0531 GMT March 07, 2021
|
Astan Quds Razavi published the book, ‘The 40-Year Ascent: A Review of the 40-Year Achievements of the Islamic Revolution based on International Statistics’.
|
|
Arts & Culture Desk
|
|
Bhanu Kapil won the most valuable award in British poetry, the T.S. Eliot prize, for her “radical and arresting” collection, ‘How to Wash a Heart,’ in which she depicts the uncomfortable dynamics between an immigrant and her white, middle-class host.
|
|
Arts & Culture Desk
|
|
Compiled from Dispatches
|
|
Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.
|
|
Arts & Culture Desk
|
|
Arts & Culture Desk
|
|
Compiled from Dispatches
|
|
For the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary chose not to name a word of the year, describing 2020 as “a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single word”. Instead, from “unmute” to “mail-in”, and from “coronavirus” to “lockdown”, the eminent reference work has announced its “words of an ‘unprecedented’ year”.
|
|
Arts & Culture Desk
|
|
A pensioner has proved that you don’t need to be the fastest with your fingers to create something you’re proud of.
|
|
‘The Heart of the Iranians,’ a book written by the prominent Japanese Iranologist Emiko Okada was reprinted by a Japanese publication for the second time.
|
|
People have “rediscovered the pleasure of reading” in lockdown, publisher Bloomsbury said, after reporting its best half-year profits since 2008.
|
|
The proportion of authors of color writing for young adults (YA) in the UK has more than doubled in the last two years.
|