Search Results by tag: India

Two views of Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize“winning author of The God of Small Things, has been in the news recently for her outspoken comments about Kashmiri secession from India. Last week, rumours began circulating that the author ... Read More »

November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Portrait of David Davidar as a young man

By Scott MacDonald

While researching the ongoing David Davidar sexual harassment scandal, Q&Q came across an archival newspaper column written by one of his former mentors, the late Indian poet and columnist Dom Moraes. The piece, written in ... Read More »

June 16, 2010 | Filed under: Industry news

UPDATED: David Davidar to leave Penguin

By Scott MacDonald

Penguin Canada president David Davidar “ who took over the firm in fall 2003 and has been widely credited with returning it to good health “ will soon be leaving the company and returning to ... Read More »

June 8, 2010 | Filed under: Industry news

Atwood takes home (half a) million-dollar prize

By Laura Godfrey

Margaret Atwood has won the Dan David Prize for Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century. The Canadian author will share the $1 million (U.S.) prize with Indian author Amitav Ghosh, and each winner will share ... Read More »

March 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

By Steven W. Beattie

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant five days, but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974 interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from across the Web: Test your celebrity poet knowledge over at Details and guess which verses have been written by Michael Jackson, Mr. Spock, Jewel, or William Butler Yeats Battle of the sexes, poetry ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Salman Rushdie: still banned, still a ladies’ man

By Nathan Whitlock

Given that the Man Booker shortlist has just been announced, and talk of the Bookers often brings to mind author Salman Rushdie, it'd be interesting to know what he's up to these days. Well, there's ... Read More »

September 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: sex scandals, meth rings, and Lemony Snicket

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The catalogue pages for disgraced U.S. Governor Mark "Appalachia by way of Argentina" Sanford's (cancelled) book Meth ring uses rare comic books to launder drug money (I knew there was something wrong ... Read More »

August 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: historical vampires, Nabokov’s last work, and forgotten Pulitzers

By Eric Emin Wood

Sundry links from around the Web: The New York Times looks at established authors who write well into old age. The co-author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies announces his next book: Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter. ... Read More »

April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Man Booker also-ran Sebastian Barry “entitled to be disappointed” … says Booker juror