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CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST ENGLISH PROSE STYLISTS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AND ARGUABLY OF ALL TIMES, V S NAIPAUL WAS A COLOSSUS WHO STRODE THE LITERARY REALM. HE WOVE A FICTIONAL LANDSCAPE AND WAS KNOWN TO SPIN MAGIC OUT OF WORDS, AND WAS EASILY IN THE LEAGUE OF LEGENDARY WRITERS LIKE CHARLES DICKENS, LEO TOLSTOY AND JOSEPH CONRAD. NAIPAUL WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 2001, WHERE HE HIGHLIGHTED ONLY HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY BRITAIN, AND THE LAND OF HIS ANCESTORS INDIA, BUT NEVER MENTIONED THE COUNTRY OF HIS BIRTH, TRINIDAD, PART OF THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS. THE GENRE OF HIS WRITING WAS FICTION AND NON-FICTION, ESPECIALLY NARRATIVISED HISTORY THAT INCLUDES SOME HISTORICAL RESEARCH BASED ON HIS TRAVELS. ACCORDING TO NAIPAUL, A NON-JUDGMENTAL OBSERVATION OF THE WORLD WAS A HALLMARK OF HIS WRITING. NAIPAUL WAS KNOWN FOR HIS VISION OF WRITING AND BELIEVED THAT EVERYTHING ELSE HAS TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO THIS GOAL. IN WHAT CONCERNS THE QUESTIONS THIS PAPER INTENDS TO ANSWER HERE ARE SOME OF THEM: 1. WHICH IS THE RELATION BETWEEN NAIPAUL'S WORKS AND BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY? 2. WHAT ARE THE DIFERENT MEANINGS OF NAIPAUL'S FREE SPIRIT? 3. WHY ARE VS NAIPAUL'S NOVELS A GRIM EVEN PESIMISTIC VIEW OF THE POST-COLONIAL WORLD? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article deals with two books, the subject of which was the life of the Czech resistance fighter Pravomil Raichl: the non-fiction publication by Jaroslav Čvančara Pravomil Raichl. Život na hranici smrti (Pravomil Raichl. Life on the Edge of Death, 2017), which presents Raichl's notable biography from a historiographical perspective (using historical sources and eyewitness accounts), and the novel by Petr Stančík Pravomil aneb Ohlušující promlčení (Pravomil or The Deafening Silence of Justice, 2021), which is inspired by the fate of the mentioned historical figure. The following article also tries to place both books in the context of the current perception of Czech modern history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a sampling of recently published picturebook biographies with noteworthy endpapers. First, we highlight scholarship related to picturebook biographies and peritextual features. Second, we present examples of three ways endpapers function, using nine picturebook biographies while also incorporating pedagogical suggestions related to the endpapers. Last, we explain the importance of noticing peritextual features in picturebook biographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Read‐alouds of picturebook biographies offer children engaging windows into the lives and work of famous (and sometimes not‐so‐famous) mathematicians to observe and discuss their ways of learning and doing mathematics—their mathematical practices. The Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs), although generally embodied in the work of successful mathematicians throughout the ages, were only recently identified and prescribed for US mathematics curricula. The authors provide a rationale for using the context of story to introduce the SMPs to elementary students and share picturebook Read‐Aloud Lesson Ideas as samples for inviting discussions about selected Standards. Three figures list additional biographies in the categories of Computer Science and Coding, Space Exploration, and Other Related Mathematics Fields and provide an analysis of two selected SMPs for each book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An artistic interpretation of historical facts is quite relevant in the literature and non-fiction of a post-totalitarian society. Prose works on historical themes are valuable and interesting in that they create an illusion for readers to be present in a certain period of historical time, and it is the artistic modeling of events that makes priceless facts of history completely disappear. The historical past is an inexhaustible material that word artists have been referring to for centuries, creating the best examples of fiction. Prose texts of historical subjects are perceived by each next generation in a new way, historical events and phenomena are interpreted from different angles, the activities of famous figures of the past are widely covered. Non-fiction literature is a kind of literature that is on the verge of artistry and documentary. The main non-fiction genres are a diary, autobiography, biography, memoirs, confession, letters, etc. On the one hand, non-fiction literature claims to recognize the author's subjective truth about him in her texts; on the other hand, only the reader can either, demonstrating full confidence in the author, call this text documentary, or admit the presence of poetry and aesthetics in the work and tilt the scales in the direction of artistry. The material for observation and research of the phenomenon of artistic modeling are works that allow us to trace the most common, in our opinion, models of correlation of historical and artistic consciousness in postmodern literature and non-fiction of a post-totalitarian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children's literature translations need to be treated like a work of art. The translator becomes the second writer. As an artist, the translator needs to be aware of the principles guiding children's literature writing. At the same time, the translator needs to familiarise themselves with translation strategies for children's literature. Similarly, children's biography translation requires the translator to focus not only on the fact that one is translating children's literature, but also that the story is non-fiction. Therefore, the translation process might be more challenging than general fiction translation. The aim of this article is to critically evaluate a children's biography translation that has been performed by the author. The research findings were that, although the translation may be rated as fair, it has some notable errors that might diminish the quality of the translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]