• Myriam Tadessé: On the Imbalance of Feminine and Masculine Energies

    Myriam Tadessé: On the Imbalance of Feminine and Masculine Energies

    Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival.   Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
  • Knotted Grief: An Intimate Rendition of Loss And Longing

    Knotted Grief: An Intimate Rendition of Loss And Longing

    Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
  • What did you do when it happened?

    What did you do when it happened?

    The car crash in a Paris tunnel. The fallout. The updates. I remember only Cartoon Network being unaffected. I sat in my pyjamas with a bowl of Shreddies and watched Cow and Chicken. Gran had just had the carpets washed, so when the second plane hit I was removing...
  • Dubai-based Dreamwork Collective launches poignant novel by Pakistani author Safinah Danish Elahi

    Dubai-based The Dreamwork Collective launches poignant novel by Pakistani author Safinah Danish Elahi

    Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
  • Reading Like a Writer: Learning Craft from South Asian Masters

    A Live Online Workshop with Namrata Saturday, March 14 Time: 11 AM IST Live Online on Zoom | 2 Hours There is a popular belief that writing has no rules. And yet, strong stories are rarely accidental. They are built. Carefully. Intentionally. Through choices about silence, structure, interiority, emotional...
  • Celebrating a feminist lens on human and environmental degradation

    Celebrating a feminist lens on human and environmental degradation

    ‘In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems – including the injured stranger – and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love...
  • Untitled

    Untitled

    Will you? leave me she asked and I answered will you? Leave? Us? the partings the ones that refuse to tear sundering our leavetaking unbearable waves that threatenpromise to drown forgetting easier easier than unlearning our loving learning learning to unlove again to tip toe into hearts made different...
  • Crafting Fear: Unmasking the Psychopathic Character

    Crafting Fear: Unmasking the Psychopathic Character

    What drives an audience’s fascination with psychopaths? Why do characters who are completely devoid of empathy, like Hannibal Lecter or Dexter, command our attention? A panel discussion featuring British author Araminta Hall and Egyptian novelist Mirna Al-Mahdi delved into these questions at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF...
  • On Silencing Creativity and Struggle for Free Thought

    On Silencing Creativity and Struggle for Free Thought

    Rahman Abbas is the winner of India’s highest literary award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, for his fourth novel, Rohzin in 2018. He is the author of eleven books, including seven novels. Rahman has also won four State Akademi Awards. His writings have been translated into English, German, French, Hindi, and discussed in...
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