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South African-born Lindsey Collen, based for most of her writing years on the Indian Ocean Republic of Mauritius, has been propelled to fame in the postcolonial English-language sphere for twice having gained the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Africa region. Best known for her first winner, the breakthrough novel The Rape of Sita (1993, 1995, 2001), she has nevertheless also published several other works, notably in the local Kreol language. She is hailed there as an activist publicising advanced causes through the medium of her innovative short and long fictions, as this summary demonstrates afresh., Late in the 1980s an aspirant woman writer picked from the rotating stand in a second-hand bookshop an old paperback with a lurid cover and vaguely familiar title--or at least [...]

An introduction to the fiction and poetry in this issue is presented. A discussion of the material's arrangement, thematic interpretation, and categorization is also presented.

The development of the contemporary fiction novel is traced from its beginnings in the twentieth century to newer forms such as Thomas Mallon's. His novels such as 'Dewey Defeats Truman' and 'Henry and Clara', are a form of historical fiction.

In the book 'A Critic's Notebook', author Irving Howe concentrates on individual novel writers, the impact of some of their personal narratives on the minds of the readers, the aesthetic imagination and the true human emotions that generated the context and character of the novel. He remarks on their ability to express these inner visions to the readers in such a way as to maintain their interest and convey the thought tactfully. He has added his unique flavor while interpreting the works of other authors.

In 1996, Granta published the 'Best of Young American Novelists' issue, and this list has been famous ever since. The Twenty under Forty have had varying degrees of success, and [...]

Gay authors wrote many novels in 1991. Among the most notable gay novels were: Neil Bartlett's 'Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall,' Tom Spanbauer's 'The Man WhoFell in Love With the Moon,' Peter McGeHee's 'Boys Like Us' and Melvin Dixon's 'Vanishing Rooms.'

One of the pleasures of going back to a talented writer's early work is finding the promising failure, the intriguingly bad book. Alice McDermott's first novel, A Bigamist's Daughter (1982), [...]

The problems faced by the translator while translating the story of Medea are outlined. The story is taken from the ancient Greece and is known as one of the most widely translated Greek tragedy.

On Not Being a Poet Last year a novelist friend of mine mentioned that he'd soon be coming to New York to recite a poem of his choosing at a [...]

Randall Jarrell once wrote, in praise of William Carlos Williams, 'When you have read Paterson you know for the rest of your life what it is like to be a [...]