Li collaborator, died in 2022, Hong Kong film federation confirms
Film-maker who directed films starring Li, Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh and later worked as a Hollywood fight coordinator, died during the Covid pandemic two...
Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72
Nicknamed the ‘Elegant Stallion’, the revered star died after performing at a private party in Lagos Onyeka Onwenu, the singer, actor, broadcaster and activist whose...
Chinese artefacts in repatriation row were ‘given willingly’ to British Museum
Amid calls to return antiquities, historian finds documents that reveal many were not result of imperial plunder The British Museum boasts one of the biggest...
