Tag: Literature

BNU launches second volume of ‘The Maya Tree’

Societies could not be understood without having deep understanding of their literature, former Chairperson Department of Literatures and Languages of Beaconhouse National University (BNU)...

Importance of literature emphasised at PAL

Writing is the embroidery of words. It is the intricacy and delicacy of one’s mind imprinted on paper. The scope of writing is ever...

Literature : no longer in

The demand for literature subjects in colleges and universities has decreased, Pakistan Today has learnt. From a period when literature was in high demand,...

Swedish poet Transtroemer wins the Nobel Literature Prize

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer was awarded the the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Transtroemer, 80, was honoured “because, through his condensed, translucent...

The Review – 3rd July, 2011 – Pakistan Today

Open publication - Free publishing - More arts The Review, Pakistan Today's current affairs magazine, speaks of the issues most relevant to us. Come to...

3-day literature conference to kick off

A 3-day international conference on literature and culture will kick off in Alhamra on Saturday 14 May under the banner of the Lahore Arts...

Two held for distributing blasphemous literature

Police have succeeded in arresting the suspects who were producing blasphemous literature and creating anarchy in Khokarki locality where Christian community has been residing...

Books not bombs at Karachi’s literature festival

KARACHI - Pakistan is hosting one of the world's youngest and fastest-growing literary festivals, a showcase of new talent where writers urge citizens to reverse the tide of extremism and global isolation. Now into a second year and determined to become an annual fixture on the international circuit, the Karachi Literature Festival portrays the softer face of a country more often associated with terrorism than award-winning prose.
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