Writers

"Time Shelter" (Vremeubezhishte) by Georgi Gospodinov has entered the long list of nominations for the most prestigious international award given for a specific literary work, reported "Janet 45" - the Bulgarian publisher of the novel. The book was translated by the American Angela Rodel, who also became part of the nomination for the international "Booker".

Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.

"He died of old age in the early hours of March 3," publisher Kodansha said in a statement yesterday, adding that a family funeral has already been held.

American author Paul Auster, whose stylistic novels about outsiders and down-and-outers brought him fame, is suffering from cancer, his wife said on March 11.

Auster, 76, is being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, his wife and fellow writer Siri Hustvedt posted on Instagram.

Celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami will release his first new novel in six years this April, publisher Shinchosha announced on Feb. 1.

There was little detail given about the new work, which will be Murakami's first novel since "Killing Commendatore" was published in February 2017.

Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik's take on Maxim Gorky's play Children of the Sun, staged at the German theatre Schauspielhaus Bochum, has made a list of ten remarkable productions from the last season in German-speaking theatre. A panel of critics applauded her work as highly topical.

Victor Davis Hanson's views place him among the "contrarians" in the US academic establishment. A philhellene with deep knowledge of ancient Greece, he has been visiting the country regularly for the last five decades.

An opera commissioned from Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj by the Frankfurt Opera opened on 22 January to critical acclaim. His largest work yet, Blühen (Blossoming) also features Slovenian soprano Nika Gorič in the cast.

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and Man About Montecito, isn't one for book learning, he reminds readers of his new memoir, "Spare." And yet its pages are dappled with literary references, from John Steinbeck ("He kept it tight," the prince writes admiringly of "Of Mice and Men"); to William Faulkner, whose line from "Requiem for a Nun" about the past never being dead, nor even past, he discov

The popular U.S. novelist Paul Auster is turning his sights on America's epidemic of gun violence in a hard-hitting, 100-page essay that features photos from mass shootings.

"Bloodbath Nation" (Grove Press), published on Jan. 10 in the United States. The writing in this new work by Auster, 75, is terse and somber and is accompanied by pictures taken by photographer Spencer Ostrander.

An Italian man admitted on Jan. 6 to stealing more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts, including from distinguished authors, solving a mystery that had rocked the literary world for years.