Aspen Words made a splash in the publishing world Wednesday, announcing a new literary prize for influential works of fiction with a social impact. The inaugural $35,000 award will be conferred on the ...

Jamil Jan Kochai was named winner of the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize Wednesday evening in New York City for “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” a powerful short-story collection ...

Aspen Words announced on Monday the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize finalists. The finalists are: “Calling for a Blanket Dance” by Oscar Hokeah, “How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water” by Angie Cruz, ...

THOMAS Roebuck compiled ‘An English and Hindoostanee naval dictionary of technical terms and sea phrases’. First published in 1811 from Calcutta (now Kolkata), it was Urdu’s first dictionary of ...

Though we use many words quite frequently, we aren’t aware that many of them have roots in literature. Here's a look at some words you never knew came from literature. Words are the single distinctive ...