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South Korean writer Han Kang awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
11 Oct 2024
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, who used her intense poetic prose to expose the fragility of human life through a narrative of historical traumas.
Literature Nobel: Olga Tokarczuk wins 2018 award, Peter Handke gets 2019 Prize
10 Oct 2019
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” while Austrian author Peter Handke has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”
Delhi HC dumps AJL’s plaint against eviction in National Herald case
01 Mar 2019
Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi acquired AJL using Congress funds and the property is currently being held as real estate in violation of the lease terms, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy stated in the case filed in 2012
Delhi HC orders Gandhi family-controlled AJL to vacate Herald House
21 Dec 2018
The court noted that the `dominant purpose' of publishing has been 'lost' after the premises changed hands to an entity called Young India, which is owned by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi
Iran throws open Book Garden, possibly world’s largest library
12 Jul 2017
For those who thought Iran was like some other Islamic countries that discourage literature and the arts, here’s an eye-opener: officials unveiled the Book Garden — possibly the world’s largest library — in a giant academic complex on Wednesday