Literature

Kafka letters, drawings made publicly available online

An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling.

Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project's curator Stefan Litte told AFP.

Amin Maalouf to meet with Turkish readers

Institut Français Turkey will bring together the world's leading author Amin Maalouf with his Turkish readers in an online event.

Amin Maalouf, a contemporary Lebanese novelist whose books have been translated into more than 40 languages, will be attending the Literature Hall online event.

The event will take place on the Zoom platform on April 28.

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk pens plague story in new novel

Nobel prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has published his latest book, "Veba Geceleri" (Nights of Plague), in a timely arrival when the world can resonate with a plague outbreak on a fictional Ottoman island as it scrambles to end the unprecedented plague of the 21st century: The COVID-19 pandemic.

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