Apr 29 2024
This day in history we feature Jules Verne. He was a French novelist, poet, and playwright, born on this day in 1828. Trivia – Jules Verne Jules Verne collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the […]
London: A batch of English writer Charles Dickens’s letters that have remained unseen and unpublished will go on display later today. The 11 letters include assorted invitation notes and insights into the author’s reading habits and writing projects as well as […]
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in between cultures and continents.” Gurnah was born in Tanzania […]
