Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and scholar Sinan Antoon speaks about the necessity of telling the stories of people whose lives have been torn apart by war
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Zimbabwean writer Farai Mudzingwa the author of the novel Avenues by Train (Cassava Republic Press, 2023) and his work has appeared in The Johannesburg Review of Books, Africa Is A Country, Kwani? and Short Story Day Africa, among other publications and anthologies shares his anthology of war.
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Poet, author and translator Maya Dimerli was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She is currently head of the ‘Odessa UNESCO City of Literature’ Office. Dimerli spoke to Vineetha Mokkil about life during wartime and helping others to write while war rages on in Ukraine. Excerpts
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Barring a few exceptions, Hollywood movies continue to be gung-ho about the United States’ penchant for waging wars across the globe
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Literature is at times powerless in the face of reality's obscenity, says Ramy Al-Asheq, Palestinian-Syrian-German poet, journalist and cultural figure based in Berlin, Germany
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War correspondent Janine di Giovanni who has covered almost every major armed conflict worldwide since the 1990s speaks to Outlook about the importance of documenting the 'small voices' when reporting on war.
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As the war in Ukraine stretches on, Oleg Suslov describes how people in Ukraine now “live inside the war” and his reasons for continuing to write and report about it.
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Books, comics and webtoons by Korean writers and creators—Indian enthusiasts welcome them all
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Chandni Chowk, the ‘Moonlight Square’. Shahjahan’s daughter Jahanara Begum had conjured up a marketplace that had room for beauty and commerce—a rarity in Mughal times, a rarity in our time too.
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Joe Sacco had gone to Palestine hoping to write a travelogue, but his reporter’s instincts kicked in once he started travelling. When he went back home to the US, he wrote and drew 'Palestine', a nine-part comics series, which won the National Book Award in 1996.
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