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South Korean author Baek Se-hee, famed for her memoir *I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki*, has passed away at 35. Her organ donation reportedly saved five lives.

Rana Safvi: ‘When narrative and popular history is written, misinformation reduces’

The historian-novelist on her debut fiction novel ‘A Firestorm in Paradise’ on Bahadur Shah Zafar’s Delhi and the 1857 uprising, how Shahjahanabad was not Purani Delhi, and inaccuracies in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’

Navina Najat Haidar: ‘Gandhian architect Laurie Baker adapted the jali to modern buildings, keeping in mind the issues of climate, environment and sustainability’

Art historian Navina Najat Haidar, the Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah curator in charge of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, talks about her new book 'Jali: Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture'.

Author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India over 2010 speech

Roy, 61, won the Booker Prize for fiction in 1997. She is also an outspoken political and rights activist and regularly writes in Indian and foreign publications.

Could the next great author be a robot? We asked (Human) writers

Recently, editors at three science fiction magazines said they had been flooded with AI-generated fiction submissions.

Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter' dies at 82

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press.

Novelist reveals she is alive 2 years after faking her own death

Susan Meachen, a Tennessee-based romance novelist, has revealed she is alive two years after her daughter announced her death by suicide.

RIP 'City of Joy' writer Dominique Lapierre; a look at his career, some of his best-selling books

French writer Dominique Lapierre, who was celebrated for his novels about the World War II struggle to liberate Paris and depicting a life of hardship in a Kolkata slum, died on December 4 at the age of 91. Born on July 30, 1931, in Chatelaillon, Lapierre has sold about 50 million copies of the six books he wrote in collaboration with the American writer Larry Collins — the most famous being Is Paris Burning?

Rani Mukerji's tell-all autobiography to be released on her birthday next year

The book is a "deeply personal and disarmingly honest" account of Mukerji's journey as an actor in the film industry.

Booker Prize winning novelist Dame Hilary Mantel died aged 70

Mantel won the Booker twice - for Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The books were filmed for TV.

Salman Rushdie off the ventilator and talking, day after attack

The man accused of attacking Rushdie on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat centre, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime

Attack on author Salman Rushdie can't be called correct: Muslim cleric

The Mumbai-born controversial author, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing ”The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed by a 24-year-old man on Friday while he was being introduced at an event in Western New York in the US.

Novelist Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in then Bombay before moving to the United Kingdom, has long faced death threats for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses. Some Muslims said the book contained blasphemous passages

Tribute | Subhadra Sen Gupta, the writer who made history fun for India’s children

The 2015 Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 2020 Tata Trusts Big Little Book Award winner felt that history books turn people into cardboard characters - and if you flesh them out, children will listen and learn.

Passion to Win: The story of Nandan Nilekani

Through the course of this 4-part special series, we will bring you the stories of 12 entrepreneurs who have disrupted their industries through their ideas and innovation. They have spurred new trends which is an inspiration for all.

5 things every non-technical founder must know

Are you a non-technical founder building a product in the tech space? You‘re not alone! There are tons just like you who‘ve successfully built some of the most widely used apps today.

Weekender: Up, close & personal with Ashwin Sanghi

Watch CNBC-TV18's Mangalam Maloo in conversation with an Author, Ashwin Sanghi in a special series of Weekender.

Don't know which social media to use for marketing? Know now

I just read an article about how this entrepreneur grew their business literally from zero to a million dollars on Instagram. And then I read another where this entrepreneur built their brand on Snapchat. And another on how someone leveraged LinkedIn to generate consistent leads.

Notion Press` Accelerator Program Turns Authorpreneurs Out of Authors

If writing a book is an uphill task, marketing it is jumping straight into the abyss. Traditionally, writers were storytellers whose work ...

Obama to honour Jhumpa Lahiri at White House

First Lady Michelle Obama would also be present at the awards ceremony along with other recipients of the humanities medal to be held at the White House tomorrow (Friday morning as per Indian Standard Time).

Giving In. Not Giving Up!

There are possibly two key phases in an entrepreneur‘s journey. First, when one wants to get started. Not just a ‘leap of faith‘ but the actual ‘leap‘. The other is when one has started and wants to make it happen. Make it happening.

'Fifty Shades' author debuts at No. 1 on earnings list

James, a former television executive, surpassed regulars on the list, including James Patterson, Danielle Steel and Stephen King, with estimated earnings of USD 95 million in the year to June 2013, thanks to the titillating trilogy.

Now, teenagers take to fiction writing with gusto

For a very long time, young adult fiction in India was all about "adults" writing for the "young". However, now teenagers seem to be in no mood to let that practise continue with 15 to 16 year olds turning authors and deciding to take charge of stories that talk about them.

Rowling set to unveil new Harry Potter venture

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling will unveil her latest venture involving the boy wizard on Thursday, ending fevered speculation among fans about what comes next.

Politicians: Visiting the lands of 'change pioneers'

In a special series on CNBC-TV18's Ministers of Change, Shereen Bhan unravels the distinction between hype and hyperbole, and gets an on ground report on new models of inclusivity, reform and development.