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Ishiguro left Japan when he was five and moved to Britain, only returning to visit his native land as an adult three decades later. (Photo: AP)

Japan sees a surge in demand for Ishiguro's books

Japan had been pinning its hopes on novelist Haruki Murakami to win Nobel Prize but eagerly claimed link to winner with...

6 Oct 2017 10:49 AM IST

Renowned novelist and playwright Kiran Nagarkar passed away at the age of 77 after a brief illness here at a hospital on Thursday. (Photo: ANI)

Renowned author, playwright Kiran Nagarkar passes away at 77 in Mumbai

Nagarkar, who was born in Mumbai in 1942, published his first novel, 'Saat Sakkam Trechalis', in Marathi in 1974 at the...

6 Sept 2019 8:23 AM IST

the 2003 National Book Awards recipients from left to right, C.K. Williams for Poetry, Shirley Hazzard for Fiction, Polly Horvath for Young Peoples Literature and Carlos Eire for Non Fiction, in New York City.

Australian novelist, Shirley Hazzard, dies at 85

The novelist had been in failing health and died Monday at her home in Manhattan

14 Dec 2016 10:33 AM IST