Last month, when the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards were announced, one stood out from the rest: “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel. While the other nominated books are what, ...

A Russian teacher allegedly killed a friend in a drunken argument over literary genres, investigators have said. The pair engaged in an animated discussion on the merits of poetry over prose during a ...

Known as khaka-nigari in Urdu, sketch-writing is a prose genre that has become very popular in Pakistani Urdu literature in the last few decades. This popularity owes much to the light-hearted and ...

SHORT story is Urdu’s most popular prose genre. Its counterpart in Urdu poetry, ghazal, has faced many challenges and adversaries and, of late, ghazal’s reign is threatened by a steep rise of modern ...

The publication of the story "Privychnoye Delo" (Habitual Thing) in 1966 placed Belov's name among the foremost authors in the "countryside prose" genre VOLOGDA, December 5 (Itar-Tass) — Writer ...