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400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare’s plays, including one that sells for $1,500. Scholars believe that between 200-300 copies still survive from the late 1623 release of

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Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Haugesund in 1959, Fosse has an expansive oeuvre of work that includes 40 plays, multiple novels, poetry and essay collections, children’s books and translations. His works rank high

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Most comprehensive book on Topkapı Palace

The two-volume “Topkapı Palace” book, which features all the details of Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace, has been introduced. Güller Karahüseyin, Head of the National Palaces Museology and Promotion Department, said that the book consists of 29 articles written by well-known names in the

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Prague Embassy initiates Nazım Hikmet documentary

With the initiatives of Türkiye’s Prague Ambassador Egemen Bağış, legendary Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet’s life and photographs, taken in 1956 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia at the time, and found in the Prague National Theater archives, have been made into a

AI: A story to tell

For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity, according to AP. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer, urging AI companies

Texts of Özer Kabaş

Salt presents a new e-publication, Montage or Synthesis: Texts of Özer Kabaş, as part of the institution’s ongoing research focusing on art in Turkey from the 1950s to the present. Gathering a selection of texts written by the artist, educator, and writer Özer

Tributes to Cormac McCarthy

Tributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89. McCarthy’s novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films. Fellow author Stephen King called

Virginia Woolf’s Debut Novel Digitised

Virginia Woolf’s personal copy of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, digitised for the first time. The book was rediscovered in 2021, having mistakenly been housed in the science section of the University of Sydney library for 25 years. It is the