Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3. He was 88. His publisher, Kodansha, announced the death on Monday. It did not specify a cause or say where he had died. Mr. Oe (pronounced OH-ay) was award
Toni Morrison spoke to Razia Iqbal at the Hay Festival in 2014
Award-winning US science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin has died, aged 88, her family said. The best-selling writer passed away on Monday at her home in Portland, Oregon, after a period of ill health. Le Guin's books melded dragons and wizards with spaceships to tackle earth-bound problems of race, gender and class.
Umberto Eco in Bologna, Italy, last year. As a semiotician, Mr. Eco studied signs and symbols.Credit...Roberto Serra/Iguana Press, via Getty Images Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday at his home in Milan. He was 84. His Italian publisher, Bompi
Umberto Eco's last book - Numero Zero - was published last year The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, has died aged 84. According to a family member who asked not to be identified, he died late on Friday from cancer. The Name of the Rose was made into a film in 1986 starring Scottish actor Sean Connery. Eco, who also wrote the novel Foucault
Harper Lee wrote her iconic novel To Kill A Mockingbird in 1960 Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape in the Deep South. It sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and 55 years after it was published, in 2015, she released th
Guenter Grass: "I have always considered myself a writer and a citizen" Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize winner and author of The Tin Drum, has died aged 87. His publisher said he passed away at a clinic in Luebeck on Monday morning. Born in what was then Danzig, Grass served in the German military in World War Two and published his breakthrough anti-Nazi novel, The Tin Drum, in 1959.
Nick Higham looks back at the life and career of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died in Mexico aged 87, his family says. Garcia Marquez was considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors, best known for his masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude. The 1967 novel sold more than 30 million copies and he was awarde
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