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[ad_1] Going through Kunal Basu’s recent collection of stories titled ‘Filmi Stories’ is like going through a part-by-part manuscript of a Bollywood film that you simply cannot get enough of. More than a dozen years after ‘The Japanese Wife’ took to the bookstands and captured our hearts, Basu makes sure to leave an undeniable mark in the hearts of his readers and he does so brilliantly with his words and the rawness of the characters in the short story collection. The eight stories in the collection, like Vishal Bharadwaj rightly comments, “deserves an adaptation.” In an Exclusive conversation with News18, Kunal Basu who can most certainly be termed as one of the ‘most looked up to writers of our generation’ talks about his recent work ‘Filmi Stories’ and much more. Excerpts from the interview- It’s been quite a while since you penned down a collection of stories. What prompted you to work on one again? The Japanese Wife collection of stories was published in 2008. Since then, I’...

[ad_1] Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. According to international media reports, Fosse was honoured for “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable”, the awarding body, the Swedish Academy, said on Thursday. One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Fosse, 64, has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the academy who announced the prize in Stockholm, said he reached Fosse by telephone to inform him of the prize and that the writer was driving in the countryside and promised to drive home carefully. Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel literature committee, said Fosse’s work is rooted “in the language and nature of his Norwegian background”. Last year, French author Annie Ernaux won the prize for what the Swedish Academy called “the courage and clinical acuity” of books rooted in her sm...

[ad_1] The plan approved earlier this year by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to put skyscrapers and new stadiums in the heart of the Jingu Gaien green district has become increasingly controversial. "I'm strongly opposed to the Jingu Gaien redevelopment plan," Murakami said on his Sunday radio show. "Please leave that pleasant jogging course full of greenery and the lovely Jingu Stadium as it is..." Author Haruki Murakami says he’s strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a historic and beloved Tokyo park district that would remove his favorite jogging path and tear down the nearly century-old baseball stadium where he was inspired to become a novelist. The plan approved earlier this year by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to put skyscrapers and new stadiums in the heart of the Jingu Gaien green district has become increasingly controversial. Followers of baseball and rugby history are opposed to it, as well as conservationists and civil groups who say the project has ad...