An incredible lady who mixes the experiences of eight decades with a cultural heritage of several centuries.

“I want to show a character who is going through really difficult trials but tries to find the beauty in the chaos. It’s always better than giving up.”

Now you can read Ivanka Mogilska’s secrets, behind the glistering scenes: where, when, how and with whom did she write Sudden Streets?

How come that someone who used to rule and utilise the light suddenly experiences enlightenment and lets his previous life goals go? This is what I asked the novel’s writer about…

Susan Barker: “I was drawn to write about China because I have an ancestral connection to the country through my grandfather.”

Najeeb and Vivian escape to self-education and Qayyum to the Indian independence movement, all turning against a system ruled by white men… – A review of “A God in Every Stone” by Kamila Shamsie.

“One cannot work as a teacher if he doesn’t believe that everyone of the pupils are good and important and they should be given all possibilities to live a good life. Maybe it’s the same with writing: there aren’t good or bad characters.”

It´s an eternal debate these days who are the “real” refugees. Only those who flee from the war, or also those who live in extreme poverty?

Winston Groom worked as a journalist, served in Vietnam, and as a writer he won several awards and published more than twenty books – among them, Forrest Gump…

Katalin Ferber’s review on ‘Genesis’, the only new Hungarian film represented at this year’s Berlinale.

Forty-two firefighters were at the scene in less than two minutes and the fire was eliminated an hour later. Nobody was injured.

Cameron’s Norman Album has been placed under a temporary export bar by the arts minister, Michael Ellis.

The show at the World Museum came to Merseyside partly because of the popularity in China of Liverpool Football Club.

Mahoney’s manager, Paul Martino, said Mahoney died on Sunday in Chicago after a brief hospitalisation.

In a statement posted on Twitter, Simon described his retirement as a “natural end” to his performing career that felt “something of a relief.

Sherlock was invited to Los Angeles by American singer and producer Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic after he saw one of her videos on Instagram.

Richard Blair, who was adopted by Orwell six years before his death in 1950, will perform as the narrator in Beyond Wigan Pier.

The singer, who would have turned 75 on Saturday, died Thursday night in Chicago after suffering from a long illness.

Live Nation said the musician is “suffering from severe pain that has materially impacted her ability to perform live.

Tensions over the decision to allow US authors to enter the Man Booker prize have flared up yet again.

Author of The Handmaid’s Tale, has revealed that profits from the hugely successful 2017 TV series of her novel did not go to her, after having sold on the rights for a film adaptation almost three decades ago.

In the  photographs, the  plants, plant-pieces and  seeds, that  are stored in boxes and  locked behind metal fences, are hidden from the eyes of the world. Dénes Farkas’ solo exhibition, entitled Darkness Visible,

Stan Lee has been rushed to hospital after falling ill at his Los Angeles home.

“The statement you made this week about women in music needing to ‘step up’ was spectacularly wrong and insulting and, at its core, oblivious to the vast body of work created by and with women,” the letter says.