Lakshmi Nandan Bora. File
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He was the first to be awarded a doctoral degree in meteorology by the Andhra University
Noted Assamese litterateur and Padma Shri awardee Lakshmi Nandan Bora passed away at a private hospital in Guwahati on Thursday. He was 91.
Suffering from ailments associated with old age, he was admitted to the hospital more than a week ago after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mourned the death of the writer whose novel
Patal Bhairavi fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.
“His death has left a void in the Assamese literary world,” former Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said.
More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author, and very much in line with the present. The Man Who Lived Underground , a short novel written.
Philip Roth 2002 (Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM)
The reviews of Blake Bailey’s
Philip Roth: The Biography have been pouring out on both sides of the Atlantic. What is striking is how badly written the British ones have been and how smart the American ones are. What makes the British reviews so much worse?
First, the bizarre omissions. Tim Adams’s review in
The Observer of Bailey’s biography doesn’t use the words “Jew” or “Jewish” once. This is extraordinary. Not only was Roth Jewish, he wrote constantly about Jews, from Anne Frank and Kafka to his own fictional characters Portnoy and Zuckerman. Roth couldn’t have been more Jewish. It’s not just the Jewish subject matter. Above all, it’s the voice, that distinctive mix of high and low, funny and serious. “If Yahweh wanted me to be calm,” he writes in
West London is set to welcome new festival
Waterworks this summer.
The one day event was due to launch in 2020, a combination of the teams behind Percolate and Love International; alas, the pandemic intervened, and those plans were re-written.
As a result, Waterworks will now launch on September 25th at Gunnersbury Park, featuring a diverse, action-packed line up.
There s a twist, too: there are no headliners here, with organisers aiming to place equal attention on each aspect of the carefully curated bill.
So, expect sets from: Midland, Call Super, Eris Drew, FAUZIA, Novelist, Objekt, Krywald & Farrer, Body Hammer, Call Super and Saoirse.