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Acclaimed authors evaded by Nobel Prize

This article focuses on four highly admired authors from four different countries. Two of them are still alive

The moon shone on her face

The little girl I first saw in 1962 died last week. She was too young to die; and

Another bend in the river for Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipa-ul's novel, 'Half a Life,' is about the journey -- geographical and emotional -- of Willie

Things you should know about Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you've ever opened a book of Fyodor Dostoevsky's, you must have picked up that the man behind

Nurul and his notebook

Original : Muhammed Zafar IqbalEnglish translation: HaroonuzzamanOn my return to Dhaka, I became utterly dim-witted. Hardly

Childhood fantasy re-visits

In barber's revolving chair, the barber makes me seated and covers the upper part of my body by

How a novel became a classic

When Gabriel García Márquez's most famous novel was published 50 years ago,  it faced a difficult publishing climate

The inspiration behind Madeleine Thien's works

Madeleine Thien is a soft-spoken woman who needs lots of time alone and says she's no good at

Why did Henry Scobie commit suicide?

Graham Greene (1904 -1991), the British Nobel Laureate novelist wrote a number of remarkable novels of which The Heart

Liu Xiaobo's dying words for his wife

BEIJING - As Liu Xiaobo, China's most famous political prisoner, lay dying under police guard, he struggled to finish

Papa the investor

Ernest Hemingway had a rough time with his Italian publisher, Einaudi, the venerable Turin-based house that still prints

The British art market gears up for Brexit

Values in Victorian art have generally been downgraded since fashion swung to the modern. At Sotheby's Victorian sale

Tales of two heartbroken rhapsodists

By Mahfuz Ul Hasib Chowdhury

American poet Sylvia Plath was born on 27th October, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. Sylvia Plath was an outstanding