Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 19:56
Described by English writer-editor Ian Jack as the Jane Austen of India, award-winning novelist and screenplay writer Ruth Prawar Jhabvala was renowned for her evocative novels of the rainbow societies of 19-20th century India - two of which became successful films.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 08:51
Erotica as a genre of literature is still the flavour after the success of ‘50 Shades of Gray’, an erotic novel by British author E.L. James published in 2011.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 00:15
German-born screenwriter and novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the only person to win both an Oscar and a Booker prize and lived in Delhi for 25 years, died here today.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 20:47
‘The Wasp Factory’ fame Scottish writer Iain Banks has said he is suffering from terminal cancer and is "unlikely to live beyond a year".
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 09:32
The magic of a story told in 2,000 words in returning to the bookshelf in this age of reality television, Internet and short attention spans.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 16:28
Vishal Bhardwaj and Ekta Kapoor are now set to release a book titled ‘Daayan’.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 08:48
Filmmaker Sandip Ray says children are going back to reading books such as the detective series ‘Feluda’ created by his father Satyajit Ray.
Last Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013, 21:02
Amitabh Bachchan along with wife Jaya attended an event to celebrate the success of ‘The Shiva Trilogy’ and the megastar marvelled at author Amish Tripathi`s writing skills.
Last Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013, 20:44
Akhilesh Jaiswal, co-writer of ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, is making his directorial debut with ‘Mastram’, about a porn book author and says it is a "fictional biography".
Last Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013, 20:09
Stephenie Meyer, who has up till now written four successful `Twilight` novels that have been adapted to films, has let it slip that she is tired of writing about vampires for the time being.
Last Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013, 12:44
There is one unknown or perhaps, a lesser known truth about him: he was a mean businessman who made a lot of money by hoarding grain during the time of famine.
Last Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013, 10:51
The executive director of Latin content and programming for Billboard, Leila Cobo, has written a biography of the late Jenni Rivera.