Literature

Istanbul is rich in terms of museums, but only now are the families of deceased artists beginning to open museum houses to create a bridge between the public and their literary and artistic heroes The houses of notable Turkish figures who have left their mark on Turkey's history are increasingly being turned into museums for visitors interested in gaining a different perspective on event

BELGRADE - The piece for soprano and piano titled "Trag" (Trace), composed by Ana Krstajic, has triumphed in the Ithaca Women's Works Young Composer Competition.

Belgrade Irish Festival to be held March 13-22

BELGRADE -- The Belgrade Irish Festival (BIF) will be held at several locations from March 13 until March 22, the event's organizers have announced.

The event's slogan, "Beo-grad, Zeleni-grad" ("White-City, Green-City"), refers to the capital's name in Serbian (Beograd).

Two sisters in Turkey?s western province of ?zmir have surrendered to police and confessed to killing the boyfriend of one of them.

The sisters, identified only by the initials H.D. and G.D., killed H.D.?s 33-year-old bartender boyfriend Ferit Demir on March 4, before surrendering to police the following day.

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami says he regrets that Hong Kong's democracy protests did not bring the changes demanded by demonstrators, but their actions were not in vain.
      

I have a daily Hürriyet Saturday supplement from 2003. A photo of Ya?ar Kemal is smiling at me. The title of the interview is this: ??nce Memed is 50 years old, his novel that upgraded Ya?ar Kemal from the stove-heated house.?

She was married to rocker Benji Madden for less than two months. Cameron Diaz claims that sex plays an important part in her life. The 42-year-old actress, in an interview for Cosmopolitan magazine, said: “Having sex is healthy, and we should do it for various reasons”.

Cameron also spoke of the hard work she puts into her body: “It is extremely important to work out.”

50 Shades of Grey, easily the most hyped film of the year so far, made its worldwide theatrical release last month to mixed reviews by both critics and the audience.

The death of each good writer and good friend is like the death of some part of you.
This is what I felt with the passing of Ya?ar Kemal.

When you come to know intimately a writer from all of his books you have read, you come to know his human side not just his literary side. He was an example of being a writer of people; he was my life?s only people?s hero.

British actress Felicity Jones, who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "The Theory of Everything," will come to Istanbul. She will star in Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's latest novel "Inferno" as Sienna Brooks. The film will be shot in Florence and Istanbul.