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The DWL Lit Bites series is a way to aggregate literary news from around the interwebs and share them with you all. Watch this space every Friday at 4 pm.<\/p>\n
1. Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize this Tuesday for his novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em>. At approximately 700 pages, the novel is anything but brief but with sentences like “Reason is for the rich. We have madness,” the violence and skill of Brief History<\/em> pulls you right in. Enjoy an interview with the author<\/a> in the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2. Marlon James was the first Jamaican to have won the Man Booker and this year even the Nobel committee was feeling magnanimous by awarding a journalist with the Prize in Literature. Svetlana Alexievich is the 14th woman to be awarded the prize “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.\u201d Here’s everything you need to know<\/a> about her.<\/p>\n 3. Speaking of awards, a group of writers in India returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest the killing of notable scholar M M Kalburgi, who was also vice-chancellor of the Akademi. He was shot dead in his home on August 30 and the committee held no condolence ceremony. Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello readers! The DWL Lit Bites series is a way to aggregate literary news from around the interwebs and share them with you all. Watch this space every Friday at 4 pm. 1. Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize this Tuesday for his novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. At approximately 700 pages, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[603,602,606,604,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}