{"id":2582,"date":"2015-10-23T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2015-10-23T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:16:28","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/dwl-lit-bites-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites Oct 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DWL Lit Bites is DWL Blog\u2019s weekly roundup of literary news. Send us your suggestions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/desiwriterslounge\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, tweet at us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desi_writers\" target=\"_blank\">@desi_writers<\/a> or leave a comment!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello readers! We have\u00a0some literary links from around the interwebs to kickstart your weekend reading.<\/p>\n<p>1. The British novelist Doris Lessing was born on Oct 22, 1919, in Persia. Author of some of the best science fiction and feminist novels (<em>Canopus in Argos, The Golden Notebook<\/em>), she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 after being told many times that she will not win. We revisit Alexandra Schwartz&#8217;s brief profile of the writer for <em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/on-doris-lessing-and-not-saying-thank-you\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On Doris Lessing and Not Saying Thank You.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. It seems like we cannot stop retelling and readapting the Bard. This October saw the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131567999\" target=\"_blank\">Macbeth with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard<\/a>. But why does Shakespeare live on in our cultural consciousness? Stefanie Peters at The Millions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2015\/10\/tell-it-again-on-rewriting-shakespeare.html\" target=\"_blank\">has some answers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0The jury of the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has announced an 11-book longlist for the annual award. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/dsc-prize-2016-longlist-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">our coverage<\/a> of the 2016 DSC Prize.<\/p>\n<p>4. The Jaipur Literature Festival has <a href=\"https:\/\/jaipurliteraturefestival.org\/2016-zee-jaipur-literature-festival-annual-writing-competition\" target=\"_blank\">opened its annual writing competition<\/a>. The contest&#8217;s 10 winners will get the chance to attend the festival and report on its activities for the festival&#8217;s official blog.<\/p>\n<p>5. Meanwhile, writers in India have continued their protest against &#8220;rising intolerance&#8221; in the country. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/ahead-of-sahitya-akademi-meet-writers-protest-in-delhi-against-rising-intolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\">the latest on the protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWL Lit Bites is DWL Blog\u2019s weekly roundup of literary news. Send us your suggestions on Facebook, tweet at us @desi_writers or leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[609,614,613,615,446,608,612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582"}],"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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}