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As Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird turns 61, a look at why the novel still attracts criticism over its take on racism
Fp Staff • 4 years agoFor long, Lee's story has been criticised for its 'white saviour' narrative, a debate that recently resurfaced following the decision of an English school teacher in Edinburgh to cancel the novel from his curriculum for being allegedly 'problematic.'
Pulitzer Prize 2021: Megha Rajagopalan wins for reportage on China's detention camps for Muslims
• 4 years agoMegha Rajagopalan partnered with two contributors, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek, for the report. The 2021 Pulitzer Prize win is the first for BuzzFeed.
Pulitzer Prize 2021: Author Louise Erdrich, playwright Katori Hall among winners of the coveted award
• 4 years agoIt was the first Pulitzer for Erdrich, who turned 67 this week and has been a published author for more than 40 years. Her previous honors include a National Book Award for The Round House and the National Book Critics Circle prize for LaRose.
Oprah Winfrey, Lionsgate to adapt The New York Times Magazine’s The 1619 Project for TV
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe 1619 Project launched in August 2019 in an issue of The New York Times Magazine to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the American continent
Pulitzer Prize 2020: Associated Press photographers win Feature Photography award for their coverage of the Kashmir lockdown
• 5 years agoThe honor for the photographers is the AP’s 54th Pulitzer Prize. The news cooperative last won a Pulitzer last year for stories, photos and video on the conflict in Yemen and the ensuing humanitarian crisis.
Pulitzer Prize 2020: From Colson Whitehead's second Pulitzer to first audio reporting award, full list of winners
Fp Staff • 5 years agoFull list of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Reportage of sparse policing in Alaska villages wins Pulitzer Prize; coverage of Kashmir clampdown, Hong Kong protests gets photography awards
• 5 years agohe Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating the sparse policing of remote Alaska villages, as a delayed awards ceremony recognized writing, photos and — for the first time — audio reporting
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: Stephen Greenblatt, Suketu Mehta among speakers on last day
Fp Staff • 5 years agoSocial Media Has Divided Society will draw a curtain on the 2020 edition of Zee JLF. It will be a debate between authors, poets and journalists such as John Lancaster, Nilanjana Roy, Rana Ayyub, Marcus du Sautoy and Faye D'Souza, moderated by Sonia Singh
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: Abhijit Banerjee, Sarah Parcak to discuss economics, archaeology on Day 4
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe Travel Session promises to be an interesting panel with well-known authors such as Katie Hickman, Howard Jacobson, Elizabeth Gilbert and Hessler, moderated by JLF co-director William Dalrymple
Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: Elizabeth Gilbert, Dexter Filkins among names featured in second list of speakers
Fp Staff • 5 years agoBestselling author Asne Seierstad and the former Minister of European Affairs for Portugal and author of The Dawn of Eurasia, Bruno Macaes are also scheduled to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival