This day in history we feature Jules Verne. He was a French novelist, poet, and playwright, born on this day in 1828. Trivia – Jules Verne Jules Verne collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the […]
London: A batch of English writer Charles Dickens’s letters that have remained unseen and unpublished will go on display later today. The 11 letters include assorted invitation notes and insights into the author’s reading habits and writing projects as well as details about a trip to Switzerland written to a friend. In a letter dated February […]
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in between cultures and continents.” Gurnah was born in Tanzania in 1948 but moved to England at a young age. He has written 10 novels, […]
